Appeal for support to riots – hit people in Assam

Since Friday, July 20 when the orgy of violence began in lower Assam and Kokrajhar town more than 170,000 people have fled their homes, with at least 500 villages belonging to both Bodos and Bangladeshi immigrants in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts reduced to cinders. In relief camps, overcast skies, billowing smoke, and pale faces of thousands of people huddled in groups spoke of the scale of the human tragedy, inviting comparisons with the last time such killings had occurred, in 2008, when 60 people were butchered and more than one lakh displaced in the violence between rogue elements among Bodos and Bangladeshi immigrants. On Tuesday, July 24 inspector-general of


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More Bodies found, fear grips State
Just when the four districts under Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) were limping back to normal after ethnic riots left 56 people dead, police found more bodies in Chirang and Kokrajhar on Sunday August 5, creating panic and taking the toll to 60. While two bodies were found in Kokrajhar, two others were recovered in Chirang. A mob attacked bus passengers in retaliation around 10am in Chirang wounding some. At least 15 abandoned houses were gutted in Kokrajhar on Saturday while three were injured when a radio explosive went off in Baksa district of BTC. The violence took place even as relief camp inmates were sent back to their villages amid tight security. With fears of renewed violence, indefinite curfew was clamped down on Chirang while Kokrajhar police are restricting the entry of vehicles to avoid fresh flare-ups.
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