Planned Ethnic Cleansing Of Muslims Going On In Assam.

[ghulam muhammed]

'Planned ethnic cleansing of Muslims’ going on in Assam: Mumbai Muslim leaders

Mumbai: Muslim leaders in Mumbai have termed the ongoing killings of minority community in Assam as ‘planned ethnic cleansing of Muslims.’ They demanded intervention of the central government as they said the state government of Tarun Gogoi has ‘virtually failed to protect its innocent citizens.’ The Muslim leaders also condemned branding Bengali speaking Indian citizens as ‘illegal immigrants or Bangladeshi settlers’.

They urged the central government to immediately take strong and decisive action to control the burning of Muslim villages and killing of members of the community as the Gogoi-led state government has virtually failed to protect its innocent citizens. The community leaders have termed ‘tagging Indian citizens who have been living in Assam for centuries as “illegal immigrants or Bangladeshi settlers” most unfortunate’.

The NGO heads have also decried the unbalanced reporting by some media houses in the Kokrajhar – Dhubri violence which are deliberately trying to show the Muslim victim as “illegal settlers”. They said some media reporting are far from the truth and biased. When Muslims were attacked, killed and driven away from their homes by the same Bodo tribal in 1993-94 Kokrajhar riots, they got to settle in other places with government permission – by the time they have built their villages. But later following the declaration of Bodo Territorial (Autonomous) Council (BTC) an outcry is raised that these Muslims are newcomers on the land and thus afresh ethnic cleansing is launched to avail maximum area for BTC.

The speakers pointed out that these riots are a recurrence of those that happened in 1982-83 at Nelli and 1993-94 in Kokrajhar. They urged the central and the state governments to take urgent steps to halt such communal flare ups which cause untold suffering to the local Assamese Muslims. Muslim NGOs have strongly demanded that the riot victims who have been ousted from their villages be rehabilitated in their original villages. It is time to find out a permanent amicable solution to the Assam’s citizenship problem sooner than later, argued the Muslim leader in their press statement.

http://twocircles.net/2012jul27/planned ... im+News%29

[ghulam muhammed]

Assam violence a planned massacre, "Not a riot"

The Muslim village had just woken up in preparation for sehri (a Ramzan ritual of a pre-dawn breakfast before a daytime fast), when dozens of men in military fatigues opened fire in their direction. “There was utter chaos,” recounts Subhan, “and most of us ran towards the school building right at the entrance of our village.” A police party arrived three hours later and took two injured people to hospital. The rest were so scared, says Subhan, nobody dared return to the village. From the school building, they saw their entire village go up in flames.

At about 11.30 am, they were attacked again. That evening, a platoon of the Assam Police’s 7th Battalion was despatched to Dhuramari.

The same night, the village found itself under attack again. “Bullets were flying all over. They kept firing throughout the night. We were very scared, but we thought the police [firing back in our defence] would force them to retreat,” says Asghar Ali, a private school teacher. By midnight, however, the police had run out of both ammunition and courage. “They said they would leave by the first light,” says Ali, “They asked us to run away and save our lives.”

Thinking that an escape in the darkness of the night would be too chaotic and risky, the men did not break the news to their families. It is not clear how many people had taken refuge in the school building, but the number ran into hundreds. “Throughout the night,” says Islamuddin, another villager, “I was in touch with the police, but nobody came to rescue us.”

The moment the platoon left, the people of Dhuramari slipped out towards the River Gaurang. “I knew there was a boat anchored at one spot,” says Ali, “and I took them there.” Upon touching ground on the other side, they found paramilitary forces standing there with Kokrajhar’s police chief. They could have come to Dhuramari’s rescue, says Ali, but did not. So he and the rest walked on and sought refuge in a relief camp in the neighbouring district of Dhubri.

The day the Dhuramari villagers left their homes, a group of Muslims met Assam’s Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Guwahati and apprised him of sophisticated weapons being used to target Muslims in Kokrajhar and other districts. “Gogoi said there were hardly any weapons around,” recalls one of the delegation’s members, Mazedur Rahman. Gogoi, he says, did not even appear concerned about how pathetic conditions were in relief camps. “He dismissed us by saying that it takes time to make arrangements,” he says.

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/ ... e-massacre

[ghulam muhammed]

Fleeing violence, Assam's displaced face disease, death in camps

GUWAHATI: Hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid, overcrowded camps in Assam desperately need food, water and medicines after fleeing some of the worst communal violence in a decade, officials and aid workers said on Monday.

At least 12 people, including four children, have died and thousands are sick with diseases such as diahorrea and malaria caused by poor conditions in government-run camps in Assam , where up to 400,000 people have taken refuge.

"We are in a state of high alert," said Assam's health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. "People in the camps are suffering from diahorrea, dysentery, malaria and high fever. We are concerned about the condition of the babies and pregnant women."

Violence between Bodo tribes people and Muslim settlers from neighbouring Bangladesh erupted on July 20 when unidentified men killed four Bodo youths. In retaliation, armed Bodos - which dominate Assam's Kokrajhar district - attacked Muslims, suspecting them of being behind the deaths.

The fighting has tested the ability of India's security forces to restore order in Assam, famed for its tea plantations and home to the constituency of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who visited the state in late July to appeal for calm.

So far 61 people have died - some hacked to death with machetes, while dozens of villages have been razed to the ground, forcing both Bodos and Muslims to flee to schools and community centres which have been converted into relief camps.

Sarma said around 8,000 children under two-years-old are sick, while hundreds of others have tested positive for malaria. There are also around 4,000 pregnant women in the camps who need medical support, he added.

Full report at:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 377234.cms

[ghulam muhammed]

The recent violence in Assam is Planned and systematic

Amid the blame games among the governments and the political parties, the tragedy in Assam still persists. As per the official data 77 have been killed and more than four lakh people including the women and children are displaced from their homes. It is said that 4000 women are pregnant, who do not have access to proper medical care and food in the refugee camps. 14,000 children between the age 0-2 years are living in the camps.

These clashes are results of a deadly combination of systematic design of ethnic cleansing to wipe out non-Bodo population from BTAD area coupled with inaction on the part of state government. It is a plan to force the creation of a separate Bodoland or justify it in terms of population pattern (by increasing the percentage of Bodo population within BTAD area) by driving non-Bodos away from a vast belt between the Sunkosh river in the west along Bhutan to Sadiya in the northeast at the Arunachal-Assam junction.

Systematic attempts through violent clashes were made to drive out non-Bodos since 1993-94 when the largest number of Bengali Hindus, Muslims, Adivasis and even Assamese people were driven out of BTAD areas. Shockingly the victims of 1993-94 Bodoland riots are still living in ‘camps’ without proper rehabilitation even after 20 years of that incident. Then, in 2008, in Darrang and Udalguri districts similar orchestrated violence was perpetrated on Muslims living in Bodo dominated areas.

Historically, Muslims from undivided Bengal and Assam (parts of which now fall in Bangladesh) migrated to Assam in early 20th Century due various reasons, sometime encouraged by the governments of the day to increase agricultural production under “Grow more food” schemes.For generations, they lived here in Assam, adopted “Assamese” as their mother-tongue. Irony is that if you deduct the number of these migrants from Assamese speaking population, Assamese is a minority language today. Now, it has become an easy target to term any poor, lungi-wearing, Bengali speaking Muslim in Assam as “Bangladeshi”.

It is a BJP-led NDA government’s creation to appease gun-trotting Bodo militants and by including Muslim villages under the BTAD they planned the misery of the Muslims living in that area.

Today, the situation turning ugly, everyone is talking about Bangladeshi because it appeals to the rightist elements and the poor Muslims are the easiest targets.

As I said the whole “illegal migrants” is a stick to beat the Muslims in Assam. The BTAD is ruled by the BPF Party, they are coalition partner of Congress in Assam government. So, law and order machinery is in their hands. Have you heard till today – after two weeks of violence – any Bangladeshi illegal immigrant was arrested by police in connection with inciting violence? This speaks for itself. The BTAD Chief Hangram Mohilary started this campaign but he being the Chief of Administration could not nab a single Bangladeshi in all these days but made only wild allegation in media.

For many months prior to the violence, all non-Bodo communities in the Bodo-dominated areas have been complaining of extortion of money, kidnapping for ransom by the former and present insurgents since quite some time.

It is easy to term Muslims as ‘illegal migrants’ and hence this invented ‘struggle between the Indians and the migrants’. Interestingly when Bengali speaking Hindus were targeted in 1993-94, BJP did not say such thing. In Assam if you are Bengali speaking Muslim you are “infiltrator” but if you are Bengali Hindu then you are ‘refugee’ – this dichotomy of the BJP and the right-wing sections has now invented a new discourse of “struggle between Indian origin people and the Illegal migrants from Bangladesh”.

READ FULL ARTICLE :-

http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full ... guest/home

[ghulam muhammed]

Conflict country

This is a migration very few know of or care about. But a staggering 1 million people may have been forced out of their homes in the northeast in the past 20 years alone. And the displacement continues. Whenever it is geography, not shared history or culture that binds men, the coexistence is bound to be tremulous and uneasy, reports Anand Soondas

The modern exodus, of course, began being chronicled in detail 50 years ago. In 1960, a few lakh Bengalis from Assam migrated to neighbouring West Bengal after fights erupted over implementation of the Assam Official Language Act. The new legislation made Assamese the sole official tongue of the state. In 1979, about 20,000 Bengalis were displaced from Meghalaya following attacks by Khasis, and in the 1980s, a mind-boggling 150,000 Bengali and Nepali-speaking people quit Assam because of turmoil created by the six-year anti-foreigner movement launched by the All Assam Students' Union and other organizations. Again, in 1980, close to 100,000 Bengalis were kicked out of Tripura even as Biharis around the same time faced the brunt of Manipuri nationalism . One of the biggest migrations was that of 50,000 Reangs from Mizoram in 2003

The 4 lakh-odd refugees in protection camps spread across Lower Assam right now are just the latest victims in a region that has fought wars against each others for hundreds of years. The Bodos have battled Muslims, but they have also locked horns with Adivasis and Nepalis. The Mizos have taken on Brus, the Karbis have gone against Dimasas, and Nagas have been at the throats of Manipuris.

Refugee Watch, a journal that tracks internal displacement, says in its December 2011 issue that clashes between the Santhals and Bodos which erupted in the early 1990s turned an estimated 250,000 people homeless . "As of December 2005, around 110,000 people remained in relief camps in Assam's Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon subdivisions a decrease of 40,000 people since 2003," the paper says. "However, the displaced have not been able to return to their former villages as they remain occupied, mainly by Bodo communities."

1960: Lakhs of Bengalis from Assam migrate to neighbouring West Bengal after violence erupts over the implementation of the Assam Official Language Act. The new legislation makes Assamese the sole official language of the state

1979: Almost 20,000 Bengalis are displaced from Meghalaya following attacks by Khasis

1980s: About 150,000 Bengali and Nepali-speaking people quit Assam because of turmoil created by the sixyear anti-foreigner movement launched by All Assam Students' Union and other organisations

1980s: Around 800 Biharis and Nepalis flee Manipur after Assam's anti-foreigner campaign spreads to the tiny state

1980s: Almost 100,000 Bengalis are displaced in Tripura following ethnic violence between Bengalis and tribals

1987: About 2,700 Nepalis are displaced from Meghalaya following land disputes with tribals

1992: Around 3,000 Nepalis quit Meghalaya following clashes between Khasis and non-tribals during Dussehra

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... xistence/2

[ghulam muhammed]

First things first: thrice as many Muslims have been killed in Assam in July-August than Hindu Bodos whose cause the BJP is so passionately advocating nationally. Some 56 Muslims lost their lives, compared to 17 on the Bodo side. Rampaging Bodos also mistook two Bengali Hindus for members of the minority community and shot them, but these two murders are still a state secret. The official death toll, 84, includes the nine unidentified bodies rotting in the police morgues.

“The burning question today is: will the Bodo terrorists again get away with murder as they have always done in the past, or will they be made to pay for their heinous crimes against humanity?”

The nexus between BPF lawmakers—some are now in the dock for the anti-Muslim pogrom—and BJP leaders ranging from Guwahati MP Bijoya Chakraborty to L.K. Advani and Nitin Gadkari is an undeniable reality.

Bodos comprise a little over six per cent of the state’s population but are demanding 50 per cent of Assam for the Bodoland of their dreams. Muslims comprise over 30 per cent of Assam’s population. Yet they have so far displayed exemplary patience despite grave provocations. What will happen if Muslims and other victimised communities unite and retaliate?”

Wajahat Habibullah, one of India’s most respected civil servants who now heads the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), has given the prime minister in writing that there is every danger of the Muslims in BTAD becoming militants in the future if their security is not ensured.

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?282078

[ghulam muhammed]

Assam won’t return to normal unless arms are seized: Speakers at a seminar

New Delhi: Intellectuals at a seminar here at Gandhi Peace Foundation said that the situation in Assam won’t improve unless arms are seized from Bodos. While the Bodo treaty was signed in 2003, arms from former Bodo militants and other illegal arms have not yet been seized by the government.

Civil rights activist Mahtab Alam, who has recently visited violence-hit districts of Assam and relief camps, said the situation in Assam is explosive and if proper attention was not given it could go out of control. He said the same forces are working there who have been involved in communal riots across the country. He said that according to a planned strategy, Bodos are being used against Muslims.

President of Students For Resistance (SFR) group, Mirtunjay Kumar holding Hindutva forces responsible for Assam violence said there is no Hindu-Muslim issue there. The fact is Bodos are tribes who are not Hindus. He said tribes are being used against Muslims - the fact which Bodos have not started to admit. He said Hindutva forces are spreading rumors and pushing Bodos against Muslims. He said media was silent when Muslims were being killed in Assam, but when people from northeast started fleeing from different parts of the country the media woke up and gave it prime time coverage. He asked as to why 14 Muslims were thrown out of train from Bangalore to Guwahati, and who were behind this incident.

http://twocircles.net/2012sep01/assam_w ... im+News%29

[qutub_mamajiwala]

RSS school's Muslim boy tops Assam 10th boards

Overcoming financial hurdles, a waiter's son in Guwahati topped the Assam class X board examination, the results of which were declared on Tuesday.
Sarfaraz Hussain, 16, a student of Sankardev Sishu Niketan, a cluster of schools run under the RSS- affiliated Vidya Bharati, scored 590 out of 600 marks (98.3% ) to clinch the top slot. About four lakh students

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 528345.cms