VIOLENCE IN ASSAM

By TAWISH SHARMAwww.facebook.com/tawish

• INTRODUCTION

•HISTORY

•BACKGROUND

•THE VIOLENCE

• ISSUES

•REPERCUSSIONS

•CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

• STARTED IN BTAD ON 20 JUL

2012• INDIGENOUS BODOS AND

MIGRANTS OF BANGLADESHI ORIGIN

• 77 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES

• 4,00,000 PEOPLE DISPLACED

• 270 RELIEF CAMPS ESTD.

• NATIONWIDE EXODUS OF NE

INDIANS

HISTORY• ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION : BEFORE &

AFTER 1971 WAR• MORE AMT OF MIGRATION OF

BENGALI MUSLIMS• NELLIE MASSACRE : NAGAON DISTT.

‘AASU’ AGAINST BANGLADESHI (BENGALI) MUSLIMS

STARTED AT NELLIE VILL, 18 FEB 1983

AASU AGAINST FOREIGN NATIONAL’S NAMES IN ELECTORAL ROLLS

IMMIGRANTS WENT OUT TO WORK, ASSURED BY POLICE

WHOLE VILL SURROUNDED BY A MOB, AROUND 5000 PEOPLE (MOSTLY WOMEN & CHILDREN) MASSACRED

BACKGROUND

• 06 JUL 12 – 02 MUSLIMS KILLED BY

BODOS • REACTION : MUSLIMS KILL 04 BODOS

BY SNATCHING THEM FROM POLICE’S HANDS

• VIOLENCE IN KOKRAJHAR & SURROUNDING DISTT STARTS ON 20 JUL

• AROUND 44 KILLED BY 23 JUL; MANY HOUSES BURNT, MAJORITY HOMELESS

• 23 JUL : PM INSTRUCTS CM, GOGOI TO RESTORE PEACE

• VIOLENCE ERUPTED IN KOKRAJHAR DISTT

• BODOS TARGETED BENGALI MUSLIMS; RETALIATION

• 24 JUL : CENTRAL GOVT DEPLOYS PARA MIL FORCES AND 13 COLNS OF IA.

• 44 WERE ALREADY KILLED BY THE TIME FORCES WERE DEPLOYED

• SHOOT ON SIGHT AT KOKRAJHAR• 25 JUL : ARMY CARRIES OUT FLAG

MARCH; RAIL SERVICE RESTORED

VIOLENCE

ISSUES

• INFILTRATION FROM E. PAKISTAN• ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POST

BANGLADESHI INDEPENDENCE• MIGRATION OF BENGALI MUSLIMS

FROM WEST BENGAL• OCCUPATION OF LAND, JOBS,

INCREASED POPULATION• BENGALI MUSLIMS- REGISTERED

VOTERS AS PER ELECTORAL ROLLS

• MASSACRE AT NELLIE

REPERCUSSIONS• MUMB

AI 11 AUG 12 – MUSLIM PROTESTS AGAINST ASSAM RIOTS &

ATTACKS ON MUSLIMS IN BURMA, AZAD MAIDAN

PROTESTS BECAME VIOLENT @ 3 PM

DISPLAY OF PROVOCATIVE PHOTOS

VIOLENCE WAS PRE PLANNED

ROLE OF OUTSIDE AGENCIES CANNOT BE DENIED

02 KILLED, 54 INJURED, 20 VEHS BURNT INCL 03 OB VEHS

AMAR JAWAN JYOTI MEMORIAL DESECRATED

• PUNE 08-09 AUG 12 – MANIPURIS ATTACKED

• BANGALORE

REPERCUSSIONS

OVER 30,000 FROM NE FLED BANGALORE AFTER ATTACKS

ASKED TO LV BEFORE RAMADAN ENDS

ARRESTS WERE MADE BY BANGALORE POLICE OF INDLS

SENDING PROVOCATIVE SMSs & MMSs

• ANDHRA

PRADESH TWO ASSAMESE LABOURERS ATTACKED IN TRAIN

• UTTAR PRADESH 17 AUG 12, MUSLIM MOBS RESORTED TO LARGE SCALE

VIOLENCE IN LUCKNOW, KANPUR & ALLAHABAD

MOB VANDALISED STATUES OF GAUTAM BUDDHA & MAHAVIRA

REPERCUSSIONS

• BULK SMS FACILITY WAS BLOCKED FOR A FORTNIGHT

• HUNDREDS OF INTERNET SITES WERE BLOCKED TO DISPLAY PROVOCATIVE MATTER

• BLOCKING/ CENSORING OF FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN ETC. TO STOP RUMOURS WAS PROPOSED

• ROW OVER DELAY IN DPLY OF ARMY & PARA

MIL FORCES

CRITICISMS

• BAL THACKERAY, EDITOR OF SAAMNA PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL AGAINST ATTACKS

• LK ADVANI STOOD IN LOKSABHA & BLAMED ‘BANGLADESHI INFILT’- CAUSE OF VIOLENCE

• VHP’s PRAVIN TOGADIA TOURED ASSAM & BLAMED ‘BANGLADESHI INFILT’

• NARENDRA MODI IN HIS I-DAY SPEECH IN GUJARAT RANTED AGAINST INFILT

• KPS GILL IN ‘OUTLOOK’ SPOKE OF DEMOGRAPHIC RE-ENGINEERING

CONCLUSION

61,429 BODOS

IN REFUGE

E CAMPS

2,31,008 BENGALI MUSLIMS

IN REFUGEE CAMPS

1. POLITICS, BLAME-GAME HAS ALREADY STARTED

2. NO STEPS TO RESTORE THE REFUGEES3. INCENTIVES PROMISED NOT RECVD BY

VICTIMS4. INDIRA AWAS YOJANA- A BIG FAILURE5. NO ONE HAS APPLIED TO TACKLE THE

ISSUES

“ I OBJECT TO VIOLENCE BECAUSE WHEN IT APPEARS TO DO GOOD, THE GOOD IS ONLY TEMPORARY; THE EVIL IT DOES IS PERMANENT” - MAHATMA GANDHI

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