Assam killing: Adibasi National Council calls for 12-hour bandh

Mangalore Today News Network

Aizawl, December 26, 2014: A 12-hour Assam bandh has been called by Adibasi National Council with support of All Adivasi students Association, All Assam Tea students Association and ABSU sonitpur unit All Bodo Students Union, in the wake of killing of 75 people by the NDFB in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts.

 

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday announced that the National Investigation Agency would probe the brutal NDFB attacks on Adivasis in Assam. The attacks left 78 people dead.



Singh told a press conference after touring affected Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts, "I have spoken to the Assam CM and we have decided to investigate the entire incident by the NIA. We want to see the links of such groups. We want to know with whom they have connections."

He said that the government took the attacks "very seriously".

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh with Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi during a meeting regarding Law and Order situation of the State in Guwahati

"We cannot overlook it as a simple militant act. It is an act of terror. Both state and central governments will deal with it the way terrorism is dealt with," he said, PTI reported.

The Sangbijit Brahma faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) on Tuesday killed 75 people, several of them women and children, in an almost simultaneous attack on Adivasi settlers in four locations spread in two districts of Assam-Kokrajhar and Sonitpur. The attacks, all believed to have been carried out with AK-series weapons, took place between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm, according to police sources.


Courtesy: Indiatoday