Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Assam Cm Gogoi warned BPF's Hagrama Mohilary to snap ties over Killing Muslims

Assam CM Tarun Gogoi warned BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary to snap the ties if its involvement in killing Muslims proves true.


Five more bodies were recovered on Wednesday morning from two trouble-torn districts of Assam, taking the toll in the violence unleashed by Bodo militants to 41.

Rattled by the large-scale violence, chief minister Tarun Gogoi threatened to snap ties with the Bodoland People's Front (BPF) if allegations of the Hagrama Mohilary-led party's involvement in killing Muslims are found to be true.

The bodies, which were recovered from Beki river that flows from Baksa district, are yet to be identified. The bodies include that of a 10-year-old girl bearing bullet injuries on her head.

"Officially, we have not identified the bodies yet but the families have identified them to be from the affected areas," Baksa deputy commissioner Vinod Seshan said.

"However, identification has to be done to ascertain whether these are the victims of the attack in Narayanguri and Hagrabari villages," Seshan told PTI.

A team of 40 NDRF personnel, which reached the spot on Tuesday, started their operation from this morning to fish out more bodies from the Beki river.

Suspected NDFB(S) militants had unleashed violence in the two districts of Baksa and Kokrajhar on May 2.

Gogoi visited violence-hit Baksa and Kokrajhar districts and assured the people that his government would provide them security.

Official sources said Gogoi visited the victims in some of the relief camps, including Balapara.
"I will sever all ties with BPF if they are actually involved in the killing of Muslims. It will not take even 5 minutes for me," Gogoi told reporters.

He added that the National Investigating Agency (NIA) is probing the incidents while the state government is also separately enquiring the massacre, he added.

On the demand for dissolving the BTAD, Gogoi said, "I cannot comment on that as it was created by the Centre and is a constitutional issue."

People lodged in relief camps told him that the surrendered BLT militants were involved in the attack on them with the alleged help of forest guards, sources said.

Although the state government has put the blame for the twin attack on the banned NDFB(S), the affected people claimed it was an act of revenge by Congress' alliance partner BPF, which governs Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD).

The wailing victims also wanted the villages to be provided with licensed arms for their protection and demanded that their areas be separated from the autonomous BTAD administered by former BLT leaders who have now formed the BPF, sources said.

With no fresh incident reported, the administration has relaxed the indefinite curfew in worst-hit Baksa district for eight hours from 8 am, in Kokrajhar district for seven hours from 10 am and the prohibitory order as a preventive measure in Chirang district for 13 hours from 5 am.

Clin Chit to Amit Shah in Ishrat Jahan case

(IANS)

 The CBI told a special court Wednesday that sufficient evidence has not been found against BJP leader Amit Shah in the killing of Ishrat Jahan in a fake gun battle case.

An application was filed earlier by Gopinath Pillai, the father of one of the three men killed along with Ishrat Jahan in a fake gun battle in Gujarat June 15, 2004.

"In a response to an application filed by Pillai about two months ago, the CBI said that evidence collected for the case is in the court. Amit Shah's name has not been mentioned in the charge sheet. Now it is up to the court to decide," said a Central Bureau of Investigation official.

The agency has not given name of any political leader in the charge sheet filed in June 2013 followed by a supplementary charge sheet in February 2014. But it has charged police and intelligence bureau officers for murder of the four and criminal conspiracy, among other crimes.

The CBI has charged 11 policemen, including four officers of the central Intelligence Bureau, for killing the four people in the case.

Shah, a close aide of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and the party's election-in-charge in Uttar Pradesh, is facing murder and conspiracy charges in two other fake gun battle and killing cases related to Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.

Wide Eye Opener For Those Weeping For Bodoland Muslims

Read The first lines of the article carefully
More than 20 million Muselmaniacs have invaded India from Banglatrash after secession. The fast breeding soldiers of allah need ‘Lebensraum’. And infidels to kill.


Death toll rises in ethnic violence India’s Assam
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More than 20 million Muselmaniacs have invaded India from Banglatrash after secession. The fast breeding soldiers of allah need ‘Lebensraum’. And infidels to kill.
Death toll rises in ethnic violence India’s AssamFile Photo
The number of dead has risen to 32 in Assam, northeastern India, as ethinc violence sprials out of control in the wake of the country’s national elections.
The death toll in the Baksa district of Assam, India, rose to 32 Saturday after the  recovery of nine more people as violence continues in the area, Indian media reported.
The nine dead included four children and two women in the Khagrabari village near the Manas National Park. The two children were identified as Ilina Khatun and Ariful Islam.
Indian authorities say that the suspected Bodo militants belonging to the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland are behind the massacre.
Badruddin Ajmal, member of Indian Parliament and perfume magnate, from adjoining Dhubri area where thousands of Muslims have taken shelter in relief camps, told Anadolu Agency that the Congress party-led state government must be dissolved.
“We demand imposition of President’s rule in the state as the government has failed in its constitutional duty to protect Indian minorities,” Ajmal said, adding that the autonomy of the Bodoland Territorial Council must be rescinded as it has failed in its commitment to safeguard the non-Bodo population.
The affected area of Baksa and Kokrajhar districts, where the ethnic violence started on Thursday night, fall under Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts administered by the council.
Mumbai-based, Burhanuddin Qasmi, editor of monthly English magazine ‘Easter Crescent’, who hails from Assam, told Anadolu Agency that a large number of Muslims are still missing in Baksa district.
“The death toll is likely to rise as many Muslims who fled from Baksa and other villages are still missing,” he said.
Qasmi claimed one regional Bodo leader had threatened Muslims three days ago in the affected area as the leader believed Muslims did not vote for the Bodo candidate of choice in the voting in India’s national elections in Assam.
Since Thursday, more than 50 houses belonging to members of the Muslim community have been set ablaze and the Indian police have arrested 12 people from the Baksa area in connection with four attacks that singled out Bengali-speaking Muslims.
The Indian Army and paramilitary forces marched through the affected area Saturday morning and an indefinite curfew is in force in Baksa and neighboring villages.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the “terrorist attacks” terming it as “cowardly attempts to spread fear and terror among” the citizens.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi dismissed calls by opposition parties and civil rights activists for his resignation.
“I will not step down as a chief minister. I am not a coward….I will not run away from battlefield, I will fight the terrorists,” Gogoi said after chairing a meeting demanding a probe by federal National Investigation Agency.
The ethnic violence which began Thursday night when Bodo militants armed with automatic assault rifles fired indiscriminately at a group of people in Baksa district followed by a second attack in the Kokrajhar district. A third attack took place Friday evening when 10 bodies sprayed with bullets were recovered from the Baksa district.
The rebels, an ethnic minority, have been fighting for a separate homeland for the region’s Bodo people against India.
Friday’s killings are the second biggest ethnic attack since 2012 when riots between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims left over 80 people dead and displaced 400,000.

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