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| Rebels kill 14 Hindi-speaking people in India |
| 2010-11-09 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Tribal separatists in northeast India rubbed out at least 14 people in three attacks on Monday, police said, adding that the targets were Hindi-speakers. The outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) fired at a passenger bus in Sonitpur district, about 250km north of Assam's main city Guwahati, killing eight passengers. "All those killed were Hindi-speaking people hailing from eastern state of Bihar and working as government employees," said Assam's police chief Shankar Baruah. In another incident five people, including a woman, were killed after NDFB gunnies opened fire near Belseri village, also in Sonitpur district. In the third attack a Hindi-speaker was killed in Nalbari district in western Assam. Tension has simmered for years in Assam, with rebels and local leaders complaining that Hindi-speaking migrants from the northern Ganges plain are changing the demographics of the state and taking local jobs. In 2000 several separatist groups carried out a campaign against Hindi-speaking people, killing 150 of them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The NDFB is one of the few terrorist orgs in the world that is mostly Christian. The issue however is ethnicity/language, not religion. The NDFB wants people to speak Bodo in their State. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2010-11-09 16:17 |
| #2 Uh, uh, "VISIT TO INDIA" = MERYL STREEP + ROBERT REDFORD??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-09 01:00 |
| #1 ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > J & K SEPARATISTS NOT BETTING ON OBAMA [BO's visit to India]. * ADKRONOS [old] > PAKISTAN: KASHMIR STUDENTS [being]TRAINED TO WAGE JIHAD IN INDIA, in POK = PAK-OCCUPIED KASHMIR. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-09 00:59 |