Assam Ethnic Clashes

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  Over 100 Myanmar Soldiers Who Fled To Mizoram Sent Back

  A total of 104 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mizoram during armed clashes with an ethnic insurgent group in the neighbouring country, have been sent back, an Assam Rifles official said on Wednesday.

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  Militant Hideout Busted in Assam's Kokrajhar

  A hideout of the NDFB(S) was today busted in a joint operation by commandos of the Assam police and army men in the jungles of lower Assam's Kokrajhar district.

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  Assam Situation Improving, No Incident In Last 48 Hours: Officials

  The situation in violence-hit lower Assam districts is improving with no fresh incidents being reported since Friday, even as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said confidence-building measures were needed in the wake of death of 81 people following an NDFB(S) militant attack.

• Assam-Nagaland Border Clashes: Curfew Re-imposed in Golaghat

  Curfew has been re-imposed in Golaghat, the epicentre of the violence that has hit the border villages of Assam and Nagaland over the last few days. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

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  Assam, Nagaland Chief Ministers Talk Crisis Resolution

  After talks with the Centre, the chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland have agreed to initiate measures to de-escalate the tension at the border of the two states, where 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

• Assam-Nagaland Border Clashes: Centre Preps Roadmap To Control Violence

  The Centre wants the governments of Assam and Nagaland to begin talks as part of an immediate road map to control the violence that has hit villages on the border of the two states. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

• 11 Dead in Targeted Killings in 12 Hours in Kokrajhar, Assam

  10 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Assam's Kokrakhar since yesterday.

• In Assam's Karbi Anglong, fear drives people to relief camps

  Ethnic clashes between the Karbis and the Rengma Nagas on the Assam-Nagaland border have led to the death of 20 people since the last week of December and also displaced many people from their villages.

• Nagaland: one of nine decomposed bodies identified, sources in police suspect link to ethnic clashes

  One of the nine decomposed bodies found in Nagaland's Dimapur city on Friday is of a local student union leader who belonged to the Karbi tribe and was a resident of Assam's Karbi Anglong district, the police have said.

• A year after riots in Assam's Bodo-dominated districts, no relief for some

  In the aftermath of the ethnic clashes that erupted in Bodo-dominated areas of Assam last year, more than four lakh people moved to relief camps set up by the state all across the territory. While most of these camps have closed now, there are two that are still teeming with refugees.

• In this Assam town, a determined effort to fight communal tension

  Dhubri town served as a refuge for hundreds of people who were affected by the recent ethnic violence in Assam, the worst in the state in over a decade.

• Assam: Militant violence, not ethnic clashes?

  20 minutes from Kokrajhar town through lush green fields and a forest is Pakritol village. Not a recent habitat but a very old settlement with neat rows of houses. We hesitate to enter knowing that people there must be agitated. An Army convoy with red flags overtake us to go into the village and we follow them. A crowd waiting at the bend and a fa...

• Assam violence: One killed in firing in Kokrajhar; bandh called by students' union today

  One person has died and five others have been injured in fresh violence in the Kokrajhar district of Assam. The area has been the epicentre of an ethnic flare-up that has ravaged the state in the last one month, claiming over 90 lives and leaving lakhs displaced.

• Assam violence: Bandh called by Bajrang Dal; six ministers sent to ensure peace

  Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered his administration to crackdown on trouble makers after five people were killed in fresh violence in lower Assam in the weekend. He has also sent out a team of ministers to ensure peace in the troubled districts that have seen ethnic clashes over the last one month. Over 80 people have died and about 4 l...

• Assam MLA arrest: Bodoland People's Front calls for indefinite bandh; curfew in Kokrajhar

  The Bodoland People's Front has called for an idefinite bandh to protest against the arrest of their MLA for his alleged role in the recent ethnic clashes in Assam that have left over 70 people dead in the last one month. In anticipation of violence, the police has imposed an indefinite curfew in Kokrajhar district.