Kokrajhar Ethnic Clashes

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

Peace remained the central focus of Eid in Assam on Monday with thousands of people offering Namaz-e-Eid at mosques across the state, including in the troubled Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts where 77 people have been killed in ethnic clashes and more than four lakh displaced.

After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four bodies - two in Chirang district and two in Kokrajhar - were recovered yesterday taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.

After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four more bodies have been recovered from the Kokrajhar and Chirang districts today, taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.

Blood and Belonging in Assam goes beneath the surface of the latest clashes in Assam's Kokrajhar and adjoining districts, governed by the autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council to delve into the faultlines of ethnicity, religion and economic disparities that cut across Assam's various tribes and populations.

A bureaucrat of the Assam government had to face the ire of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram over the large number of vehicles in his motorcade during his visit here to relief camps for ethnic violence-hit victims.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will visit violence hit Assam today, to take stock of the situation there. They are slated to fly to Kokrajhar, the epicentre of the ethnic clashes, in a chopper and are expected to reach the Circuit House at 11 am.

45 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Assam and nearly four lakh people are now housed in 200 relief camps, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today. He aggressively denied that his government had denied an alert from the Centre about the escalating tension that spiralled into a national crisis.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi took a full week after ethnic clashes began in his state, to reach Kokrajhar, the epicenter of the violence that has left 41 people dead and about 2 lakh homeless. There he said "Assam is not burning" and that it will take the state two or three days to get back to normal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

Peace remained the central focus of Eid in Assam on Monday with thousands of people offering Namaz-e-Eid at mosques across the state, including in the troubled Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts where 77 people have been killed in ethnic clashes and more than four lakh displaced.

After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four bodies - two in Chirang district and two in Kokrajhar - were recovered yesterday taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.

After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four more bodies have been recovered from the Kokrajhar and Chirang districts today, taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.

Blood and Belonging in Assam goes beneath the surface of the latest clashes in Assam's Kokrajhar and adjoining districts, governed by the autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council to delve into the faultlines of ethnicity, religion and economic disparities that cut across Assam's various tribes and populations.

A bureaucrat of the Assam government had to face the ire of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram over the large number of vehicles in his motorcade during his visit here to relief camps for ethnic violence-hit victims.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will visit violence hit Assam today, to take stock of the situation there. They are slated to fly to Kokrajhar, the epicentre of the ethnic clashes, in a chopper and are expected to reach the Circuit House at 11 am.

45 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Assam and nearly four lakh people are now housed in 200 relief camps, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today. He aggressively denied that his government had denied an alert from the Centre about the escalating tension that spiralled into a national crisis.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi took a full week after ethnic clashes began in his state, to reach Kokrajhar, the epicenter of the violence that has left 41 people dead and about 2 lakh homeless. There he said "Assam is not burning" and that it will take the state two or three days to get back to normal.