Dear
Friends
All of us are habituated to see fictitious peoples resistance processions in the Bollywood movies. Normally at the concluding part of the movie. But today I show it in Assam TV channels live. Thousands of citizens , including women and children, picked up whatever weapons they get and rallied to the local Police Out post to vandalize the out post. They attacked one police higher officer as well.
NDFB Massacres 12 in North Assam; Women And Children Among Dead |
05-10-2009 | 01:09:02 IST | NEWSLIVE Bureau |
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| The death toll in Sunday (Oct 04) night's massacre at Bhimajuli village near Biswanath Chariali in Assam's Sonitpur district rose to 12 with an 8-year-old girl succumbing to her injuries at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital on Monday (Oct 05) morning. Six others, including three women, all of them seriously injured in the incident, were also brought to the GMC Hospital from the Kanaklata Civil Hospital in Tezpur on early Monday. Heavily-armed NDFB militants stormed Bhimajuli and Dinajan villages under Biswanath Chariali subdivision in Assam's Sonitpur district on Sunday evening and fired at the villagers with automatic weapons killing 11 villagers on the spot. The injured people were at first rushed to the Biswanath Chariali Civil Hospital, while those seriously injured in the incident were sent to the Kanaklata Civil Hospital in Tezpur and the Guwahati Medical College Hospital for better treatment. The dead villagers have been identified as Goma Devi, Mon Bahadur Chetri, Hagru Paraja, Chandra Chetry, Bhuma Devi, Bhuban Newar, Krishna Gour, Dulumoni Bora, Junu Bora, Phuleswari Pradhan and Manju Devi. On the other hand, Karna Bahadur, Lalita Newar, Debeswar Bora, Bhagat Gour, Lakhu Gour, Phinku Gour, Anjana Telenga, Prabhawati Pandey and Phuleswar Gour were seriously injured. Locals said the NDFB was carrying out an extortion drive in the area for quite a long time, demanding exorbitant sum of money from the villagers. However residents of the area not only refused to pay any money to the outlawed outfit, they also protested against the illegal activities carried out by the NDFB. Sunday evening's incident is being seen as retaliation to the opposition of the people to the NDFB's extortion drive. A massive military operation has since been launched in the area to nab those responsible for the massacre. Meanwhile, the situation at the villages where the massacre took place is tense with the local people demanding measures from the government for their security. People armed with bows and arrows, sticks and whatever weapons they could lay their hands upon to protect themselves. Anger against the police and the administrative machinery was clearly palpable among the people as they were clearly in a state of shock. Angry mobs also vandalised the Dinajan police outpost forcing the police to resort to lathi charge and blank fire twice. Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi met senior ministerial colleagues after the incident on Sunday and dispatched a team of ministers to Bhimajuli and Dinajan to take stock of the situation. A three-member delegation of Assam ministers comprising Revenue and Rehabilitation minister Bhumidhar Barman, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Cultural Affairs Minister Bharat Narah have rushed to the affected villages to take stock of the situation. Assam police Director General Sankar Barua is also supervising security measures in the affected areas. | |
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