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Thursday, October 9, 2008

[chottala.com] Re: [khabor.com] Why Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Crristian Oikkyo Porishod silent about th is tragic story ?

 
Dear All
 
The so-called "illegal Bangladeshis" in Asasam are not Bangladeshis at all. Many of them may have origin in current Bangladesh and have started their settlement in Assam during British period, and definitely before the birth of Bangladesh. All of these so-called "illegal Bangladeshis" are Indian citizens [mostly Bangla speaking].
 
The Udalguri is situated in Assam, India, its geographical coordinates are 27° 33' 0" North, 95° 15' 0" East , about  200 Km north-east of Bangladesh border. Earlier, Udalgiri was a sub-divisional headquarters in Darrang District [see map]
 

After signing of Bodo Accord to end the demand for a Separate Bodoland State, An Autonomous District called Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) was created and Udalguri district became one of the four Districts under BTAD.  This district is bounded by Bhutan and West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh state in the north, Sonitpur district in the east, Darrang district in the south and Baksa district in the west.

 

See Assam map [Udalguri is situated in the Darrang district ]
District Map of Assam
 
About the current turmoil and killings in Udalguri, one commentator has put
"It's two oppressed communities of the state are fighting and the elites are
  enjoying to instigate them".......
 
The Bangla speaking people of Udalguri are Indian citizens and at it's
worst can be called Neo-Assamese. Mr. Mohiuddin Anwar is requested to do some
home work before making illogical comments and putting forward his communal slant.
 
 
'Bodo rebels responsible for ethnic cleansing'
Monday, 06 October , 2008, 10:08
Last Updated: Monday, 06 October , 2008, 10:44
 

Udalguri: Authorities in Assam on Monday said that the violence over the weekend that killed 32 people and injured more than 100 was systematic ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland.

"The violence in the three districts of Darrang, Udalguri and Baksa was not due to clashes between the tribal Bodos and immigrant Muslims, but a planned ethnic cleansing by the NDFB to drive out all non-Bodos from the area," Assam government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

"We have already arrested four NDFB cadres on Sunday with weapons who were involved in killing a woman and a child in Baksa district," he added.

Assam violence: Four killed in police firing

There have been several incidents of arson overnight with panic stricken villagers fleeing their homes. "Miscreants set ablaze a cluster of homes in about three villages late on Sunday, although there has been no fresh casualty," police said.

More than 600 homes have been burnt since Friday, when clashes first broke out, and at least 60,000 people have fled their villages in an area controlled by the Bodo Territorial Council (BTC), a politico-administrative structure, formed after New Delhi signed a peace accord with the militant Bodoland Tiger Force in 2003. The BLT is now a disbanded outfit with its former members now heading the BTC, an autonomous body.

The former BLT and the NDFB are at war for territorial supremacy with bitter fratricidal clashes between them in the last four years claiming more than 100 lives. But the NDFB, currently in a ceasefire mode with New Delhi since 2005, has not given up its demand for an independent Bodo homeland with the Bodo community in a majority in the three violence-hit districts in northern Assam.

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"This is not a clash between Hindus and immigrant Bangladeshi Muslims as projected, but a systematic pogrom by the NDFB as many of the people affected by the violence are genuine Assamese Muslims, Bengali Hindus, common Bodos, besides a few Adivasis as well," the minister said.

The NDFB is a majority Christian outfit with the outfit's top leader Ranjan Daimary believed to be operating out of Bangladesh.

"We are investigating reports of the involvement of the NDFB in the clashes and if proved we shall be forced to call off the ceasefire," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said. "Strict orders have been issued to the security forces, including the army, to shoot at sight anybody found indulging in violence," he added.

Sarma said miscreants from various communities were trying to take advantage of the situation by indulging in arson with a view to looting properties. "In the final analysis this is not a communal clash," he said.

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It's all about land
Digambar Patowary, Hindustan Times
Tiyajhar, October 05, 2008
First Published: 23:41 IST(5/10/2008)
Last Updated: 23:46 IST(5/10/2008)
 
It all started over a goat.

A Bodo youth was caught on Thursday night trying to steal a goat from the immigrant Muslim dominated village of Mohanpur in Udalguri district, 100 km north of Guwahati. When he returned to his village badly thrashed, his compatriots decided they had to retaliate.

By Friday afternoon, a Muslim was found murdered close to the deputy commissioner's office in Udalguri town. Thereafter for both communities there was no looking back, as violence engulfed the neighbouring districts of Darrang and Baska as well.

Thousands, specially women and children fled to Mangaldoi, the headquarters of Darrang district, where relief camps have been set up on the outskirts.

"Four people were killed before my eyes," said Basanti Boro, 30, who has sought shelter at a relief camp set up at Mudoibari High School. "They were not even Bodos, but Garo tribals." She collapsed into tears. "We have become homeless in our own land."

 "The immigrants want to grab our land," said Sukaran Boro of Tiyajhar village. He has sent his family to a relief camp but stayed back to guard his property. 

Land is indeed the key to the conflict that has persisted for several decades. The first Muslim immigrants — from East Bengal — began arriving in this region – as in most of Assam – in the late 19th century, encouraged by the British, who wanted to increase the volume of cultivation in the area. They cultivated inferior lands other peasants would not touch and made them bloom.

But they continued to pour in even after East Pakistan – later called Bangladesh – became a separate country, and it was no longer legal to do so. They still haven't stopped. With no more land available, they have used a variety of means to entrench themselves, even infiltrating into the tribal belts and blocks – created by the government to prevent tribal land alienation.

Not surprisingly during the agitation for a separate Bodo state within the Indian union in the 1980s and 1990s, there were repeated clashes between the Bodos and the immigrants, the former resenting their very presence.

The present round of tension began in August this year when Assamese students led by the All Assam Students Union began a drive in the area to identify and remove illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Events took a nasty turn when 12 immigrant Muslim labourers went missing. Ten bodies were later recovered.


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On 10/8/08, mohiuddin@netzero.net <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:

Assam violence toll rises to 51


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Guwahati, Oct 8 : The death toll in Assam's Udalguri and Darrang Districts, dogged by clashes between Bodos and illegal Bangladeshi migrants has risen to 51 with the recovery of 11 bodies today....


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RE: [chottala.com] New Yorker Article_The Choice

I thought you all would like this commentary/article.....provides a little more insight.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors


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[chottala.com] ADAB Chittagong strongly protests and condemn against the threatening to Mr. Lalit C. Chakma, Executive Director of SAS!

Dear all,

ADAB Chittagong also strongly protests threat...?

But those who are committed and dedicated development workers always are threaten; because some body always must be loser by the activities of any real development workers and they must be re-act! Are we ready for them? Those who thinks it should be continue, please be with Mr. Lalit C Chakma, in the time of Crisis, raise the voice of peoples.

 

We are urging the Government law enforcing agencies to take action to the criminals, but they have close contact with administration. The united citizen force can compel the do so, please raise the voice............   

S M Nazer Hossain
Chairperson
ADAB Chittagong Chapter
 

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Our strong protest and condemn against the threatening to kill the development worker, Mr. Lalit C. Chakma, Executive Director of SAS

Mr. Lalit C. Chakma, Member of National Council of Sushasaner Jonno Procharavijan (SUPRO) and Executive Director of Strategic Actions Society (SAS) was threatened to be killed by an unknown person  from a mobile (number is 01815673110) on 03 October 2008 at 10:24 a.m while he was attending a meeting called by the youths in his native village. This kind of threatening to Mr. Lalit C. Chakma, a committed development worker, is a crime against the humanity and direct violation of general people's rights. SAS strongly condemn it and protest against this kind of heinous act of the criminals. At the same time, SAS strongly demands to the Deputy Commissioner to stop the unhealthy and anti-environmental initiative of the establishment of brickfield over the motherland of SAS and Mr. Lalit C. Chakma.

Note that, "Sonaichari" is a name of a village under the Kawkhali Upazilla of Rangamati Hill District. A number of 162 families live in this village. This type of threatening to him begins when he has started organizing local peoples against the initiative of establishing a brickfield by a group of businessmen along with some local influential leaders in the middlemost of this village. On behalf of the villagers, written application along with the demand to stop this kind of anti-environmental, anti people and unhealthy initiative has already been submitted to Deputy Commissioner of Rangamati Hill District. However, before that the villagers have informed to the local UP Chairman and businessmen about their objections and both parties discussed several times. But the initiators unitarily announce anyhow to establish the brickfield without taking the concerns of local people. The owners of the brickfield are locally powerful. Therefore, they become very arrogant toward the local people for putting application to Deputy Commissioner against the establishment of brickfield and started threatening the local people.

In relation to this, Betbunia Union Parishad Chairmen Aungsui Prue Chowdhury, his allies Md Manir Uddin, Nilamoni Chakma and some business partners from Raozan area have been pressurizing and threatening Mr. Lalit C. Chakma to keep himself away from his villager's side. The said businessmen have already finalized their preparation for establishment of brickfield in keeping the poor villagers under pressure and fair and making them dumb to achieve their interest. Recently, we are informed that in order to frighten the villagers they have surrounded the green paddy field with hired force and established their command in the area.

Strategic Actions Society (SAS) is urging to humanitarian, sympathetic, conscious and environmentalist individual and organizations to come forward against this kind of anti-environment, anti people interest activities.

Nanda Kishore Chakma

Coordinator

Program Implementation Section

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Kallyanpur Area, Rangamati - 4500, Post Box-47, Chittagong Hill Tracts
Bangladesh. Tel & Fax: 88-0351-62237, Mobile: 01712-276408
E-mail: info@sasbd.org, sas_lalit@yahoo.com
Website: www.sasbd.org
Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh(ADAB)
Chittagong Chapter
House # 11 Road # 01, Block-B Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong-4212
Tel: 880-31-670302, 01713-110054 (chair)
E-mail:
adab.chittagong@yahoo.com

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