By TCN News
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has criticized National Commission for Minorities (NCM) for its report on Assam violence.
NCM report released few days ago had found no evidence of sudden influx of Bangladeshi migrants into Assam. It also said that Bodo-Muslim conflict was unequal as Bodos had access to arms.
NCM delegation consisting of Dr. Syeda Hameed, member, Planning Commission and K. N. Daruwalla, member, NCM observed the pathetic condition of camps that housed Muslim refugees. In one camp, there were just 10 toilets for 4,300 inmates. In Grahampur High School camp of Gossaigaon there were 6,569 inmates and just 25 toilets. Bodo camps were in much better condition, observed NCM.
ACHR criticized NCM for reducing the violence in Assam to a conflict between Bodos and Muslims. It accuses NCM for recognizing Muslims as a minority but failed to identify Bodos as “ethnic minority.”
NCM report also documented the pathetic condition of Muslim camps, “the fact that when Muslims abandoned their villages their houses were looted and gutted might indicate a design to see that they do not return to their own villages.”
ACHR in its statement said that NCM delegation visited only one Bodo camp i.e. Vidyapeeth High School at Kokrajhar town and six Muslim relief camps. The Vidyapeeth High School is in the heart of Kokrajhar town, the headquarters of the BTAD and therefore, its condition is better than other Bodo relief camps
and therefore, the inferences drawn by the NCM are inaccurate.
Links:
http://www.ncm.nic.in/pdf/tour%20reports/Assam.pdf