By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: The All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) has urged the state government to pay attention to the families of the riot victims in Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) or the students’ body will go on hunger strike after August 15.
AAMSU also urged the government to take measures in bringing normalcy in BTAD.
TCN file photo
AAMSU leaders said that as the government has neglected the victim families of the violence so far, they would go for indefinite hunger strike.
The students’ organisation demanded that the government should pay compensation to the five destitute families which had lost their breadwinners in the riots in 2012 besides the families of the recent violence which killed more than 45 people.
“The government tend to forget the plight of the people just after the incident. They would announce compensation but would do nothing in the due course of time. We strongly condemn such behaviour of the government and demand immediate compensation for the victim families in BTAD,” AAMSU president Abdur Rahim Ahmed told TCN.
Abdur Rahim Ahmed
Ahmed also urged the ministers and MLAs of minority community to raise the issue in the ongoing assembly session. “We have been demanding the seizure of illegal arms in the region which we feel is one of the prime reasons for the continuing violence in BTAD. But no steps have been taken so far by the government,” Ahmed added.
AAMSU general secretary Rezaul Karim Sarkar said that the government should pay compensation to the five destitute families which had lost their breadwinners in the 2012 riots.
Amzad Ali of Chirang, his son Nur Alam, Nurjamal Mondol, also of Chirang, Alauddin Sekh of Bongaigaon, Abu Samad, also of Bongaigaon and Sukur Ali of Chirang have neither been located, nor their families received any compensation from the government, Sarkar added.
“If the government does not announce any compensation to the five families and rehabilitate the 2,500 victims of the BTAD clashes in the current Assembly Session, we will stage a fast-unto-death after August 15,” Sarkar said.
A family affected in violence in BTAD in camps. [TCN file photo]
The 2012 riot in BTAD has witnessed killing of at least 100 people in BTAD and the lives of innocent people continued to be lost even after that.
As many as 471 persons lost their lives in seven communal clashes in Assam since 2001, according to the official records revealed in the ongoing state assembly session.
The clash between Bodo and Muslim communities in 2012 recorded maximum number of deaths, with 109 people losing their lives in Kokrajhar, Chirang, Udalguri, Baksa and Dhubri districts.
Altogether 106 people were killed in the clash between Karbi and Dimasa tribes in Karbi Anglong district in 2005. Another 98 people were killed in the clash between Kuki and Karbi from October 2003 to April 2004 in the district.
Besides, 73 persons lost their lives in the communal clash between Zemi Naga and Dimasa tribes in Dima Hasao district in 2009. And 57 people were killed in Dima Hasao in 2003 during a clash between Hmar and Dimasa people.
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Bodoland violence 2012