Bodos are the victims in Assam riots

Urmila Gayari, a Bodo woman whose family has been rendered homeless by Bodo-Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant violence, holds her two-year-old son at a relief camp at Bijni in Chirang district of Assam. She and other villagers are frightened to return to the remnants of their homes. Last month’s violence in Kokrajhar district, Assam, which resulted in 77 dead (so far) and nearly four lakh uprooted from home, their humble hearths torched to cinders, possibly to prevent them from returning to reclaim the vacated lands, was both the consequence...

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