---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Assam] Are we seeing a similar war response here in Assam like the one between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan State? From: "Mohan R. Palleti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, January 9, 2007 3:42 pm To: "Bartta Bistar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maybe so from where you sit and send emails in the UK. But to me it appears to be the death knell of economic growth in Assam and the growth of a cooperative mafia. But as I wrote once before, I am very confused at what you intend to put across to people. Mohan R. Palleti > Policemen injured in Assam blast > > http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Northeast&slug=Policemen+injured+in+Assam+blast&id=21129&callid=0&category=National > > > > Kishaly Bhattacharjee > > > > Tuesday, January 9, 2007 (Tingrai, Assam): > > > > A bomb in Assam's high security Dispur capital complex on Tuesday > critically > injured two policemen, reports say. > > > > They were rushed to the Guwahati Medical College hospital. > > > > The bomb, kept in a motorcycle parked at the entrance to a police station, > is believed to be the work of the banned separatist ULFA rebels. > > > > The state assembly, residences of several ministers and top police > officials > are located near the site of the blast. > > > > At the weekend, the rebels killed 68 laborers in separate attacks. > > > > Laborers return > > > > Despite the fear of more attacks, hundreds of such workers from Bihar's > Siwan area continue to work at the brick kiln industry during the busiest > season. > > > > Just five hundred metres away at another kiln five people were shot dead > on > Friday. > > > > The return of the laborers underlines their resilience. > > > > The money they earn during the few months is required to sustain them > during > the rest of the year. > > > > "There is fear, we are scared, but fear won't feed us, its money and work. > We earn about 8 to 10,000 rupees for the entire year," kiln labourer > Harinder Kumar Singh said. > > > > In search of work > > > > For decades the labourers come in search of work in Assam. > > > > "They have come from outside, they are unarmed, they have come for food > for > two to three months, they have virtually nothing and that's why they are > soft targets," said brick kiln owner Tulya Gogoi. > > > > I also want to know what does ULFA gain? Let ULFA come out in the open, > let > them fight with the forces, my business is over. Earlier also they have > hit > my business in 2003." > > > > If not at brick kilns they work as rickshaw-pullers, barbers, cobblers and > vegetable vendors. > > > > A large section of Assam's service sector depends on them. > Mohan Rao Palleti Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center Zoology Department, NCSU David Clark Labs 218 Raleigh, NC 27695-7617 919-513-7292 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
