At 8:33 AM -0600 7/5/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
This from the BBC. One would hope this brings about the same levels
of protests and condemnations when a member of the Indian army goes
awry!
*** And look how the 'authorities', quick to ambush and assassinate
civilians on suspicion of being
'terrorists' protecting what they ought to be doing!
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Four Indian villages burnt down - BBC News
Armed residents of India's north-eastern state of Nagaland have
burnt down villages in the neighbouring state of Assam, police say.
Two villagers were killed when hundreds of Nagaland residents
crossed the border and torched four settlements in Geleki, in
Sibsagar district.
More than 20 villagers have been injured in the attack, police said.
Nagaland claims part of Assam as its own territory, while Assam says
some of its land has been occupied by Nagaland.
Assam police official DK Pathak told the BBC that nearly 100 houses
were set on fire by armed villagers from Nagaland in Geleki early on
Thursday.
Many villagers have fled the area of the attacks in panic.
'Forcible occupation
Nagaland was created as a separate state by carving the former Naga
Hills district out of Assam in 1963 after a rebellion broke out
there in 1956.
The separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) has
been demanding integration of all Naga inhabited territories of
Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh with the state of Nagaland to
create a greater Naga state.
Nagaland claims thousands of square kilometres of territory in Assam
as its own.
Assam alleges that Nagaland has forcibly occupied a huge area of its
territory, declaring it an administrative sub-division of its own
called Niuland.
Angry Nagas burnt down 10 government schools in Manipur state on Wednesday.
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