150 Killed in Tribal Violence in N. India
More than 150 people have died in violence involving Bodo tribesmen in northeast India’s Assam state over the past four days, officials said Sunday.
S.M. Thiruvengadam, deputy director of the Assam state intelligence bureau, said more than 120 bodies had been brought out of jungles along the border between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh states in the past 48 hours.
“Most of those killed were women and children,” said M.P. Bezboruah, Assam’s home commissioner.
Rebel Bodo tribesmen have been fighting the Assamese for their own state within India since last February, claiming that the Assam government discriminates against them. More than 400 people have been killed in the insurgency.
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