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Muslim Illegal Immigration in India Sparks Violent Resistance
troops poured into violence-torn areas of India’s far northeastern
state of Assam after several days of inter-communal violence left 32
dead and hundreds fleeing their homes. By Monday morning calm was
restored; relatives began burying their dead, families started
returning, and it appeared that the violence would not approach that
which displaced almost 400,000 people in 2012.
Though
actual hostilities stopped, the political war was just getting
started. The ruling Congress Party, about to face an unfamiliar
role out of power (See “India’s Impending Conservative Victory), tried to blame the violence on its rival BJP and the man likely to be India’s next Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
attackers, Bodo tribesmen, are Hindu, and their victims, illegal
infiltrators from Bangladesh, are Muslim. The Congress Party and
their allies on the left have long tried to paint Modi as a radical
Hindu, and even while the violence still raged, Congress’s beleaguered
Prime Ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi warned that 22,000 people would
be massacred if Modi became Prime Minister. Another cabinet
minister claimed that the BJP was using morphed pictures to spread
communal propaganda on social media but provided no proof of his
allegations.
As
a Muslim friend in India told me, however, Congress has ruled Assam for
24 years, is still in power, and created the current state of affairs
and “violence against Muslims of Assam.”
The
most intense fighting took place in Kokrajhar, a major Bodo center
where the air is full of political activism and resentment over an
unresponsive government. I was there in March, met with Bodo
leaders and activists, and observed conditions on the border between
Bangladesh and the contiguous Indian states of Assam and
Meghalaya. I also uncovered compelling evidence that tensions were
running high for some time.
Activists
told me that they are ready “to defend their homes and families” and
that the prospect of a Modi victory and government action was the only
thing stopping them from rebelling — for the moment. I got a
distinct impression that things could unravel at any time and wrote that
“the rising tensions on the border will explode unless the infiltration
[from Bangladesh] stops.”
For
years, Bodos and other tribal groups have been complaining bitterly
that the government’s refusal to stop massive infiltration by
Bangladeshi Muslims is destroying both their culture and the arboreal
environment that is so much a part of it. While in the areas, I
watched as Bangladeshis crossed into Assam brazenly in broad daylight
with no action by the Indian Border Security Forces who were supposed to
stop them. One border guard told locals who were protesting the
illegal migrants that their protests were futile and would earn them
nothing but opposition from “higher ups.” “Our hands are tied,” he
told them. The guards were nowhere to be found until I
photographed the border’s massive gaps and two of them tried
(unsuccessfully) to seize my camera.
Those conditions, that make Bodos fear for their people’s future, are the real cause of the violence.
In
July 2012, they took a stand against the illegal “infiltrators,” as
they are called, to indicate the deliberate attempt to change the area’s
demographics. After they did, Muslim mobs attacked those Bodos
who were too frail to leave their village for safety. I spoke with
the families of three victims who were hacked to death by Muslim
mobs. One elderly man described how he and his wife were sitting
under a tree on their property when the mobs swarmed their home, hacked
him with a machete which they then used to kill his wife. An
elderly widow told me that she was unable to flee so the Muslim mobs
attacked her and killed her bedridden and disabled husband.
Back
in the Assamese capital of Guwahati, a group of scholars at the
Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture describe how Bangladeshi
infiltrators have changed the area’s demography and disrupted the lives
of the Bodos and other Assam tribes. Their communities have been
dispersed and the forests, central to Bodo culture, face an
environmental catastrophe: de-forestation, reduction in crop
varieties, and near extinction of creatures like the one-horned rhino.
Even
though the fighting has stopped for now, tensions remain high.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told India to expect more
“climate refugees” from her country. The Bodos told me they are
ready for them.
India’s
troops poured into violence-torn areas of India’s far northeastern
state of Assam after several days of inter-communal violence left 32
dead and hundreds fleeing their homes. By Monday morning calm was
restored; relatives began burying their dead, families started
returning, and it appeared that the violence would not approach that
which displaced almost 400,000 people in 2012.
Though
actual hostilities stopped, the political war was just getting
started. The ruling Congress Party, about to face an unfamiliar
role out of power (See “India’s Impending Conservative Victory), tried to blame the violence on its rival BJP and the man likely to be India’s next Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
The
attackers, Bodo tribesmen, are Hindu, and their victims, illegal
infiltrators from Bangladesh, are Muslim. The Congress Party and
their allies on the left have long tried to paint Modi as a radical
Hindu, and even while the violence still raged, Congress’s beleaguered
Prime Ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi warned that 22,000 people would
be massacred if Modi became Prime Minister. Another cabinet
minister claimed that the BJP was using morphed pictures to spread
communal propaganda on social media but provided no proof of his
allegations.
As
a Muslim friend in India told me, however, Congress has ruled Assam for
24 years, is still in power, and created the current state of affairs
and “violence against Muslims of Assam.”
The
most intense fighting took place in Kokrajhar, a major Bodo center
where the air is full of political activism and resentment over an
unresponsive government. I was there in March, met with Bodo
leaders and activists, and observed conditions on the border between
Bangladesh and the contiguous Indian states of Assam and
Meghalaya. I also uncovered compelling evidence that tensions were
running high for some time.
Activists
told me that they are ready “to defend their homes and families” and
that the prospect of a Modi victory and government action was the only
thing stopping them from rebelling — for the moment. I got a
distinct impression that things could unravel at any time and wrote that
“the rising tensions on the border will explode unless the infiltration
[from Bangladesh] stops.”
For
years, Bodos and other tribal groups have been complaining bitterly
that the government’s refusal to stop massive infiltration by
Bangladeshi Muslims is destroying both their culture and the arboreal
environment that is so much a part of it. While in the areas, I
watched as Bangladeshis crossed into Assam brazenly in broad daylight
with no action by the Indian Border Security Forces who were supposed to
stop them. One border guard told locals who were protesting the
illegal migrants that their protests were futile and would earn them
nothing but opposition from “higher ups.” “Our hands are tied,” he
told them. The guards were nowhere to be found until I
photographed the border’s massive gaps and two of them tried
(unsuccessfully) to seize my camera.
Those conditions, that make Bodos fear for their people’s future, are the real cause of the violence.
In
July 2012, they took a stand against the illegal “infiltrators,” as
they are called, to indicate the deliberate attempt to change the area’s
demographics. After they did, Muslim mobs attacked those Bodos
who were too frail to leave their village for safety. I spoke with
the families of three victims who were hacked to death by Muslim
mobs. One elderly man described how he and his wife were sitting
under a tree on their property when the mobs swarmed their home, hacked
him with a machete which they then used to kill his wife. An
elderly widow told me that she was unable to flee so the Muslim mobs
attacked her and killed her bedridden and disabled husband.
Back
in the Assamese capital of Guwahati, a group of scholars at the
Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture describe how Bangladeshi
infiltrators have changed the area’s demography and disrupted the lives
of the Bodos and other Assam tribes. Their communities have been
dispersed and the forests, central to Bodo culture, face an
environmental catastrophe: de-forestation, reduction in crop
varieties, and near extinction of creatures like the one-horned rhino.
Even
though the fighting has stopped for now, tensions remain high.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told India to expect more
“climate refugees” from her country. The Bodos told me they are
ready for them.
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