Jihadi attack in Assam?
A dozen bombs, at least fifty dead and more than three hundred injured…
The government remains clueless…
“It is very early to make a conclusion but ULFA has a history of triggering serial blasts,” Assam’s Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters minutes after the explosions.
even as “…ordinary people believe it as an HuJI attack and Congress government was protecting them by bringing ULFA’s name into picture.”
Their view is echoed by Assam Police:
“The needle of suspicion points to jehadi outfits who are behind subversive activities in the state,” IGP (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma said here.
The jehadi elements, including Bangladesh-based HUJI, could be working in groups or individually, the senior police official said the modus operandi pointed to their involvement.
“While investigation will go on, the police have been zeroing in on Islamic fundamentalist forces which of late have been active in the state and the region,” he said.
…Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner Prateek Hajela also suspected the involvement of HUJI militants [ link ]
All the blasts took place almost simultaneously…which suggests a high degree of sophistication and coordination.
Sad statistic of the day: With 19 bomb blasts over a period of last six years the Ganeshguri point of the Guwahati city is arguably one of the most bombed place of country. [ link ]
AÂ Roll Call of Terror:
Dec ‘05: New Delhi: Four Years, Two Attacks, One StoryÂ
Mar ‘06: Varanasi: Anger, tears and despairÂ
Jul ‘06: Mumbai: Blasts? What Blasts? ‘Yeh to hota hi rahta hai‘Â
Aug ‘07: Hyderabad: Another day, another blast – “Kuch nayee baat batao yaarâ€Â
May ‘08: Jaipur: Jihadi attack in Jaipur?Â
Jul ‘08: Bangalore: Blasts in Bangalore…3 killed alreadyÂ
Sept ’08: New Delhi “Dastardly terror blasts†in Delhi
Jul ‘08: Ahmedabad: Attack in Ahmedabad: Time to say NO MOREÂ
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well we r all clueless as to what is happening . advani says it is ‘huji hand’. congress says it is ULFA revenge for last weeks police action on the outfit. when will this madness end ? maybe lord krishna must take an ‘avtaar ‘ as the ‘paap’ of innocent killings goes on non stop.
We don’t need 50 years long investigation to prove, who blasted serial bombs in Asom. Asom local medias already highlighted it. Local Jihadis with support from Bangladesh Intelligence-ISI, and of coruse soft policy and support from their Congress.
Congress-led govt in Asom was quick to say, it was done by ULFA. It seems, ULFA guys live in CM’s house, so CM knows all. What a wonderful strategy of vote-banks, they need to protect anyhow Jihadi terrorists. Does muslims like this Congress game-plan?
If we look at the patterns of ULFA violence (they acknowledge what they does), it is 100% not ULFA work. ULFA targets are always govt, armys, etc. They never attack the natives, for whom they are fighting, with serial bomb blasts.
To protect Jihadi terrorists and their vote-banks, Congress fabricated Hindu terror term to intimidate Hindus and appease Jihadi vote-banks. Congress is the Mother of all Terror in India and Mother of all ills. Congress has transformed Asom into Islamic Bangladesh.
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Terror of the Time
Editorial, The Sentinel
Yesterday’s was one of the biggest terror strikes of recent times. That Asom would be the next target of the most criminal of terrorists, was not unknown. There have been intelligence reports, which this newspaper has had occasion to harp on, pointing to the sprouting of a gamut of jehadi groups in the State under the direct tutelage of Bangladeshi terror outfits and Pakistan’s ISI.
Only a few days ago did the Army gun down nine alleged Harkat-ul Jehadi Islami (HuJI) activists, all with Bangladeshi documents. The presence of HuJI and ISI agents in Asom — with the advantage of having to use illegal Bangladeshis as conduits — is known to all, and yet this so-called secular government has all along pretended otherwise because votes of the so-called minorities are more important for it than national security.
And for the Congress, in Asom, these ‘minorities’ are not indigenous Muslims, because it is the illegal Bangladeshis who are allowed to transform themselves overnight to ‘Indian minorities’ who would vote en masse for the Congress, their ‘secular’ saviour. The jehadis know it well, and the ISI has exploited that fact. Also, the manner in which Asom was rocked yesterday by serial blasts — a dastardly attack on the society — reflects on the spread of terror pattern in the country.
Let us not talk of the casualties — that is shocking. Let us rather talk of the scope that terrorists — whoever they may be — have got to perpetrate terror on an innocent humanity. Let us rather talk of the manner in which the terrorists have outwitted the government and its intelligence agencies. When such serial blasts of such magnitude take place in a span of 15 minutes or so, who do you really blame? Obviously the intelligence machinery ‘at work’. You must blame the inability of intelligence agencies to fan out, collect the right piece of information on the movement of terror groups and activities of their sleeper cells, analyse those bits of information, and arrive at a conclusion that can be acted upon — called actionable intelligence — to preclude terror from manifesting in its most lethal form. And then you must ultimately blame the supreme entity that lords over those failed intelligence agencies. So who is that entity? Obviously the government of the day.
Mr Tarun Gogoi, yesterday’s terror in the State must have jolted you. But we have been stating the obvious for long: that unless you open your eyes and admit to having made your State the most suitable breeding ground for jehadi groups — because the Congress is perversely obsessed with a bizarre brand of secularism — and unless you decide to act and strengthen your intelligence grid, Asom will remain the best choice for jehadi groups. Mr Chief Minister, you must bear the responsibility now; your government has presided over anarchy, nothing else. What a pity that one should still call it a functioning government! It is simply not. Does Mr Gogoi have anything sensible to say?
Editorial, The Sentinel, 31 Oct 2008, Guwahati
http://www.sentinelassam.com/
Beautiful Asom is burning again … and, this time, too, the cause is the infiltration by Bangla Muslims. ULFA (and prior to that, AASU) while fighting to protect Asom from the wave of illegal immigration always targeted the administration and the police, never the common folks of Asom. These dastardly bombs can only be the handiwork of the cowards – the HuJI.
It is really amazing to me that the muslim terrorist groups continuously attack civilian targets, and they are not isolated by their muslim civilian brethren. I can not believe or accept that these groups operate in a vacuum, with far flung supply chains, without taking support from their local co-religionists. And, if the *Indian* muslim population will not turn over these people to the police, preferring instead to look the other way, if not provide active logistical support, why do they then complain about isolation and ghetto-isation in India?
And, Shantanu, you can see how much Asom is part of our *national* consciousness – only 3 comments (including mine). None of our folks can be bothered about Asom – too far and too different.
And, BTW, I ask again of the many supporters of the Bajrang Dal and VHP on this site – why are they NOT in Asom? For once when we could really use them, they are MIA?
F***ing Cowards.
I am veering around to the view that Narendra Modi is now the only capable politician and administrator who can prevent India from being balkanised or from fighting a civil war with its muslim population.
I say this, without condoning what happened in Gujarat. But, the last six years tell me that Modi has actually learned something out of the carnage, which the rest of the BJP have not learned.
I also say this because every other politician seems to be either incompetent or compromised.
Also, I say this because I think Modi would not have let BJP commit hara-kiri on the nuclear deal like they did. Visa or no visa.
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we need to deeply think why this is happen, as oneself if someone gives u money and tells to make bombblast as you are satisfied,contet ,educated you will think,
but person who is unsatisfed ,whose thinking is not clear, readily accept or go into there trap. and help terror organstations.
its total failur of govt of india we need pm as a narendra modi who is clear in vision may be his vision wrong or correct but good thing is that he got vision
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Hi Patriot,
See my comment# 20 on the Assam problem vis-a-vis Bajrang Dal here:
https://satyameva-jayate.org/2008/10/07/clashes-in-assam/
Patriot,
On the one hand, you don’t want to be seen condoing Hindus retaliating (however feebly) to Islamic attacks in Gujarat.
But now, on the other hand, you want the Hindus to be “in action” in Asom whenever there is a Jihadi attack.
So, which one is it, my friend? You can’t have it both ways.
Looks like the Hindu organisations are damned if they don’t…. and damned if they do. 🙂
Mitesh,
The Jihadi’s ain’t doing it for the money, bro.
They are doing it for eternal orgies with the 72 Hurs (eternal virgins) and 28 Gilmans (young boys) promised by Allah in the Quran – for all Muslim men who fulfill their Islamic obligation of waging war on Kafirs.
Education or Poverty has nothing to do with Islamic Terror.
The entire Islamic leadership (including Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Sayyid Qutb, Mohammed Atta, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Syed Shahabuddin and of course, all our friends in SIMI & Indian Mujahideen) are smart, well-educated IT professiobals, engineers, doctors, lawyers, civil servants and scientists.
Over to you now, Tarique.. for your Taqiyya whitewashing propaganda.
Is there anything left to say? I wonder? When will we learn to say enough means enough! Not taking anymore! Are we waiting for something bigger than this…! absolutely No! Than, whats next? Blast or protest? got confused, Who will hear the voice of majority Hindus? Are’nt we recently conferred with new title of “Hindu Terror”? So my friend wait and watch till all blames pass down to Hindus and govt start taking the actions. Govt cannot do anything with Illegal Bangladeshi and thinking of ……banning…. this and that.
Jai Hind!
ISF-IM claims responsibility for Assam blasts
October 31, 2008 19:23 IST
Little-known Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahideen [Images] on Friday claimed responsibility for the serial blasts that killed 77 people in Assam and warned of more such attacks.
In an SMS message sent to local News Live television channel, the ISF-IM claimed responsibility for Thursday’s blasts and threatened to carry out more bomb explosions in several parts of the country.
The message said, “we thank all our holy members and partners” for successfully carrying out the task.
The SMS was received on the mobile of the channel’s input desk from a Reliance [Get Quote] connection with the number 9864693690.
The mobile phone was subsequently switched off and security forces traced it to Moirabari in central Assam’s Nagaon district registered in the name of one Nazir Ahmed.
Police officials are investigating the matter.
The outfit was formed in 2000 in Lower Assam’s Bodo-dominated areas “to counter” the Bodo Liberation Tigers and NDFB militants, police sources said.
The full text of the SMS is:
“We, ISF-IM, take the responsibility of yesterday blast. We warn all of Assam and India for situation like this in future. We thank all our holy members and partners. AAamin.”
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/31assam2.htm
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PS. Nagaon is the muslim majority district and most are illegal Bangladeshi JIhadis. This is one of the most dangerous places in Asom. Since 1947, thousands of Hindus were killed in this district and thousands of Hindus, mostly tribal Hindus either left their houses or ethnically cleansed.
Beware of voting congress-UPA to power
IndiaToday rightly called us, “IMPOTENT INDIA”.
http://specials.indiatoday.com/terror/index.shtml
From now onward, every time you vote for congress, you are voting for Jehadi terror, and Hindu persecutors and Hindu killers.
Every Hindu vote must go BJP. Otherwise, if someone from the Hindu community does a petty crime like robbery, Congress-UPA will call it ‘Hindu Terrorismâ€.
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And must read these voices, examples below.
http://specials.indiatoday.com/terror/voices.shtml
Jihadi voice:
If Allah wants, I’ll bomb the market where my mother buys vegetables. She will be sent to paradise.
– Zia-ur Rehman, Delhi bomber
Allah does miracles to save a jihadi, that is true.
– Saquib Nisar, Delhi bomber
A handful of Allah ke bande were able to paralyse the economic life of such a big country.
– Mohammed Shakeel, Delhi bomber
Jihadi supporters voice:
There should be a strong law (to deal with terror)…. A powerful law, not a failed law. POTA is a failed law.
– Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary and Congress MP
No, no, no. It (POTA) is a draconian (law) and against human rights. If the present anti-terror laws are implemented properly, there is no requirement for additional laws.
– Information and Broadcasting Minister PR Dasmunsi
Anti-terror voice:
By its inaction on the Afzal case, the UPA government has reduced the country’s image to that of a soft state.
– L. K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition
We have lost our best man.
– Delhi Police on Mohan Chand Sharma
The people who care about terrorists and terrorism are the ones who oppose strong laws.
– Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Gujarat
We need tough laws for giving punishment and for the progress of investigation. You cannot fight the high-tech terrorists of the 21st century with outdated laws of the 19th century. This increases the confidence of terrorists.
– Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Gujarat
@Bengal Voice:
“On the one hand, you don’t want to be seen condoing Hindus retaliating (however feebly) to Islamic attacks in Gujarat.
But now, on the other hand, you want the Hindus to be “in action†in Asom whenever there is a Jihadi attack.”
You miss my point entirely – maybe, because you have not read many of my comments previously.
My issue in Gujarat was with the government – the state was an active or passive participant in the pogrom against the muslims. But, the state CAN NOT do that – the primary responsibility of the state is to ensure law and order. If it fails to do that, then it has failed its primary contract with the citizens. The citizens can then decide not to pay any taxes or not to co-operate with such a state. I hope this point is clear.
RE: Bajrang Dal – as many older readers of this blog would be aware, I am being sarcastic – the BD has a nasty habit of picking on the innocent and the weak – essentially people who do not have the wherewithal to retaliate against them – as can be seen in Kandhamal and Mangalore. Also, plenty of instances from Kanpur and Lucknow.
So, I was just pointing out what a cowardly bunch they are that they are always MIA whenever there is a real opponent to confront.
I hope my above posts are clear now?
“Every Hindu vote must go BJP. Otherwise, if someone from the Hindu community does a petty crime like robbery, Congress-UPA will call it ‘Hindu Terrorismâ€.”
Setting off bombs in Malegaon is not a petty crime. If we carry on with this head in the sand approach, nothing can prevent an Indian Civil War.
“By its inaction on the Afzal case, the UPA government has reduced the country’s image to that of a soft state.
– L. K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition”
Was L K Advani not the Home Minister when they caved into the hijackers of IC814? And, *released* the man who set up Lashkar-e-Tayeba?
How short are our memories!
Slightly off topic but can any reader who is able to read Bengali verify this story for me?
http://sites.google.com/site/hindunow/hindu-in-bangladesh
Thanks
NOte: We don’t need to tell again and again.
Cost of life: But note again, three Jihadi terrorists were released to save life of 160 plus Indian citizens. We don’t think, life of 160 plus Indians were less than the value of three deadly Jihadi terrorists. Or they were Hindus, so their life value equals a Big ZERO?
Just for one person, daughter of Mufti Muhamemd Sayeed, terrorists were released. Mufti too was Home Minister, under VPO SIngh PM
Economic cost: Addition to cost of life, which is ireparable. Don’t ignore, one air-craft career costs about US$500 million.
No further reply.
I agree Bharat!
Right, so basically, there is no difference between L K Advani and Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. And, obviously no difference in the governance of BJP and VP Singh.
The ability to take hard decisions is what differentiates a tough state from a soft state – do you think Israel would have released even *one* terrorist? Even if the terrorists had 500 people hostage, leave along 160?
Are you aware of how the Russian forces freed up a school held by Chechnya terrorists?
And, how glibly we talk about the value of life and property, etc – and forget the lives lost and the property damaged by the LeT.
Obviously, to some people, if you are in a plane, your life has more value than the lives of those poor people lost to bombs, as a direct result of the first set of people being ransomed.
What hypocrisy.
@Shantanu:
The translation is largely correct – except for a few points:
1. The original article says that the Kali Temple was attacked on 28th night – it does not say during Diwali celebrations
2. The article says the temple was damaged and parts set on fire – no mention of any damage to any deity
3. 2 people were injured (does not say critically) in fighting off the attacks.
Thanks a lot Patriot…
http://renjithmn.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/root-cause-of-terrorism-in-india/
BTW, while we are on topic of ransoming Indian hostages, why are we not equally concerned about the Indian sailors currently held hostage by Somali pirates on MV Stoli????
Are their lives not important enough to even merit a post or a comment, either here or in the newspapers?
I guess not, after all most of these sailors are generally from the lower classes, who can not afford to buy a plane ticket.
Death toll now at 81…which makes it the worst terrorist attack in India this year?
Shame on our leadership…
The terrorists’ identity seems to be getting clearer…
even as ULFA appears to be loosing its “secular” sheen
Two greatest leaders of todays India, MM Singh and his Italian Master or other way, Italian Empress and his domestic servent MM SIngh went to Asom, to have a brief vacation, photography/TV show session, and celebrate the successful killing of Hindu masses with local Congress-Jihadi leaders, and thank them for the successful mission. This is what people of Asom and NE talking about and observed.
Else, what for they went to Asom. They didn’t go to visit the biggest Bomb Blasts site, which is less than 2 km distance from Asom Assembly.
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‘We Will…’
The Prime Minister, accompanied by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, was in the town on Saturday to ‘share’ the grief of Thursday’s blast victims — and that is what they can do at their best, for they have not chosen to know how terror is fought and they do not want to know what it takes to take on jehadi terror because votes of the ‘minorities’ are all that count. That said, even the symbolism of their visit was so incomplete this time. They did not think it necessary to visit the most devastated of all blast sites — Ganeshguri.
Or should we say the Tarun Gogoi government thought it highly risky to take them to Ganeshguri — the post-blast site of public protest of the highest degree against an effete and incompetent government? True, leaders who cling on to their own brand of electoral politics even when innocent citizens are butchered by jehadi perverts, do not have the guts to face the affected people.
So what did the Prime Minister say in Guwahati that day? He said his government ‘‘will punish’’ the perpetrators of Thursday’s crime, his government ‘‘will talk’’ to Pakistan and Bangladesh if the involvement of their terror outfits and intelligence agencies in the blasts is ‘‘established’’, and his government is ‘‘not soft’’ on terror. This is a huge joke on the people of Asom and the rest of the country.
For, this government has neither punished the perpetrators of terror who have had the jehadi credit of bleeding the country, including the notorious criminal Afzal Guru, nor has it the will to punish them lest ‘Muslim sensitivity’ be offended. And who are the Muslims that the Congress talks about? Not the modern, progressive and liberal among them. It is the illiterate and backward among them that the ‘secular’ party wants to cheat, as it indeed has — all these years. And what sense does it make when the Prime Minister says he ‘‘will talk’’ to Pakistan and Bangladesh if the involvement of their radical forces and intelligence agencies in the Asom blasts is ‘‘established’’?
What is there to establish? Nothing at all, for it is an established fact that the ISI has a presence in Asom and in the rest of the country, that the ISI has hijacked the ULFA’s agenda, and that jehadi outfits have sprouted in Asom in recent times mainly on the basis of support they have had from their masters in Bangladesh. So when the Prime Minister says ‘‘we will…’’, it indicates his unwillingness, driven by political compulsion, to act. And yet he says his government is ‘‘not soft’’ on terror. Are the people of the country all fools to believe that?
Well, if the Prime Minister really means his government is not soft on terror, he is actually asking the people to open the dictionary and read ‘‘hard’’ as ‘‘soft’’ and ‘‘soft’’ as ‘‘hard’’!
Editorial, The Sentinel, 3 Oct 2008, Guwahati
http://www.sentinelassam.com/
Asom and Hindus in Asom are in Grave Danger from Jihadi terrorists. Note, Marigaon has become Jihadi majority district due to illegal Bangladeshis.
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Threat to blow up temple
MORIGAON, Nov 3 – The priest of an ancient temple, Goranga, Morigaon district received three threat calls that the place of worship would be blown up by bombs, said a top district police official. Last night the priest of the Ram and Krishna temple near Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary received three calls from a mobile phone number 9961355107 that Goranga would be blown up by bombing, district superintendent of police Madan Chetia told PTI today.
The identity of the caller was yet to be ascertained and the service provider of the mobile number, Airtel, was being asked to provide the details of the phone number’s owner, Chetia said.
Security arrangements around the temple has meanwhile been tightened in view of the threatening calls, he added.
In view of the recent SMS to a private television news channel by Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujehudin claiming responsibility for the Thursday serial blasts in the state, the police was taking yesterday’s threat calls with utmost seriousness.
Investigations into the ISF-IM SMS revealed that at least 200 phones were being used in Morigaon district under false names and addresses with certificates provided by village headman, official sources said.
In this connection several mobile PCO owners were picked up for interrogation, the sources added.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=nov0408/at012
Excerpts from Enough evidence to go for terror’s jugular in Bangla by Anil Bhat
…Of course, Ulfa categorically denied its hand in these and ironically that could be the truth, but with a terrible twist. In my article A season of surrenders in Assam: How long, how far? (July 29) in The Asian Age, I wrote that Ulfa’s top leadership in Dhaka had been working hard at recruiting Bangladeshis to make up for heavy casualties suffered in operations by the Army and police since late 2006 and its loss of public support. Thereby it had no takers amidst the Assamese youth.
That many of these new Bangladeshi Ulfa “recruits” are members of Bangladeshi wing of Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (Huji-B) got confirmed on September 26 when, based on specific intelligence collected by mobile interceptors, Army launched an operation killing seven terrorists who had made an entry through Dhubri district bordering Bangladesh. Seven automatic pistols, three radio sets, a large quantity of explosives, detonators and documents besides Bangladeshi, Indian, and Chinese currency notes were recovered from the dead terrorists. What also emerged was that in their plans of bomb blasts, Guwahati was one of their main targets.
A look at the district map of Assam provides pointers to the map of destruction on October 30. Going clockwise from Assam’s Western-most district, Dhubri, are the four targeted districts of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta and Kamrup, in which Guwahati is located. The attacks owe its success to deployment of operatives in these districts, effective networking and communication, sufficient quantity of explosives, transport for mobility and money.
…Posted by jagoindia.com on May 26, 2008, is a report, titled Survival 2007, co-authored by Aodangnok, president of the Ao Students’ Conference (Ao Kaketshir Mongdang, AKM), and Jamir, its vice-president and convener, that merits mention here.
In pursuance of Survival 2007 campaign, the AKM undertook a comprehensive investigation on the problem of unabated influx of illegal migrants into the state and the region, particularly from Bangladesh: “We discovered that although influx of illegal migrants to Nagaland is purportedly economic-driven, the imminence of a sinister politico-religious design of some external fundamentalist agencies cannot be ruled out”.
Information they garnered was:
The Muslim League had in 1947, prior to India and Pakistan’s Independence, drawn a political map of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which indicated the whole of present-day Northeast India falling within East Pakistan territory. Basing on this, some utopian fundamentalist Islamic agencies are reportedly endeavouring to carve out an Islamic state out of NE India and then assimilate it with Bangladesh to form “Greater Bangladesh” or “Brihot Bangladesh” or “Bangistan,” as they term their utopian Islamic State.
Brigadier D.K. Bux of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and Abdul Hasan Muadish, founder of Jamat-e-Islam, met in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 15, 2004 and jointly declared “Operation Pin Code”. The reported objective of Operation Pin Code is to cause havoc and corruption in Northeast India. The Islamabad-based Islamic Development Bank has sanctioned $35 million for the Operation. Muttahida Jihad Council (United Jihad Council) of Jammu and Kashmir is also reported to have been roped in to spread bloodshed in India’s Northeast region.
The Islamic Bank of Saudi Arabia sponsors, up to a sum of Rs 100,000, any Muslim migrant who marries a local woman. This perhaps helps them further their utopian and sinister design of Islamitisation of Northeast India by distorting the very social fabric of the indigenous peoples of the state and the region.
The Muslim Liberation Front of Burma, led by Maulana Abdul Qadir Mullah, is cooperating with the Bangladeshi Islamic extremists to further their cherished dream of carving out “Greater Bangladesh”. This nexus is financed by the Saudi Arabia-based Rabitat-al-Islami.
Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islamic (Huji), under the leadership of Sheikh Farid and based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, was formed under the patronage of Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda to further their “Greater Bangladesh” dream.
Further, AKM once again strongly reiterates that not a single illegal migrant shall be allowed to walk the Naga soil within “our traditional jurisdiction”.
Pakistan’s military establishment and ISI have effectively exploited India’s communal politics and succeeded in establishing a country-wide terrorist network with tie-ups and outsourcing. It is high time that India’s leaders at the Centre and states avoid clichéd rhetoric and political semantics and instead tighten intelligence and optimise security resources to go for terror’s jugular without getting side-tracked by new nomenclatures.
Anil Bhat, a retired Army officer, is a defence and security analyst based in New Delhi
Why we need Bajrangdal type organizations? Who else will protect Hindus and Hindu interests. Govts at centre openly promote chrsitian missionaries by rewarding them national awards (Australian missioanry terrorist was given Padma Shri award for converting HIndus into chrsitianity in Orissa), printing chrsitian Cross on rupess, christian haj subsidy, three days mourning for death of pope or sope, and list goes on.
After transforming Nagaland for Christ, now these missionary terrorists started crusade to make Asom for christ or whole NE for christ. Asom Congress govt is doing all as per instructions from Congress party chief, who is an agressive anti-Hindu chrsitian missionary herself (under covert mask).
Hindus need to unite, act and save their dharma, cutlure, brethens and the nation. Christian missionary terrorists aggressive invasions must be met by more stronger retaliaiton actions. Don’t bother anti-hindu sickular forces hue and cry.
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‘Government attitude will end Vaishnavite culture’
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Nov 8: The Asom Xatra Mahasabha’s youth wing –– Samanwita Yuva Tirtha –– today voiced its protest against the arrival of Christian missionaries from Nagaland in the riverine island of Majuli, which is also the seat of Vaishnavite culture. The missionaries are entering the State with the support of a Nagaland group –– Chakesang.
Addressing mediapersons at a press meet in the city today, Sanmawita Yuva Tirtha general secretary Dibyojyoti Saikia today demanded immediate eviction of the missionaries and said that the lackadaisical attitude of the government will soon result in the extinction of Vaishnavite culture in the State.
It should be noted that Christian missionaries had made inroads into Majuli earlier as well. The Government had evicted the group after facing vehement protests from social and youth organizations of the island. The youth wing of the Asom Xatra Xabha today alleged that the missionaries were able to come back since the government had not taken the issue seriously.
Accusing the government of protecting the missionaries for vote bank politics, Saikia said, “A lot of Bangladeshis had also encroached upon the Xatra land of Majuli. Now Christian missionaries are also following suit. Even after facing so much protests, the Government has been unable to evict the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. If the government does not change its attitude, it won’t be able to evict the missionaries as well.†He further added, “If this continues, Vaishnavite culture is bound to become extinct.â€
http://www.sentinelassam.com/
The Sentinel, Guwahati, 9 Nov 2008
Rights groups silenced by Asom blasts?
DATELINE Guwahati/Wasbir Hussain
The serial blasts in Asom seem to have silenced the otherwise shrill voices of human rights groups in the State and elsewhere. I have not read all the newspapers or watched all the news on television, and may have missed out the odd condemnation of the October 30 bomb attacks by some rights groups. But, after scanning through lots of newspapers and the Net, I discovered that most better known rights groups have not said a word on the ghastly crime that turned out to be the worst terror attack in India in recent memory. After all, 87 people being killed and more than 800 injured in a string of nine massive and well coordinated RDX-based explosions is no simple act of terror.
I did find a rights group called the Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) petitioning the Prime Minister, seeking a ‘fair enquiry’ into the blasts and describing it ‘a blow to humanity.’ But what about the better known rights groups in Asom, the North-east or the country? Maybe some such groups have condemned the attacks, but is that enough? We have seen various segments of the society taking to the streets in Asom — lawyers, students, including students from the madrassas, film and cultural personalities, traders, politicians and others — protesting against the acts of terror directed against innocent people. Why is it that human rights groups have not taken to the streets to protest or express their anger at the dastardly killings?
Terrorism, irrespective of whether it is perpetrated by the State or insurgents, must be condemned and cannot be accepted. However, the tendency among most rights groups in conflict zones is to come out strongly against real or even imaginary excesses committed by the State or its security forces but keep quiet on similar excesses committed by non-state actors. The bomb raids that killed so many people and maimed hundreds for life has been one of the worst cases of human rights violations by some bands of trigger-happy men. The tragedy is that most rights groups have preferred to remain silent on the issue.
It is because of this double-standard that most rights groups in conflict zones, including the North-east, lack credibility. The lack of credibility has, in fact, affected the human rights movement in the region because even if these groups raise issues of excesses by the State in the right perspective, people, including most in the media, tend to take them with a pinch of salt. As someone who has been studying the conflict dynamics in the North-east for two-and-a-half-decades, I know the background of several rights groups active in the region. But, if they have to achieve their own goals, a certain amount of objectivity is necessary.
Unfortunately, some of South Asia’s best known rights groups, too, have preferred to keep quiet on the Asom blasts. Representatives of several leading rights groups, including Amnesty, have visited Asom in recent weeks and have interacted with people here. But, it is a pity they have decided not to speak out at this critical juncture. Actually, there is a scope or need to sensitize the rights groups in conflict zones like the North-east. And this can be done by the better known rights groups or activists engaged in work across South Asia.
Post-October 30, Asom is witnessing a mass upsurge against terror. This actually is an outpouring of people’s anger against killings and violence. If terror has no religion or boundary, the people who are coming out on the streets to oppose terror, too, have no religion or boundary. It is a fight against mindless acts of violence. It is a battle against madness. If such a silent revolution has the potential to corner the perpetrators of terror and make them irrelevant, it can also make the rights groups redundant. That is the reality.
The Sentinel, Guwahati 15 Nov 2008
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When will the carnage end?
30th Oct ’08: 87 people killed in serial blasts across Assam
2nd Dec ’08: 5 killed in bomb blast on a train in Diphu
1st Jan ’09: 6 killed in blasts in Guwahati
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