Warning sounded by the National Commission for Minorities in its report
There is a possibility that Muslims in the Bodo districts of Assam will turn “militant,” influenced by jihadi outfits from across India, in case their security is not ensured by the State government. This warning was sounded by the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) in its report on the recent communal violence in Assam and has been communicated to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. The report was prepared after it visited the conflict-torn districts in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) and Dhubri district in Assam.
The NCM delegation, which included Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed and NCM member K.N. Daruwalla, visited Kokrajhar, Gossaigaon, Dhubri and Bilasipara in July. Its report said the cause of the riot originated from the conflict between the Bodos and the resident Muslims of BTAD, and not between Bangladeshi migrants and the Bodos, even though it said infiltration from Bangladesh did take place throughout the year.
“The conflict this time as far as we could see was not between some exodus of Bangladeshi immigrants and the Bodos but between the Bodos and the resident Muslims of the BTAD.”
“The conflict was unequal because the Bodos had leftover arms from the Bodo Liberation Tigers [AK 47 etc]. The Muslims are very poorly armed in comparison,” the minority panel report said, with a warning about the potential jihadi influence on the Muslim population in Bodoland.
“There can be grave danger in future in case militant jihadi outfits from the rest of the country start supplying lethal weapons in this area,” it said.
The panel has also recommended the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the major incidents of violence during the riots in the State as “this will restore confidence in the justice delivery system.”
It has also called for a “serious and detailed dialogue” between the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Assam government, and the Bodoland Territorial Council. Such an interaction, it said, was “absolutely essential.” The report also observed that the Bodos think that “driving out other ethnic people’’ was in their interest and that is why the NCM delegation told the Chief Minister that “Bodos need to be told firmly that they cannot under any circumstances engineer a mass exodus of the non-Bodos and that they would never get statehood this way.”
“Be forceful”
Accusing the administration of failing to stop the first round of violent clashes between Muslims and Bodos in the BTAD areas, the delegation told the Chief Minister to instruct the police to be “more forceful with both Bodos and Muslim criminals.”
“We were also left with the distinct impression that the lower rungs of the police were afraid of taking action against the Bodos, possibly because of the armaments they possessed and the fact that they ruled the area,” observed the delegation.
Conditions “pathetic”
While visiting the camps of the Bodo and Muslim victims who fled after their homes were gutted down and looted by arsonists, the delegation expressed concern at the “pathetic condition of the camps where Muslims were housed’’ and noted that overcrowding was a major problem.
Describing the condition at the Grahampur high school camp in Gossaigaon district, the report said: “This was a horrendous camp with 6,569 inmates from 31 villages.”
Keywords: National Commission for Minorities, Assam violence, Bodoland Muslims, Bodo-Muslim clashes, ethnic violence
after going through the report one can only arrive at a conclusion that whosoever wrote the report was completely baised towards one group and was trying to fuel the anger of one community. this will only lead towards anarchy and feeling of resentment. for once look beyond your religion and grow up, or leave the job since you are not fit to be preparing reports which is of national importance and need unbaised people.
The Commission's members speaking /writing provocative narratives like this are liable to be booked for spreading hatred, promoting violence and spreading false rumours. To suggest that Bangladeshis will take up arms is a deliberate attempt to spread the communal fire.
Sending a delegation of the National Minorities Commission to Assam was bad in law and violative of the Constitution. Law & Order is a state subject and the attempts of central government to stoke communal fire is deplorable.
Look at the language of the report as if they were being vengeful.
What was need to write the following
- “The conflict was unequal because the Bodos had leftover arms from
the Bodo Liberation Tigers [AK 47 etc]. The Muslims are very poorly
armed in comparison,”.
Do they want Muslims to be provided with AK-56 to be better armed?
The could have simply wrote that some Bodos were armed with AK-47.
This was a biased article full of vengeance masquerading as National
Minority Commission report.
What happened in Mumbai and Allahabad?
If you give a biased report we also have right to give a biased comments or the hard truth is that Bodos have been treated as second class citizens in their own state for decades. only recently BTAD areas saw some development. we can say since 2003....before that those areas were neglected by assam govt. and about facilities and powers used by only Bodos in BTAD areas, what was it during direct rule from assam govt, who wielded power? The so called mainstream Assamese burnt houses of the Bodos in Gophur, Sonitpur during bodoland movement.And you call bodos terrorist?, it was Bodo peoples last resort, because peaceful demands were not made. Read history about Dhubri, Goalpara and above all History of Assam, and write things, we accomodated people from Bangladesh. Now it is alarming even forest areas in Bhutan border area are encroached by this migrants, so if the Govt or the administration do not take action according to law, people of the soil will take.
thank u, am not biased
Totally agree with the other
readers! Very biased report.
And above that, this is like
inviting the other Muslims
also to be jihadis by
stating that the Muslims are
being ill treated in Assam
and bodos are attacking
umarmed muslims with AK-
47!!! I hope these so called
minority panel (NCM) decide
to become Indians first.
What an open warning/challenge to the Indian citizens by the NCM...how can a National commission instead of trying to peacefully resolve the already heated situation in Kokrajhar, Assam are trying to fuel it by warning of jihad by the muslims. this is very shameful report by the NCM. and i wander why there is not a single line about the plight of Bodos...what a biased report.
It is sad that what has been an ethnic problem between Bodos and
Bangladeshi immigrants have been pictured as Muslims vs the North
Easterns. What has been happening in the Deccans, it sure is bound to
find resonance in the North Eastern states and that has a potential to
raise the militant tendency in the NE States which will only end with
their cessation of the NER from the Indian Union.
The so called minority commission has only Muslim members. What kind of report you
expect from them ?
Pathetic report.
wrong report, and the intention of the report itself is to increase the
communal problem. the minorities panel is against human beings.
Muslims always feel insecure until they are in a majority and they can wipe out the minority
like they did in Pakistan and Bangladesh;
No community should be pushed to the wall and forced to take desperate measures.
Evolve Indians Evolve.
The findings of this report are nothing but rubbish. The statement that
the affected muslim people might take up arms should not be made public
on forums like these.I respect the Muslims in our country as much I do the people of other
faiths and I believe they are sensible enough not to get carried away by
stuff like these.
I lived briefly with the Bodos in Karbi Anglong in early 1990's and travelled extensively in the 'seven sisters' area. At that time the region was being overrun by Bangladeshi migrants and tensions were explosive. The problem should have been fixed then, but then India is known for her reactive, not proactive culture. If I was a Bodo, Mizo, or other tribe (Indians who should be protected by their government) I would retaliate too. India is too soft and her vote-seeking, visionless, corrupt, petty politicians are her primary nemesis and culprit. It is not too late for India to ensure her NE states don't become an asylum for Bangladeshis. I feel for my fellow citizens, Bodos whose pleas fall on deaf ears. Enough of migration, Muslims or otherwise. This is not a religious issue, but simply one of natives protecting their ancestral lands from endless encroachment .
Nobody sees it beyond religion. A person who does think for his country beyond religion are all aliens. Whoever works as fundamentalist should be booked for they are aliens.
"There is a possibility that muslims in Bodo district of Assam will turn millitant." When I read this I felt it a militant group's threaten and not as a warning of a fact finding committee. If the higher ups behaving like this, it is needless to blame layman. "Infiltration from Bangladesh did take place throughout the year." From their words it is clear that NCM is trying to trivialise a serious issue which is pausing threat to the integrity of our country. I think inorder to strengthen their vote bank the ruling front allowing these infiltrations which is the root cause these violences.
THE NCM is a governing body with issues related to all minorities in India. They NCM report the genuine problem faced by minorities in assam and the fact is that India being one of the largest secular and democratic country in the world, every now than only particular minority is either blamed or targeted based on their religious identity.
I can assure you that genuine muslim unless harmed or targeted will never get violent specially Indian Muslim.
Some miscreants and communal party are inciting the violence under the security cover for the benefit of their own interest.
They are many states in India where majority population is more than minority community but minority community never do such claims why and how the population has increased.
Recent years their is trend in media and other community to blame the entire community bcz of one person wrong doing.
To make it short minority community people are more loyal & has more tolerance to accommodate the suffering of Indian people.
Such kind of national commission giving state govt. suggestion that the situation during violence was in favour of bodos due to left-over arms by bodo militants really make a mockery of the fact that these committes are not creating an environment of harmony, but is polluting it.
I think the Hindu's report on the Assam incidents , the Hindu's editorial on Bombay
repercussions and the Hindu's reports on these issues as also the above article are all one
sided and do not seem to reflect the views of majority of its readers!
It is a shame that omce again the Muslim minorities are being persecuted while the state watches idly. The rise of militancy is guaranteed when the rights of minorities cannot be protected in their own lands.
riots are due to vote bank politics.politicians have failed to safeguard
our country.this report tries to terrorise us.foreign migrants must be
expelled at all costs
No body wants to accept the truth behind the violence including
minority panel,such biased report was not expected from a constitutional
authority.this report may or may not help the plight of minority but
they will certainly help outrage more violence and
radicalization,militancy..Instead of taking a overall view they are
indirectly recommending that minority should also have deadly arms to
fight with Bodos.Atleast now come out of the policy of appeasement and
think country as a whole,rather than serving the interest of
politicians the constitutionally independent panel should have taken a
independent and objective view of the problem and should have given the
real suggestion to the problem.
Such a biased report. Today the entire Assam is crying out about the
migrants and Mr. Syeda Hameed flies from out of nowhere and
tries to give it such a communal color. Its unfortunate that's still
today the govt. is trying to appease the vote bank-muslims and don't
have the guts to give unbiased report. They are trying to fool the
entire country and it is people like him who are instigating muslims all
over India.
Totally agree with the other readers! Very biased report. And above that, this is like inviting the other muslims also to be jihadis by stating that the muslims are being ill treated in assam and bodos are attacking umarmed muslims with AK-47!!! I hope these so called minority panel decide to become Indians first.
The National Commission for Minorities report has nothing to say about the plight of Bodos affected by the recent violence.
NCW should confirm the facts and publish the truth instead of giving a baselesss report. The language itself speaks " There is a possibility " and “The conflict this time as ---muslims of the BTAD" which means they are not exactly sure what they are taking about. Rather they should have tried to find the root cause of the issues and provided a solution to pacifiy the situation.
After going through this article, I can only see the blackmailing tactics of NCW. When they know about the jihadi outfits. What measures are they taking to control the muslims for not joining it.
Incidents happening at the Assam are unfortunate, One should try to find the real cause of the issue and find a solution and provide humanitarian assistance.
Can NCW publish why Muslims doesn't have a power to think beyond religion and not to join the outfits. They should join Nation building process as Jains, Buddists, Sikhs, Christains, Zoratrians etc. NCW are these communities are not minority ?????
I think the term of minority should be clearly defined as in
Assam there are more than 30 per cent of the assumed minorities and
the population of the ethnic people in this case BODO's amount to only 5 percent .So who is minorority here?.
Also it is mentioned that some migration from Bangladesh did
take place throughout the year.In a place called called Hajoi in
Assam as per 2001 census the population of that place was 35, 752 and
as per 2011 census the population was 3,47,627. Is such crossing of
border allowed ?
This kind of report will add salt to injury to already divided society. Who are the members of the Minority Commission? This is a shame. So they want to make some people as jihadists or force the government terrorize the people even more. This provoking headline should also be edited, this is not the way of presenting news lest it can be done otherwise.
totally biased report
Blinded by faith
Why can't you see beyond religion and from the view point of an Indian
Citizen
What a communal report! The members of Planning Commission ought to
have had sympathy for all affected communities. Nobody wants to feel
insecure in their land. These kind of reports from committees only
further increase communal divide. Shame on those who wrote this report.
The genuine concerns expressed by the minorities panel must be examined by the weight of its truth.
Appeasement could result into promotion of such threats from different communities. Govt. should take lessons from Anna movement..No Appeasement should be the policy.
as i think this report is fully biased ,they are not giving the real view what actually is happening in BODOLAND. this report have a great chance to promote the jihad activity in that area.these types of report are very important for nation,so they should not be biased. the actual reason for assam riots are bangladeshi migrants and nothing else....
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