18th commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples at Kokrajhar
09/08/2012:Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples North East Zone (ICITP), an umbrella Organisation of 212 tribes in the North East India and Peoples’ Joint Action Committee for Boroland (PJACBM) are while jointly observing the 18th commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples at Kokrajhar today amid the turmoil situation, expressed deep sorrow over the incidents of the present communal clashes between the simple, straight forward and peace loving Boro Indigenous People and the hostile Bangladeshi Muslim migrants settlers provoked and aided by some miscreants across the Indo-Bangla boarder.
This incident broke out
suddenly and took communal colour following the gruesome murders of four Boro
Indigenous youths by some unidentified miscreants belonging to Bangladeshi
Muslim migrants at Jaipur, a Muslim village which is just one kilometer away
from the Kokrajhar Police station on 19 July at about 8 pm, reportedly
instigated by some armed anti-social elements who have penetrated from across
the international boarder through Dhubri and took shelter in the Muslim
dominated villages to deliberately create social tension inciting for communal
violence between the native Boros and the migrant shelters.
As deep rooted main
stream political conspiracy is continuously and actively working to destroy the
ethnic separation of sub-nationlities by encouraging migration to the
sub-nationality region with an objective to swamp the locals, specially the
Indigenous Peoples of Assam and other states of North East India with huge
numbers of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants-usually ethnic groups loyal to the
government for the purpose of diluting the culture and identity of the local
Indigenous peoples and for the vote bank politics forcing Bangladeshization.
The communal violence of
1950 (Boro-Muslim immigrants), 1983 (Assamese-Muslim immigrants), 1993
(Boro-Muslim immigrants), 1996 (Bodo-Santal), 2005 (Karbi-Dimasa), 2008
(Boro-Muslim immigrants), 2009 (Dimasa -Naga), 2011 (Garo-Rabha) and now the
(Boro-Muslim immigrants) are nothing but a calculated designs of the mainstream
dominant society driven governments to uproot and exterminate the marginalised
Indigenous Peoples of Assam.
Interestingly, the
Government of Assam only oversaw the expansion of the recent communal violences
because the riots did not affect the mainstream dominant Assamese society.
The present situation of
communal violence of Assam has turned out to be very serious and worsening day
by day spreading in other parts of Assam which have already claimed more than
73 innocent lives belonging to Indigenous Boro and illegal Bangladeshi Muslim
migrants. Several villages are burnt down and more than 4,000, 00 people are
rendered homeless who are presently taking shelter in more than 270 relief
camps after being forced to flee their homes for their lives. Though, the
present situation appeared to be improving slightly but internally remained
alarming due to lack of adequate security arrangement and failure of the
Government to tackle the situation effectively, especially failure to nib the
continued provocations to indulge in communal clashes by the reportedly
presence of external forces in the Muslim dominated villages.
Thus the Indigenous
Peoples of Assam, specially Boro and other ethnic tribes are facing
the brunt of systematic political designs of slow extermination in
their own land and territories.
We on behalf of the
Indigenous Peoples of the region, strongly urge the government to
1) stop
the communal clashes immediately;
2) arrest
the culprits involved in designing and fomenting the communal clashes;
3) provide
adequate security arrangement in sensitive areas and to provide immediate
sufficient relief
materials
including food, drinking water,
clothes and medicines
in the relief camps of
communal
clashes belonging to both communities;
4) provide
adequate compensation to the bereaved families and injured victims
of
communal clashes;
5). stop
unabated influx of Bangladeshi migration into Assam and identify and
deport
all the illegal settlers in Assam;
6). clear the Tribal Belts and Blocks from illegal encroachers in Assam;
7). update
NRC of Assam on the base year of 1951.
8). implement the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(UNDRIP) to protect the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Assam.
Sd/-
Sd/-
(Jebra Ram
Muchahary) (Sanmoni
Kemprai)
President General
Secretary
Sd/-
Sd/-
(Eren
Basumatary) (Manjil
Basumatary)
Member,
PJACBM Member,
PJACBM
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