Sunday, January 11, 2009

Assam : Another Kashmir in the Making?

Terrorist attacks are claiming more civilian lives in India's northeast than in Jammu and Kashmir. The region is also witnessing more insurgency-linked violence. According to latest central home ministry figures, there were 1,489 incidents of violent incidents in the northeast in 2007 compared to about 1,000 in Jammu and Kashmir.
(Source: http://news.indiainfo.com/2008/04/23/0804231242_north_east_terror.html
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Here we look at the reasons for terrorism in the North-East, particularly Assam, which has been a victim of a number of bomb blasts recently.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10065906/Assam-Infiltration

Although the IMDT Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2005, the deep rooted problem does not have an easy solution because of difficulties in identification, false citizenship certificates and vote bank politics.


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