Unless the tribal and illegal migrants’ issues are genuinely addressed, tensions which have simmered for years, will continue to escalate into bloody confrontations again and again.
With a rapidly improving general security scenario and declining residual militancy, the “culture of economic blockades” has the potential to provide the insurgents fertile grounds to revive rapidly dwindling support among the masses.
The splintering of militant groups in Assam over the issue of talks has resulted in the persistence of violence in the state, despite significant advances towards a negotiated settlement