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Of RebellionAnd Death

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Of RebellionAnd Death
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The attack in Kokrajhar was, however, undoubtedly the more shocking of the two. According to survivor Babulal Yadav, the Bodo rebels had descended on Dadgiri village—about 100 yards from the border with Bhutan—at 1.30 in the morning, woken the villagers up, taken the male members of every household to a nearby pig market, lined them up and fired indiscriminately at them. While taking the villagers away, the Bodo insurgents had apparently told the women members of their families that "their men would be sent back in the morning".

Police officials say the ndfb has a major base in Bhutan, barely 15 km from the massacre site. According to them the rebel hit squad made its way back into this hideout after finishing with their bloody operation.

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Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has said the flushing out of ULFA and NDFB rebels from their bases in Bhutan through a joint operation of Indian and Bhutanese troops is the only way to contain the violence. He added that unlike the international border with Pakistan or Bangladesh, the Centre was not taking Assam’s 266-km-long border with Bhutan seriously.

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