Inside The 20-Fold Surge In Assam’s Encounter Killings
Under BJP chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state has recorded more than 200 police ‘encounters’ since 2021, with over 80 killed and 180 injured. The encounters evoke memories of the 1990s’ ‘secret killings’ of over 400 separatists and their sympathisers by unidentified killers.
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Three men picnicking a week before the new year were shot by Assam police and accused of travelling to join a militant group. Two more police encounters followed the same week, and one suicide, on the heels of three grenade blasts. Under Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state has recorded more than 200 police ‘encounters’ since 2021, with over 80 killed and 180 injured. The encounters evoke memories of the 1990s’ ‘secret killings’ of over 400 separatists and their sympathisers by unidentified killers.
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Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra
On Tuesday, Congress workers had allegedly broken barricades as they were stopped from entering Guwahati during the march.
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Fury is past, nothing but fear: Reflections on Moinul Haque’s killing in Assam, one year later
A meditation on the relationship between ritual and politics in New India. Suraj Gogoi writes.
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Frame rules to investigate ‘love jihad’ cases, Himanta Biswa Sarma tells Assam Police
The chief minister claimed that the Hindutva idea, which critics have debunked, was the major reason behind forceful religious conversions.
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In Assam, a police crackdown on child marriage leaves a trail of crying women and broken families
Many claim that the action is politically motivated, targeting Muslims of Bengali origin.
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Assam Police Arrest Over 2,200 in Child Marriage Crackdown; 'Families Torn Apart,' Say Kin
Reports say that several women across the state have demonstrated at police stations and sought the release of their husbands and family members, saying that the move had left families without primary earners.
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Reports say that several women across the state have demonstrated at police stations and sought the release of their husbands and family members, saying that the move had left families without primary earners.
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CM Himanta Biswa Sarma ‘completely’ dissociates himself from the ‘unwarranted’ letter written by a superintendent of police with the special branch
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Mathrubhumi English
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