Posted on 09/22/2005 2:40:55 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
More than 20,000 tribes people have come on to the streets of a remote district of India's West Bengal state to demand a separate tribal homeland. The Rajbongshi tribes people are blocking roads a day after violent protests had left five dead and more than 100 injured.
Police killed two people on Tuesday when they fired on protesters who went on the rampage, killing three officers.
The state government has sent a huge number of troops to quell the unrest.
Armed groups
Intelligence officials say tension is high, with the Rajbongshis demanding an inquiry into Tuesday's police shootings.
Police had used baton charges and then fired to break up the Rajbongshis in Koch Bihar.
Fierce clashes followed, with two of the lynched officers reportedly having their eyes gouged out.
The Rajbongshis are a large tribe inhabiting northern Bengal and districts in the neighbouring state of Assam and in northern Bangladesh.
Their kings ruled over the princely state of Koch Bihar until it merged with India after the British left.
For several years, the Rajbongshi tribesmen in northern Bengal have been demanding the creation of a separate state they want to be called Kamtapur.
The demand has been pursued both by political groups and underground armed groups representing the Rajbongshis.
Nice bunch. Hang the policemen and gouge out their eyes.
I think I'd want these savages to secede if it were my country. I know next to nothing about India. Why would India not want them to break off? Natural resources in the area?
My favorite book about India is really more about America. By DINESH D'SOUZA. Is that pronounced Go
Island, Our Man? Guff? Is the violence associated with the disputed region? Can you fix the break of day?
3:15 in the early here. Donald Trump just got the go ahead for a development at 24th St. and Camelback. The height limit will be 140'. Donald wants 150'. Lots of
groups mad about it, progress or something. Hope they don't resort to gouging each other eyes out.
India is a country of hundreds of different ethnic groups. If some succeeded in breaking away, perhaps the whole nation would fragment into " 100 Bosnia's", as one poster put it.
Something like " goff".
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