BLOODSHED IN BODOLAND
THE EXODUS CONTINUES ! A fire exploded at Kokrajhar and even before anyone could react, it spread for hundreds of miles all around and engulfed a significant part of Bodoland (India’s Biggest tragedy-a Bridge too far, Cover Story, OUTLOOK, Aug 13,2012) It continued for days fuelled by firing, killing, arson and every inhuman act one can think of...........leaving innumerable homeless and forced to move to unknown destinations...........a mass aimless exodus ! All this didn’t happen overnight, the fire was simmering since long, the smoke was being seen and smelt by all concerned except for our protective machinery including the police, law and the government, who in the true spirit of being Gandhian , are deaf, dumb and blind !Had heard and seen pictures of mass exodus during the Indo-Pak partition…