After the brutal massacre of nearly 70 adivasis from Assam’s vulnerable tea garden tribes, including small children and babies, by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbjit) faction, CPI(ML) has been consistently intervening to demand that the State Government and Central Government take responsibility to provide immediate relief, and subsequent rehabilitation and safety to the adivasis of Assam; also that they take steps to ensure a political solution to pending territorial and ethnic conflicts and insurgencies.
CPI(ML) has been pointing out that the policies of successive governments in Assam and the Centre – including the present Modi government – is essentially to pit vulnerable sections against each other, rather than addressing long-standing conflicts and grievances. Assam has witnessed political parties making opportunist deals with a variety of militant groups, and using ‘ceasefire’ groups to unleash violence time and again. The NDFB (S) had indulged in massacre of Muslim minorities earlier in 2014 during the Lok Sabha polls. At that time, the BJP sought to benefit electorally from the massacre unleashed on Muslims by the NDFB (S). In Assam, right from the day of the massacre, CPI(ML) has been holding protests against the massacre and intervening to ensure immediate relief and rehabilitation. In Delhi, the AISA-led JNUSU called for a protest at Jantar Mantar against the massacre.
