Indian police shoot dead at least 8 from Assam tribe

[BATMAN]

Indian police shoot dead at least 8 from Assam tribe

GUWAHATI: Indian police shot at hundreds of tribesmen and women in the northeastern state of Assam on Tuesday, killing eight people, the state’s chief minister said, after violence broke out during village council elections.

Police were called to deal with protests by Rabha tribesmen and women who opposed the elections saying they infringed on tribal law, another senior government official said.

“Eight people have been killed in police firing in Rabha areas of Assam today,” Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in the state capital Guwahati.

A leader of the Rabha tribe said he held the government responsible for the deaths.

Angry tribesmen armed with swords, hatchets, spears and axes marched to polling stations from villages of the western Goalpara district, police officials said.

At least two people were killed by the mobs in the early hours of the day, said Bhupen Bora, a senior official of the state’s home department. reuters

Genocide!

 

[notsuperstitious]

Genocide? Get your noodle checked, if you still have it. And such pleasure at the site of death is indeed rare.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Good work, dozens if not hundreds would have been dead by the hands of armed tribesman if the police had not taken any action. No one has the right to oppose elections in India, absolutely no one.

 

[Black Widow]

Indian police shoot dead at least 8 from Assam tribe



Genocide!

Genocide is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group",[1] though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars.[2] While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[3]



In this case Police saved own a$$..

 

[ILLUMINATO]

From when does 8 kills qualifies for genocide ??And that too for preventing obstructions in election. Batman what's wrong with your commonsense??

 

[T90TankGuy]

^^ the OP starts foaming at the mouth ever time he sees a news topic which shows (according to him) India in a poor light. he should at least read the topic before he posts, but then i guess where he comes from, he is accustomed to people trying to stop the election process , and no one does any thing about it . the difference is this is INDIA.

 

[zootinali]

Local news need not to be discussed in pdf. but those 8 lives were lost in vain and in needless violence..Rabhas have been demanding for polls in Rabha HasongAutonomus (RHAC) council and proper demrcation of RHAC as accordance to ruling of Guwahati High court in 1995 ,for the protection of identity and culture of Rabha people from illegal encroachment. They had warned the incumbent Congress govt not to go ahead with panchayat polls unless election for RHAC is conducted first , but congress party confident of winning all the panchayat seats still went ahead and the resultant violence.. the congress govt. is to be blame here not the people who died..

 

[Skull and Bones]

From when does 8 kills qualifies for genocide ??And that too for preventing obstructions in election. Batman what's wrong with your commonsense??

He never had any in the first place, move on.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I thought the death toll was 13?

But to be fair, those Tribals were armed with machetes and spears, and had already set fire to hundreds of buildings.

 

[Koovie]

Those guys were ATTACKING the cops with knives, machetes and other stuff!!!

How the fukc would you have reacted if you have an assault rifle in your hands!

They did the right thing. And talking about genocide just shows your immaturity.

 

[angeldude13]

police did this to save their bums.

this is not genocide this is retaliation

 

[Koovie]

police did this to save their bums.

this is not genocide this is retaliation

No it was just pure self defense

 

[Fahad Khan 2]

May be ISI is behind this???.

 

[karan.1970]

Genocide of Indian police ...

Lack of comprehension of some Pakistanis ...

 

[Fahad Khan 2]

Lack of comprehension of some Pakistanis ...

i read it wrong