(24 Dec 2014)
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Kokrajhar, Assam - 24 December 2014
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1. Tribal settlers protesting the violent attacks by blocking a railway track
2. Protesters setting fire to effigies
3. Train on the tracks which has been blocked by the protesters; security personnel around the train
4. protesters burning the effigies and throwing stones at them
5. Pan of protesters holding hands and shouting slogans
Kokrajhar, Assam - 23 December 2014
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6. tribal settlers of Assam receiving treatment in a hospital after being attacked
7. Various of injured women in the hospital
STORYLINE:
Long-simmering land and ethnic disputes erupted in bloodshed in northeastern India when rebels launched coordinated attacks on tribal settlers in Assam state, killing at least 63 people, officials said December 24th 2014.
Many of those killed were women and children, police said.
The killings took place in five attacks late Tuesday targeting tribal settlers known as Adivasi, who migrated to Assam more than 100 years ago.
Most of them worked on tea plantations in the region.
Assam's Chief Minister said rebels belonging to a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland were behind the massacre.
Bodo rebels have been fighting for a separate homeland for their indigenous tribe, which makes up 10 percent of Assam's 33 million people.
They have staged attacks against both Adivasi and Muslim settlers in violence that has left at 10,000 people dead, most of them civilians, in the last three decades.
Following the attacks, angry Adivasis surrounded a police station in Sonitpur, where 26 of the victims died, and attempted to attack the officers inside, said a top police official.
Police opened fire, killing three Adivasis, he said.
He said there were incidents of Bodo homes being attacked, but troops controlled the situation.
India's Prime Minister condemned the latest attacks, and Home Ministry rushed several thousand federal paramilitary troops to the region, the junior Home Minister said.
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