India - The Bodos/ National Democratic Front of Bodoland and the Bodoland Liberation Tiger Force

The Bodos comprise some 800,000 people out of Assam's 25 million inhabitants. Bodo tribals living in northwest Assam between the north bank of the Brahmaputra River and the foothills of the Himalayas for 30 years have been duking it out with the Bengali Hindus and the Indian government for a homeland that would split the state in two. The Bodos are pissed at the swarms of Bengali immigrants that have settled on their traditional tribal lands over the past 20 years, as well as the wholesale raping of the environment by illegal loggers. They like to chop up Bengali villagers and blow things up (trains, bridges, etc.). The struggle became truly violent, however, only after 1985. The Bodos claim some 1,200 of their people were slaughtered by Indian security forces before the 1993 autonomy agreement. The pact was never carried out by the government and the Bodos renounced it in 1996. However, the Bodos are divided by factionalism. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the Bodoland Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF) have been hacking up each other with as much fervor as they do immigrants and government security forces. Some 5,500 people have been killed in the insurgency since 1987. Their bases are in Bhutan.

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