Adivasis retaliate, kill 2 Bodos in restive Assam

Two Bodos have been killed by adivasis in retaliatory killings in Assam. The adivasis have also torched a Bodo village in Kokrajhar district yesterday.
The retaliatory killings come a day after Bodo militants killed 65 adivasis in twin attacks. Union home minister Rajnath Singh condemned the violence in Assam.
"Incident in Assam is condemnable, this was an act of terror and that is how we plan to look at it as," Rajnath said.
Earlier yesterday, three adivasis protesting against attack by Bodo militants were killed in police firing. An earlier version of this story said that five protesting adivasis were killed in police firing.
However, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi talking to reporters said that only three people were killed in clashes with police.
Adivasis also set ablaze houses allegedly belonging to the people of the Bodo community in Phuloguri area under Bishwanath Chariali police station in Sonitpur district.
Curfew has been clamped since Tuesday night in areas under four police stations in Sonitpur district. Late at Tuesday night, the Army was called in to maintain law and order in the troubled areas.
Protest rallies were also taken out yesterday by thousands of tea garden workers, armed with bow and arrows, and a seven-km stretch of National Highway 15 was blocked by the protestors near Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur.
Gogoi has directed state ministers Neelamani Sen Deka and Basanta Das to visit Kokrajhar and ministers Rockybul Hussain, Tanka Bahadur Rai and Prithbi Majhi to Sonitpur district.
He said the militants will no longer be allowed to "hit and run" and the prime minister and the home minister have assured him all help.
Police said the killings started around 5:00pm on Tuesday at Maitalubasti in Sonitpur district in northern Assam, bordering Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh, along with MoS Kiren Rijiju, visited Assam yesterday afternoon to take stock of the situation.