Y bodo grls r nt intrstd in bodoland movement? Read dis,Bodo gals dnt want rights, justice n devlopmnt? how our women suffered in movement, We want justice to this WOMEN/GIRLS? During Bodoland Movement: Social movements are launched basically to promote and protect basic human rights of the people. But history has witnessed that it also brings several numbers of violation of rights of the people. Bodoland movement was launched to protect the land, culture, customs and traditions and ethnic identity of the Bodo people. With reference to the right to self determination of the UniversalDeclar ation of Human rights (UDHR) they started movementfor the internal self determination of the Bodos. But unfortunately, movement has brought untold sufferings to the people. Excessive police atrocities, mass raid, mass arrest and inhuman tortures were being triggered by the state government uponthe ABSU activist and the supporters of the separate Bodoland movement belonging to both Bodo and non-Bodo community. Large number of Bodo women (ranging from minor girl to old women) became the victims of gangrape and molestation. Initially, the movement forseparate Bodoland was a peaceful movement. But it became of violent nature because of the cruel treatmentof the state government. In this regard, a quotation from the statement of the Pramila Rani Brahma, the then President of the All Tribal Women Welfare Federation is worth mentioning. She said, ‘Our movement is absolutely peaceful. Most of the violence is being perpetrated by the Assam police and by agents ofAssam government. We are peace loving people and havestuck to non- violence despite grave provocations. How can you expect people to stay non-violent when their daughters are being raped and their near and dear ones are being tortured and shot death? I think you should comment the leadership of movement for continuing the agitation peacefully. A Bodo student named Sujit Narzary was killed when some Assamese miscreants threw a stone on him at Tihu Chock onthe 12th June, 1987 while they were coming from a massrally in Gauhaty. Another ABSU volunteer shri Subhas Basumatary had to lose one ofhis eyes due to that attack. Police forces shot death two ABSU volunteers viz. Kabiram Basumatary and Alendra Basumatary at Lailanpara in Darang district on the 9th September, 1987. Again, Police shot death one ABSU volunteer Obiram Mushahary and seriously injured Shadev Brahma near Serfanguri in Kokrajhar district on the 25th September, 1987. Such attacked on the innocent Bodo people became very common during the Bodoland movement. One of the darkest pages in the history of Bodoland movement is the incident at No. 12 Bhumka in Kokrajhar district of Assam. In their report to Amnesty International, Presidents of All Bodo Students Union and All Cachar-Karimgan j Students Association stated that 9 (nine) Bodo Girls and one old woman at No. 12 Bhumka village in Kokrajhar district of Assam were gang raped by theAssam Police (AP) and Assam Police Task Force (APTF) on the nights of 25thand 27thJanuary of 1988. In fact, rape by the police forces had become so much common during the Bodoland movementthat Pramila Rani Brahma, the then President of ATWWF doubt if any Bodo dominated village has escaped the ravages. Another bloody incident occurred in the late 1989. At the patronage of the Assam government, some Assamese miscreants in connivance with the Assam police forces committed massacres at Gohpur in August and at Rangapara in May, 1989 under Sonitpur district, Simlaguri under Lakhimpur district in August, 1989, Kairabari, Bhakhatpara and Phaorupeta under Dorong district in August, 1989. In those incidents more than 300 innocent Bodo women and children were butchered and over 10,000 Bodo houses were burn down to ashes. More than 15, 0000 Bodo people were settled in relief camps without government relief, rehabilitation and medical care. According to the report of ABSU to the then Prime Minister of India (V.P. Singh), over 200 Bodo inmates died out of starvation and another 93 Bodo inmates died due to lack of medical care in Gohpur itself. However,there are differences of opinion regarding the number of victims in every incident. But there is no doubt that a huge number of people lost their life during the Bodoland movement. According to the record of All Bodo Students Union, at least 1135 Bodo people had lost their life during the Bodoland movementfrom 1987-93. Controversial Acts like Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987, Assam Disturbed Areas Act, 1955 and Armed Forces Act, 1958 were imposed in the Kokrajhar district of Assam where Bodoland movement was gaining its momentum. Large number of the innocent people became the victim of fake encounter while many other were beaten brutally leading to the lost of their eyes,legs,hands and so on. Thousands of the innocent Bodo people were sent in jail and tortured there. But no compensation was made to the victims and their families
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