Bodoland has a long history of often violent land disputes between the indigenous Bodo tribes, Muslim settlers and the Adivasi community.
NDFB is an armed separatist outfit which seeks to obtain a sovereign Bodoland for which they first evacuated Nepalis and Rajvanshis and then slayed Adivasi Hindus and Bengali Muslims.
The attack by the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) with heavily armed militants on former teagarden workers from the advasi community on Tuesday evening is an ethnic dominance by Bodo groups.
Over the years, Bodo groups have systematically ambushed non-Bodos. Muslims and Adivasi teagarden workers have been their main targets.
However, this is not the first time that Bodo militant groups have targeted Adivasis. Since 1994 over 500 people have lost lives in bloody clashes.
The attack is on innocent people sent a message of violence.
Security forces and Police had strengthen security measures in Muslim dominated areas as the militants have often targeted alleged immigrant settlers from Bangladesh in last couple of years.
The adivasis and Bengali Muslims were made to settle on tribal blocks and belts as part of a ‘conspiracy to wipe locals out’.
Adivasis, who along with Bengali-speaking Muslims have been targets of ethnic cleansing in Bodo-inhabited areas along with–live in or near tea estates along the border.
Nepali, Rajvanshi, Adivasi Hindus and Bengali Muslims need to amalgamate to come to terms with Bodos which were supported by the BJP and RSS.
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