Assam: Security forces launch all-out operation against Bodo militants
Guwahati, Dec 26 (IBNS): Security forces on Friday launched an all out offensive against the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit) responsible for the massacre in Assam's Kokrajhar and Sonitpur district leaving more than 80 dead.
A top army official said that the operation has already been launched in Sonitpur district along Arunachal Pradesh border and Kokrajhar district along with Bhutan border.
Indian army,central paramilitary forces and Assam police had launched the offensive against the Bodo militants.
"This is a time bound operation against the NFFB(S) militants. In first phase 66 units of army, 20 companies of Central paramilitary forces and Assam police personnel have jointly launched the operation," an army official said.
On Thursday, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh ruled out talks with any organization like NFFB(S) who brutally killed children, women and innocent people.
The Bodo militant group killed at least 80 adivasi people in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts.
On other hand several vehicles were damaged by protesters during the 12-hour-long Assam bandh on Friday called by various organisations including ATTSA, Asom Yuba Parishad to protest the killings.
The protesters blocked rail at Kaliabor, Amoni, Nagaon, Bongaigaon, Sivsagar and blocked national highways in several places in the state.
Police arrested more than 300 protesters across the state.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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