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Minorities need protection from aggression,
President on Assam violence
Tuesday August 14, 2012 11:22:32 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherkee Tuesday said he was "pained" after witnessing the
violence in Assam and added that minorities needed solace,
understanding and protection from aggression.
"It is particularly painful for me to witness the violence in
Assam. Our minorities need solace, understanding and protection
from aggression," he said in his Independence Day-eve speech.
"Violence is not an option; violence is an invitation to greater
violence. Concrete attempts have been made to heal the wounds of
Assam, including the Assam accord conceived by our young and
beloved prime minister Rajiv Gandhi," he said.
"We should revisit them, and adapt them to present conditions in
the spirit of justice and national interest," he added.
"We need peace for a new economic surge that eliminates the
competitive causes of violence," he added.
Last month's outbreak of violence between indigenous Bodos and
Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam led to the death of 73 people in
the northeastern state.
The ethnic violence rendered hundreds of thousands of people
homeless.
According to officials, 400,000 people have been displaced from
almost 400 villages, who are now taking shelter in relief camps
set-up by the state government.
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