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'Report on Assam riots has inflammatory comments'
Wednesday August 22, 2012 09:21:55 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Asian
Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) Tuesday slammed a report of the
National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Assam violence, saying
it contains "biased and inflammatory" comments with potential to
"radicalise Muslims".
In a post on its website, the New Delhi-based human rights
organisation with special consultative status with the United
Nations Economic and Social Council (Unesco), said that the NCM
had effectively reduced the riots in Assam to "Bodos vs Muslims"
wherein Muslims had been defined as "minorities".
NCM member K.N. Daruwalla along with Planning Commission member
Syeda Hameed visited violence affected Bodoland Territorial
Autonomous Districts (BTAD) and Dhubri district in Assam earlier
this month and gave their report.
The ACHR said 15 percent of Bodos were Christians while about 50
percent follow their animist religion and the rest are Hindus.
"The Bodos, who are followers of Christianity and animist 'Bathou'
religion have been effectively defined as a majority in clear
violation of the NCM Act," the ACHR said.
The ACHR said the delegation of the NCM visited only one Bodo camp
where situation was better than other relief camps simply because
it was in the heart of the town.
"The NCM has failed to expose the deplorable conditions of the
Bodo relief camps outside the main towns. Therefore, the
inferences drawn by the NCM are inaccurate," the ACHR said.
It said in case of Muslims abandoning their villages, the NCM had
opined that there was a "design to see that they do not return to
their own villages" but had not talked of any such design in case
of the Bodos.
"The NCM failed to ensure impartiality at a time when it is clear
that both the Bodos and the Muslims are scared to return to their
respective villages surrounded by other communities," the ACHR
said.
Over 400,000 people were uprooted and over 75 killed in the
violence between tribal Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims which
broke out in Kokrajhar in July and spread to other areas.
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