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July 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Tuesday, Indian security forces opened fire on rioters burning property in the Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar district, killing four of them, Reuters quoted Police Inspector General S.N. Singh as saying.
Earlier, 28 people were killed in days of clashes between Bodo tribes and Muslim settlers in a region near Bangladesh.
An unnamed district civil servant said more villages were burnt by attackers on Tuesday evening.
Assam’s chief minister, Tarun Gogoi, said about 30,000 villagers have fled their homes and taken shelter in relief camps.
Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Manomhan Singh called the chief minister and told him to do everything possible to halt the violence.
India’s Northeast, which is ringed by China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, is connected to the rest of the country by a narrow land strip called the chicken’s neck.
The Northeast, which is home to more than 200 ethnic and tribal groups, has been racked by separatist revolts since India’s independence from Britain in 1947.
In recent years, Hindu and Christian tribes have expressed strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment toward Bangladeshi settlers. The Bodo tribes have clashed with Bengalis in deadly riots several times since the 1950s.
Thirty years ago, about 2,000 people, mainly Muslims, died in riots in Assam.
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