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July 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Saturday, Singh visited a crowded relief camp in Kokrajhar, which was the worst-hit district, where he told Muslim victims of ethnic riots that it was “a time for healing,” AFP reported.
The police found five more dead bodies following clashes in Assam between Bodo tribes and Muslims in a region near Bangladesh on Saturday.
“I have come here to share your sorrow and pain,” Singh told the internally displaced people, who had fled their homes to escape the fighting.
“This is a time for healing,” the Indian prime minister stated.
Singh, who represents Assam in the upper house of the Indian parliament, announced a three billion rupee ($54 million) relief package for the strife-torn region.
The Assam state government said more than 400,000 people have left their homes and taken shelter in relief camps, fleeing from ethnic clashes that broke out eight days ago.
“The ethnic conflict which has occurred is unacceptable and must come to a stop,” Singh said.
“We must address the causes of the conflict. If the conflict was instigated, the guilty must be punished,” Singh added and promised that “a proper inquiry into the tragic incidents” would be launched.
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 August 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 Muslims 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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