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| | The Bodo question |
 | | ON February 20, 1993, a memorandum of settlement was signed between the representatives of the All Bodo Students' Union and the Bodo People's Action Committee (ABSU-BPAC), which had led a sustained and often violent agitation for the creation of a separate state of 'Bodoland' comprising nearly one-third of Assam. |
 | | Such militant groups, whether they were inspired and created independently by the Bodo agitation leaders or with the encouragement of other agencies, have charted an independent path in a manner all too similar to the trajectory of other agitation groups and their armed wings in this region. |
 | | Again, in a manner all too familiar in the region, the splits and the atomisation of such structures, often manipulated by the agencies of the state by exploiting other sub-ethnic or religious divides with a view to encouraging mutual bloodletting, has resulted in their eventual consolidation, and not mutual destruction. |
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