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In the News (Fri 10 Jul 09)

  
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Bodos attacked a relief camp at Balegaon in Gasaingaon subdivision and killed an Adivasi woman.
On July 25, Bodo militants hacked to death eight Santhals at the Saraitala relief camp in Kokrajhar district.
The Bodo accord had fixed the Sankosh river and the Majbat/Pasnoi river as the western and eastern boundaries of the BAC and excluded 10 km of the India-Bhutan border belt to the north from its jurisdiction.
www.frontlineonnet.com /fl1520/15201370.htm   (1200 words)

  
  Bodo people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The nerve center of the Bodos is the city of Kokrajhar.
The Bodos are thought to have introduced rice cultivation and silkworm rearing to the region.
The Bodos began their struggle for self-determination in earnest in 1989 under the leadership of Upendra Nath Brahma, who is now regarded as the father of the Bodos (Bodo-Fa).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bodo_people   (931 words)

  
 Bodo language Information
Bodo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Bodo people of north-eastern India and Nepal.
Bodo language, a branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of language is a rich language.
In the aftermath of socio-political awakening and movement launched by the Bodo organizations since 1913, the language was introduced as the medium of instruction (1963) in the primary schools in Bodo dominated areas.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Bodo_language   (327 words)

  
 Warning signals
Bodo militant groups respond to the delay in the formation of the Bodoland Territorial Council with the threat to revive their struggle for a separate state.
The BLT, which is supported by the All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU) and several other Bodo groups and has been negotiating directly with the Centre, wants the Assam government to expedite the process of creating the BTC by taking a "positive stand" on the issue of amending the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
The current mood of the Bodo people and organisations is reminiscent of the situation that prevailed before the signing of the Bodo Accord on February 20, 1993 between the Centre and the ABSU.
www.hindu.com /fline/fl1910/19100370.htm   (1281 words)

  
 Territories of fear
The Bodo people are one, if not the largest, of the eight plains tribal people of the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam (nine, if one includes the Barak Valley districts), let alone the rest of the plains tribal people who themselves are deeply divided on the issue.
The Bodo People's Action Committee (BPAC), a structure created by the ABSU itself in replication of the creation of the All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad by the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) during the anti-foreigner agitation, with a view to maintaining the fiction that the AASU was a `non-political' organisation, was the co-signatory.
The principal, indeed the sole, signatory representing Bodo nationalistic aspirations is the Chairman of the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), formerly Bodo Liberation Tiger Force or BLTF, a once clandestine structure banned by the Union government as a terrorist outfit, whose relationship with the ABSU remains tangential and obscure.
www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2024/stories/20031205003103900.htm   (1499 words)

  
 Debating India - Territories of fear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Bodo people are one, if not the largest, of the eight plains tribal people of the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam (nine, if one includes the Barak Valley districts), let alone the rest of the plains tribal people who themselves are deeply divided on the issue.
The Bodo People’s Action Committee (BPAC), a structure created by the ABSU itself in replication of the creation of the All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) during the anti-foreigner agitation, with a view to maintaining the fiction that the AASU was a `non-political’ organisation, was the co-signatory.
The principal, indeed the sole, signatory representing Bodo nationalistic aspirations is the Chairman of the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), formerly Bodo Liberation Tiger Force or BLTF, a once clandestine structure banned by the Union government as a terrorist outfit, whose relationship with the ABSU remains tangential and obscure.
india.eu.org /672.html   (1426 words)

  
 Bodo Tribe,Assam Bodo Tribe,Assam Ancient Boro Tribe,Assam Tourism,Northeast India Tours
people from Bhot - another name for Tibet) serves to describe several Trans-Himalayan tribes, including the Monpas, Daflas and Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh, group in the Cachar hills of Tripura and the Garos of Meghalaya.
The Bodo's are also known as Boro-Kachari's who ruled the northeastern region of India since the days of the Ramayana developed a distinct civilization, which thrived, till the later part of the 18th century.
The Boro-Kachari people are a section of the Indo Chinesetice of the Mongoloid stock whose original habitant had been somewhere between the upper waters of the Yangtse-Kiang and the Hoang-Ho.
www.indiantravelportal.com /assam/tribes/bodos.html   (496 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Chronology for Assamese in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
While Bodo leaders denied that they received any support from the central government they threatened that if the AGP government were to flush them out they would demand the dismissal of the state government and the imposition of direct rule over Assam.
Bodo rebels are suspected in the bombing of a courthouse in Kamrup district.
ULFA is blamed for an ambush of a paramilitary convoy in Goalpara district.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=75015   (6894 words)

  
 Promises and problems
Given the paternalistic and deeply contemptuous perceptions of the colonial rulers towards all the subject people of their empire, tribal and non-tribal, a humanitarian and romantic gloss, deeply influenced by the disdain and revulsion of the native faiths of the majority of the subjects, Hinduism and Islam, was put on to this perception.
Thus, the tribal people in the hills, by virtue of their isolation from their distant non-tribal neighbours, had somehow escaped from being tainted by the more vicious and repellent beliefs and practices of those in the plains, tribal and non-tribal.
This `innocence' and `purity' of the tribal people in the hills, ever under the danger of being swamped under by the `contaminated' beliefs, superstitions and practices of the people in the plains, both tribal and non-tribal, had to be protected.
www.hindu.com /fline/fl2005/stories/20030314001305000.htm   (2279 words)

  
 Untie the Bodo knot
The All Bodo Students' Union and the Bodo People's Action Committee, actively supported by the Bodo MLAs and the lone MP, successfully enforced a 24-hour road and rail blockade from 5 AM on Monday to press for their demand of a separate Bodoland state.
Even while the Bodo groups have intensified the homeland stir, the government, both at the centre or the state, does not seem to be in any kind of a hurry to address the matter.
Bodo groups have become further agitated with the centre's firm declaration that no new states, other than the three mentioned earlier, would be created.
www.assam.org /news/ah/untie_the_bodo_knot.htm   (578 words)

  
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That Bodo Accord has totally failed to fulfil the genuine hopes and aspirations of the Bodo people because of the negligence and apathetic attitude of the Government of India and the Government of Assam.
Bodos are always with the rest of the country Bodos are nationalists, they want to coexist in India as dignified Indian citizens with their district linguistic, ethnic and cultural self-identity.
People, being homeless, are in temporary shelters and their camps are being raided.
parliamentofindia.nic.in /lsdeb/ls12/ses2/1031079807.htm   (2450 words)

  
 Warning signals
Bodo militant groups respond to the delay in the formation of the Bodoland Territorial Council with the threat to revive their struggle for a separate state.
The BLT, which is supported by the All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU) and several other Bodo groups and has been negotiating directly with the Centre, wants the Assam government to expedite the process of creating the BTC by taking a "positive stand" on the issue of amending the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
The current mood of the Bodo people and organisations is reminiscent of the situation that prevailed before the signing of the Bodo Accord on February 20, 1993 between the Centre and the ABSU.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/fline/fl1910/19100370.htm   (1281 words)

  
 Fr. Murray Bodo
Bodo believes people can benefit from the teachings of St. Francis because they touch upon concerns in the modern world.
Bodo wanted to be a Navajo missionary but that was not to be.
Bodo has not been back to Assisi since an earthquake damaged the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in 1997.
www.franciscan-alumni.org /stories/bodo.html   (1591 words)

  
 Welcome to Bodoland - Culture - Dokhona
The Bodos are a race of the Mongolia people who are described as the inhabitants of a country north of the Himalayas and West of China.
The Bodo speaking areas of Assam at present are stretching from Dhubri in the West to Sadiya in the East.
Dimasa, the people of the great river, a separate language of the Bodo group, certainly differs from Bodo far than does Garo, which is universally admitted to the status of an independent language.
www.bodoland.org /culture5.htm   (3247 words)

  
 WBTC's Telugu Bible: the first of its kind
Because Jasmine is able to understand the Gospel in an easy-to-read form, it is easier for her to share her new faith with her people.
India’s Bodo people form one of the largest tribal communities (1.6 million) in Assam, a region in northeastern India.
For the last 15 years the Bodo people have been pushing to establish their own homeland.
www.wbtc.com /news/030606bodo.tribals.htm   (424 words)

  
 Bodoland at AllExperts
Bodoland is the name adopted by Bodo nationalists in Assam, India to denote their homeland, over which they want to exercise greater control.
The accord soon collapsed amidst a vertical split in ABSU and other Bodo political parties brought about mainly by the split between S K Bwiswmuthiary and Premsingh Brahma, and violence erupted in Bodo areas leading to a displacement of some 70,000 people.
Subsequent to that accord, a section of the Bodo Volunteer Force, the militant wing of the ABSU, came overground.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bo/bodoland.htm   (790 words)

  
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The Franciscan friars were known among the Navajo people of Arizona and New Mexico as 'Endishodi,' or 'those who drag their gowns,' he said.
Upon ordination to the priesthood in 1964, Rev. Bodo took a job as English teacher and spiritual director at the Mount Healthy minor seminary, where he stayed until 1977.
Rev. Bodo has not been back to Assisi since an earthquake damaged the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in 1997.
www.cincypost.com /living/1999/bodo041399.html   (1055 words)

  
 Times of Oman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Today, the 25-year-old Bodo tribal rebel from the revolt-torn state of Assam has picked up his gun again, but with a differnce: Basumatary has joined Indian federal police deployed to crush a decades-old rebellion in the oil and tea-rich region.
The Mongoloid-origin Bodos, who are the indigenous people of Assam, have long accused the federal authorities of neglecting them and flooding their areas with outsiders.
While most of the new Bodo recruits will be involved in anti-insurgency operations in the remote parts of Assam, some will be given responsibility to maintain law and order in the Bodo areas, another police officer said.
www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=11677   (354 words)

  
 Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
October 13 1992: 21 people were killed in a bomb explosion on a train in the district of Barpeta, allegedly planted by rebels of the outlawed BSF.
January 7, 1997: Bodo rebels are suspected in the bombing of a courthouse in Kamrup district.
January 4, 1998: The Bodos are blamed for the deaths of seven Hindu villagers in Assam.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/indbodochro.htm   (7666 words)

  
 World briefs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Seven people were killed in the riot Friday in Ibadan, which broke out during a demonstration against the military rule of Gen. Sani Abacha.
The Bodo people emerged from the dense Ribu forest in the mountainous region to surround the bus, forcing all 50 travelers of the Santhal tribe to get off.
Moscow city police on Sunday arrested one of the assailants, who by chance was interviewed by a Russian TV crew moments after the incident and bragged that he often beats fl people on the city's streets.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/05/04/world-briefs4.2-0.html   (607 words)

  
 Welcome to Bodoland - History
Bodos are the original and the real son of the soils of Assam with a distinct culture of their own.
The bodos are well versed in the use of bamboo and cane for handicrafts and the women of community weave dreams in their looms.
However, Bodo artisans have been able to retain their originality to some extent primarily because of their interior location and lesser intervention by outsiders.
www.bodoland.org /history.htm   (445 words)

  
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This was made known to representatives of Bodo tribals at a tripartite meeting in New Delhi on November 12, in which the Assam Government made it clear that it did not favour any further division of the State.
The Centre's standpoint was made clear to leaders of People's Democratic Front (PDF) who claimed that majority of legislators from Bodo areas of Assam belonged to their party.
Hearing their pleas, the local people of the neighbourhood came out with machetes, axes and sticks and pounced upon the jawans killing them on the spot.
www.cs.uccs.edu /~kalita/assam/news/1998/1998-11-13.html   (790 words)

  
 The Indian Express   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Council was formed after the government signed a peace accord with the Bodo Liberation Tigers in February 2003, followed by an interim executive council headed by former BLT chief Hagrama Mohilari installed last year.
‘‘The territorial council is the outcome of a long-drawn struggle and sacrifice of the Bodo people.
Narzary said while all Bodo groups have been invited to a convention at Kokrajhar on Tuesday, Bodo leaders of different parties too were extended the invitation to join the new party.
www.expressindia.com /pda/iestory.php?newsid=68210   (211 words)

  
 Bodos - The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Originally, the Bodos were a linguistic group and the word 'Bodo' is used The Bodos had no script of their own.
Bodos are perhaps most at risk for intercommunal conflict.
Bodos are pushing for an "ethnic cleansing" of recent intruders: they want to Many Bangladeshi settlers are macheted to pieces by territorial Bodos,
infoseeknow.com /ifsn/bodos.htm   (473 words)

  
 Bodos restive as Govt keeps mum : Special investigation, India's Hidden Wars, north-east, Bodo : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
After flushing the Bodos out of their jungle camps in Bhutan in 2002, the Government may now be waiting for the NDFB to weaken in military terms.
The only way to erase real and imagined perceptions of suppression of the indigenous people of India is to give them the right to govern their traditional homeland.
Boro Indigenous People's movement will soon be explossive with the international supports and therefore it is imperative that government of...
www.ibnlive.com /news/bodos-restive-as-govt-keeps-mum/23630-3.html   (555 words)

  
 Vanguard - Cover Stories : BODO, MOGHO BLOODBATH IN OGONI: It’s cruel to kill fellow beings ’cos of minor ...
The combatants from Bodo, apparently conveying the spirit of annexing the “fallen” Mogho, inscribed “new Bodo”, on the burnt walls of Mogho town.
It was learnt in Bodo that the razing of the apartment was traceable to a “bitter disagreement between Dey Gbam and Dey Well ” cult groups.
Although the war seemed to have favoured Bodo, comparatively speaking, in terms of human and material losses, some moderates in the town, cast aspersions on the “devilish deeds” of their leaders, apparently because of the patronage of the cult groups by the elites.
www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/cover/march07/03032007/f303032007.html   (2304 words)

  
 RAOnline Bhutan: Information on Bodo & Ulfa
His Majesty also informed the people that for the six districts of eastern Bhutan warehouses with capacities up to 1,500 metric tonnes would be built in Samdrup Jongkhar and Trashigang and a godown with a storage capacity of 800-metric tonne would be built in Mongar which would also supply Kurtoe with essential food supplies.
He reminded the people of Kurtoe that, if an armed conflict arose, the people in all the 20 dzongkhags would be seriously affected.
Chimi Pema Wangchuk of Gangzur geog said that the people were aware of the National Assembly decisions and deeply appreciated the efforts made by His Majesty and the government to solve the problem peacefully.
mypage.bluewindow.ch /raonline/pages/bt/btbodo4.html   (1337 words)

  
 The Assam Tribune online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He said that including the non-Bodo people in the talks is of utmost importance to ensure that their interests are not compromised with.
Taking a dig at the Government, Mahanta said that when the last Bodo Accord was signed, it was touted to be the final solution to the Bodo problem.
He said that further talks on the Bodo issue must be multilateral with proper representation of the non-Bodo people.
www.assamtribune.com /oct2104/at02.html   (511 words)

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