Protesters close India's Assam after deadly blasts

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

GUWAHATI, India, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A strike to protest against bombings that killed 84 people in India's troubled Assam state last week shut down the region on Monday, police said, with angry Indians blaming illegal Bangladeshi migrants.

Protesters marched through the otherwise deserted streets of Guwahati, the state's main city, where 44 people died on Thursday when three bombs exploded within minutes.

A little-known Islamist group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's blasts in the tea- and oil-producing state, the worst strike in the troubled region, which also wounded 300 people.

Police suspect that Islamist militants working with separatists in Assam were behind the bombings.



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[Alamuti Lotus]

1. the world is just getting dumber and dumber.....

argh; let me get this straight.
State whips up racist hysteria against "outsiders" to distract from Assam nationalist & maoist rebels;
As expected locals go nuts and murder a few dozen of them in some carefully organized pogroms (see Gujarat for the trial run);
Said "outsiders" go nuts in revenge of earlier attacks;
Situation suddenly much, much worse than when it started ("started" being a difficult concept to define, to be sure).

Does anybody in government anywhere read their own fucking history or is brainless amnesia the first qualities sought in leaders?

[Bhaisahab]

2. It's got nothing to do with reading history

or amnesia for that matter. See, polishitians exist only to make money. Just like any of us. The only difference being that while those of us who do the 9-to-5 grind retain a bit of control over our conscience, the polishitians - the first thing they do in the morning is put their conscience to sleep. At least, that's the way it has been in Assam, and India, and the whole of the freakin' sub-continent.

Edit: Welcome to DU, by the way :)