NDFB (Songbijit) is a breakaway faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland and what goes often unnoticed is the fact that this particular terrorist organization -- irrespective of their claim of representing the greater Bodo population -- has little support of the Bodo people. The All Bodo Students’ Union, the Bodo People’s Front and the Bodo People’s Progressive Front strongly oppose it. On December 24, a day after the NDFB (Songbijit) massacre, a rally in Kokrajhar condemning the outfit’s actions was attended by 5,000 Bodos. Also, the very fact that NDFB(S) has only around 270 cadres out of which 150 are in Myanmar makes their claim of representing the greater Bodo population questionable.
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Friendly Bodoloand Pictures
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Tehelka
Friendly Bodoloand Pictures
It's headed by a non-Bodo who, from all accounts, is being propped up by the ULFA. Politics knows nothing but hunger for power, na? But you have to see the sort of retaliatory rhetoric this has generated with other militia groups across the NE states. They are taking the army offensive personally and swearing retribution. I read some stray comments on comment threads on FB; spine chilling stuff from self proclaimed leaders of all sorts of militant groups. This is the pity. It was an opportunistic attack by rank outsiders, an invasion of sorts, and the repercussions are going to engulf the entire region with locals (or whatever's left after the army is done with them) wiping each other out.
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