This Was No ‘Riot’

A week of madness in Assam

A week of madness in Assam

1 – Body of a 50 years old Jamila lies in a police truck in Kokrajhar. Her body was found floating in a river five days after she went missing from her village on the day it was attacked by Bodo militia.

2 – The children waiting for their afternoon meal in one of the Muslim relief camp.

3 – A boy from one of violence hit villages sits on a desk in a school classroom, which has now turned into a relief camp.

4 – A girl with her mother at the relief camp.

5 – Baby Noorja, who was born in a Muslim relief camp to Sahija Khatoon.

6 – Army soldiers rushing into the worst-affected Dhuramari village, in Kokrajhar district.

7 – An army soldier patrolling into the worst-affected Dhuramari village in Kokrajhar.

8 – Brigadier Bhasker Kalita tries to convince a Bodo family in a Simbulgaon village, Kokrajhar, to hand over the two kids, who lost during the riots.

9 – Three-year-old Myna with her mother at the Muslim relief camp.

10  – Myna

11 – People trying to get some rest in a Muslim relief camp in Dhubri.

12 – A child, with his mother, trying to get some rest in a Muslim relief camp in Dhubri.

13 – A burnt car outside a destroyed Bodo house in Dhubri.

14 – 80-year-old Narayan Basumtari in a Bodo relief camp in Kokrajhar.

15 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talking to the victims Muslim relief camp, Kokrajhar.

16 – An army soldier patrolling into the worst affected Dhuramari village in Kokrajhar.

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