Pakistan flags waved in five Indian districts , Depressed from government actions people in Assam waved Pakistan’s flags in five districts. Thirty people have so far been killed in various clashes

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GUWAHATI, India - India's Assam state deployed thousands of paramilitary
troops Monday to quell clashes between Muslim migrants and tribal groups
that have left more than 30 people dead.
*Pakistan flags waved in five Indian districts , Depressed from government
actions people in Assam waved Pakistan's flags in five districts. Thirty
people have so far been killed in various clashes*

More than 60,000 people have been forced to flee their homes as a result of
the violence that broke out Friday and swiftly spread through three
districts of the northeastern state.

A senior Assam police official said an additional 2,100 paramilitary
personnel were being sent to the affected areas, where curfews with
shoot-on-sight orders have already been imposed.

The clashes, between members of the Bodo tribal group and Muslim settlers
originally from Bangladesh, have witnessed raids on numerous villages by
groups armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, spears and machetes.

*"They set fire to a large a number of homes in my village," said Dipali
Basumatary, who had taken shelter with her two children in a government-run
relief camp.*

At least half the fatalities so far have been people killed in police
firing.

Although there have been tensions between indigenous and immigrant
communities in Assam, violence on such a scale is extremely rare, and some
state officials accused local separatist groups of fuelling the unrest.

Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the root cause was a
programme of "ethnic cleansing" implemented by the National Democratic Front
of Bodoland (NDFB), a rebel group fighting for an independent tribal
homeland.

"They want to drive out all non-Bodos from the area ... it's a systematic
pogrom," Sarma told AFP

The NDFB, which is a largely Christian outfit, entered into a ceasefire with
the Indian government in 2005, but has never renounced its independence
struggle.

"We are investigating reports of the involvement of the NDFB in the clashes
and, if proved, we shall be forced to call off the ceasefire," said Assam
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

*More than 10,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Assam during
the past two decades. *