Assam: Bodo attack could not be prevented in spite of prior information

The Assam government on Monday said that even though they had prior information about an attack on adivasi villagers in Assam by the militant group NDFB (S), the remoteness of location prevented security forces from reaching there in time.

The state assembly was informed that the attack in 4 districts of the state on December 23 last year, which claimed 78 lives, could not be stopped because the vulnerable areas could not be reached on time and there was no specific information on the locations of attack.

The superintendents of police of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Sonitpur districts, where the attacks were carried out by the Bodo tribe militant group, were alerted of the possible attacks on December 23 between 11.20 hours to 11.35 hours.

Altogether 78 people, including 63 of Adivasi villagers were killed by the NDFB-S militants while 13 persons from Bodo community were killed in retaliatory attacks by Adivasis between December 23-25, 2014.