PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2008 ID-4445

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w. Shame on Guwahati streets .

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7TTJ ~· Il Guwanat\. Nov. 26: A young .

Adivasi woman ran down a.

\ Guwahati street naked..

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stripped by ethnic rioters. .

while leeru1g citY youths \.

clicked away with their cell· .

phonecameras. \.

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As television tod3Y .

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more scene of &lturday's.

*~ 1 street horror -when hun· .

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dreds of tribals were attacked.

3ffi overa 3.Skm stretch of the citY .

-police arrestedthe woman·s.

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three tormentors...

'"l'hC three had pounced on.

' I her like a pack of dogs and.

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('1 IJI ~ -$1 s ed strippmg her. All her .

on deaf ears till they.

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pleas.

ct ~~ q hadstri d.her naked. OnlY .

thendidthey lethergo," said a.

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3ftx ~· police omcer quoting eyewit·.

~vir nesses to the mob retal\ation Sandlp cnakdar \ to a violent Adivast students'.

~'11(!1~ ~ {Lelt) Tbe Adlvasl woman .

march. runs nailed and (top) the.

~~~ The woman sprintPd away three men arrested on tile \ from a large group of jeering . charge ot stJipplng her 29 ~. men and ran on in panic ttll during Saturday's .

\ somebodY threW her a piece of mayhem In Guwahilli.iffi Q-m 3 1 Telegraph picture.

clothing..

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1'he sight left homemaker-em 'l~Pf.1P- Ananya Baruah dumbfound· Fast Food restaurant in the ed on hersecond·fioor balconY samelocality. Sandi?. 20. owns200?_ at neltola. the epicentrefrom begin, and hacked to death. a paan shop near the hotel&,~~ where the rioting spilled over As the police llegan d1s· (See Page 6) Tarun whereRatul works..

,.I Chief minister The charges against them.

several localities. persingthe tribals, angry loC'al .

Gogoi announced the arrests a.

~!.TIT![ ..She was running like mobschaseddown the slraggl· of the trio who had stripped range from o\ltraging mad. Some people were click·.

I I ~1:1\'~ ers among them. Adivasi men. the woman andoffered the vic· woman's modesty to attempt ing pictures with their cell· women and children were dr· timRs 1\akh incompensation. to murder.Gogoi announced a judi·~.\'11 phones.ltwas oneof the worst agged across streets and mer· PrnSenjit Chakfavarty, Sa.ndip.

crimes anY civilised society cial probe into the violence byfcJ ~QFa ?Ji""' could have committed. I felt so cilessly beaten up wllh the po-Chakdar and Ratul Barman the All Adlvasi Students' As·.

lice refusing to intervene. The .

were nabbed on the basis of.

helpless just watching. The sociation of AsSatn as well as.

1ftre· ~r it l1l violence left some 300 injured video footage and eyewitness the mob backlash. The state.

girl disappeared into one of and a 12-year-oldbOY dead.t fc); ~.'([ The victim was probablY a The ethnic conflict claim· accounts. government has announced a.

theby-lanes." Ratul. a waiterat Mahala:<·.

fc);~~ ed a second life this morning. m\ Hotel in Beltola, is barely compensation of Rs 3 lakh for participant mthe armed Adi· SantoshKumar, 17, was drag· 18. The main accused is the families or the dead. vas\ procession.il1 demand of ged out of avehicle on a high·~~vn Scheduled Tribe status that Prasenjil, 28, owner of Damty .

~~ct· had turned violent and dam· way for ''defying" an Adivasi· -·------enforcedbandh that was yet to.

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