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2 Gurhka Separatist Protesters Killed in Northeast India
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Violence in Darjeeling; death toll to three
Darjeeling: The death toll in the clash between the women's wing of Gorkha Janmuktu Morcha and police in the Dooars on Tuesday morning increased to three with the death of another person on Wednesday.
The situation in Dooars area of Jalpaiguri, on Wednesday remained tense even as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-sponsored indefinite bandh evoked a partial response in the district.
According to the sources, police had opened fire on GJM workers after they refused to adhere to prohibitory orders and attacked men and women in uniform. A female constable was attacked by a khukri, a traditional gorkha knife, sparking the retaliatory firing by police.
The District Magistrate of Jalpaiguri would hold a meeting with GJM leaders at Malbazar in the afternoon to defuse the situation, the sources said.
Adequate police personnel were deployed to prevent any further outbreak of violence in the area, the sources said.
The bandh evoked partial response in Jalpaiguri even as GJM supporters were trying to enforce the shut down at Jaldhaka, Sukna, Bangrakote, Dhupguri and Kalchini area.
Reports from Darjeeling said that bandh has hit normal life with shops, markets and other establishments remaining closed.
Official sources said a fire station and a telephone exchange office were set ablaze at Bijonbari on Tuesday.
Two persons were killed on Tuesday at Sipchu when the police opened fire to stop GJM supporters from taking out a march in adjacent Jalpaiguri district defying prohibitory orders, sparking widespread arson and damage to forest bungalows and properties.
http://www.sahilonline.org/english/news.php?cid=3&nid=10158
Darjeeling: The death toll in the clash between the women's wing of Gorkha Janmuktu Morcha and police in the Dooars on Tuesday morning increased to three with the death of another person on Wednesday.
The situation in Dooars area of Jalpaiguri, on Wednesday remained tense even as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-sponsored indefinite bandh evoked a partial response in the district.
According to the sources, police had opened fire on GJM workers after they refused to adhere to prohibitory orders and attacked men and women in uniform. A female constable was attacked by a khukri, a traditional gorkha knife, sparking the retaliatory firing by police.
The District Magistrate of Jalpaiguri would hold a meeting with GJM leaders at Malbazar in the afternoon to defuse the situation, the sources said.
Adequate police personnel were deployed to prevent any further outbreak of violence in the area, the sources said.
The bandh evoked partial response in Jalpaiguri even as GJM supporters were trying to enforce the shut down at Jaldhaka, Sukna, Bangrakote, Dhupguri and Kalchini area.
Reports from Darjeeling said that bandh has hit normal life with shops, markets and other establishments remaining closed.
Official sources said a fire station and a telephone exchange office were set ablaze at Bijonbari on Tuesday.
Two persons were killed on Tuesday at Sipchu when the police opened fire to stop GJM supporters from taking out a march in adjacent Jalpaiguri district defying prohibitory orders, sparking widespread arson and damage to forest bungalows and properties.
http://www.sahilonline.org/english/news.php?cid=3&nid=10158
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Why is Congress so uptight when it comes to formation of new states?
I support formation of Gorkhaland as much as the formation of Telengana.
I support formation of Gorkhaland as much as the formation of Telengana.
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They are not separatist, they want their own state, and they have been asking for it since independent.
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They are not separatists, they want to make a separate state "Gorkhaland" in West Bengal..within in the Indian union.
Gorkhaland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorkhaland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I saw this on BBC worldnews while eating lunch. Apparently the police panicked when the protest got out of hand.
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They want Dooars and Siliguri to be included in Gorkhaland, which is akin of asking Hyd to be included in Telengana, hence not feasible.
Also hills are not underdeveloped like Telengana, they already enjoy administrative power their anyway.
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Also I heard some other states in NE India do not what this Gorkhaland to exist.
I heard BJP supports this.
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Here is the Telegraph report.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Frontpage |<I>Khukuri</I> slash reopens gash Cop shots kill 2, hills on fire
Sibchu, Feb. 8: A khukuri attack on a policewoman re-lit the powder keg in Darjeeling, triggering police firing in Jalpaiguri in which a teenager and a young woman supporter of Gorkhaland died and igniting a wave of arson in the hills.
The bloodletting and firebombing have not only put the hills back on the boil and muddled the tripartite talks but also reopened questions on the mob control skills of Bengal police.
The way events spun out of control today initial accounts indicated panic-fuelled firing by a police force fleeing a violent mob suggests that the law enforcement agencies had learnt few lessons from Nandigram where a flare-up in 2007 had created an unparalleled crisis for the state government.
The stand-off in Sibchu, a forest 110km from Siliguri and close to the Bhutan border, blew up this morning when over 3,000 Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters assembled in defiance of prohibitory orders and attacked security forces.
A confrontation has been brewing since January 19 when the Morcha had launched a long march for Gorkhaland, charting a course that would have taken supporters of a new state through the Dooars that houses groups opposed to the proposal.
Since Adivasis in the Dooars are not known to back Gorkhaland, the administration had prevented the Morcha from marching past Sibchu. Yesterday, security forces had removed a tent camp there.
However, this morning, Morcha supporters returned to Sibchu, cut trees and laid them across the road a tactic put to effective use in Nandigram by land acquisition protesters to block the security forces.
Reinforcements 300 police and CRPF personnel reached the spot around 10.30am. Officials asked the crowd to disperse since Section 144, which prevents assembly, was in force. After a last warning went unheeded at 11.35am, the police burst tear gas shells and baton-charged the crowd that split into three groups and scattered. The police then chased out from the community hall a group on hunger strike.
The security forces seemed to have made an error of judgement after this and underestimated the resolve of the crowd. A little over half an hour later, the protesters re-converged from three sides and attacked the police.
One person slashed at constable Kalyani Tiggas head with a khukuri. As blood streamed down Kalyanis head, a policeman standing near her opened fire. The shot hit a teenager, not the attacker, standing nearby.
The battle intensified then and the police started fleeing, according to witnesses. However, seeing some of their colleagues being hit by stones and bleeding, a few policemen turned around and fired six more rounds. The 24-year-old woman was killed in this fresh round of firing.
The Morcha identified the dead as Bimala Rai from Kalimpong and 16-year-old Vicky Lama from Rangamati in Malbazar. The police, however, said those killed were yet to be identified.
Inspector-general of police, north Bengal, Ranveer Kumar said: They hacked our lady constable, Kalyani Tigga, with a khukuri on her head and the police had to fire in self-defence. The police were also fired upon from an improvised firearm which was seized from the spot.
He said the subdivisional police officer of Malbazar, Arindam Sarkar, and the officer in charge of the Malbazar police station, B.D. Sarker, were among those seriously injured by stones thrown by the protesters.
Kumar said Wilson Champromari, the Morcha-backed Independent MLA of Kalchini, was arrested from the spot. Two mobile phones and Rs 22,000 were seized from him.
He was among those who incited the violence against the police, the inspector-general said.
While being led to a police van, Wilson claimed he had been leading a peaceful agitation. We want to take Bimal Gurung to the Dooars and we were on a peaceful movement. We were attacked brutally by the police and the hunger-strikers were chased and beaten out of the community hall. I was also badly beaten up.
Soon after, Morcha supporters struck at several places in their strongholds in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong, targeting government establishments and burning down some buildings, including at least one in the Mall. A judges parked car was also set on fire.
The Morcha has called an indefinite strike from 6am tomorrow to protest the firing. At 4pm, shopkeepers who had downed shutters on their own were asked to reopen so that people could stock up on essentials. Tourists not too many are around in the lean season used the window to leave Darjeeling.
Late tonight, Morcha president Bimal Gurung asked people to stop destroying property, remain calm and maintain peace.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Frontpage |<I>Khukuri</I> slash reopens gash Cop shots kill 2, hills on fire
Sibchu, Feb. 8: A khukuri attack on a policewoman re-lit the powder keg in Darjeeling, triggering police firing in Jalpaiguri in which a teenager and a young woman supporter of Gorkhaland died and igniting a wave of arson in the hills.
The bloodletting and firebombing have not only put the hills back on the boil and muddled the tripartite talks but also reopened questions on the mob control skills of Bengal police.
The way events spun out of control today initial accounts indicated panic-fuelled firing by a police force fleeing a violent mob suggests that the law enforcement agencies had learnt few lessons from Nandigram where a flare-up in 2007 had created an unparalleled crisis for the state government.
The stand-off in Sibchu, a forest 110km from Siliguri and close to the Bhutan border, blew up this morning when over 3,000 Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters assembled in defiance of prohibitory orders and attacked security forces.
A confrontation has been brewing since January 19 when the Morcha had launched a long march for Gorkhaland, charting a course that would have taken supporters of a new state through the Dooars that houses groups opposed to the proposal.
Since Adivasis in the Dooars are not known to back Gorkhaland, the administration had prevented the Morcha from marching past Sibchu. Yesterday, security forces had removed a tent camp there.
However, this morning, Morcha supporters returned to Sibchu, cut trees and laid them across the road a tactic put to effective use in Nandigram by land acquisition protesters to block the security forces.
Reinforcements 300 police and CRPF personnel reached the spot around 10.30am. Officials asked the crowd to disperse since Section 144, which prevents assembly, was in force. After a last warning went unheeded at 11.35am, the police burst tear gas shells and baton-charged the crowd that split into three groups and scattered. The police then chased out from the community hall a group on hunger strike.
The security forces seemed to have made an error of judgement after this and underestimated the resolve of the crowd. A little over half an hour later, the protesters re-converged from three sides and attacked the police.
One person slashed at constable Kalyani Tiggas head with a khukuri. As blood streamed down Kalyanis head, a policeman standing near her opened fire. The shot hit a teenager, not the attacker, standing nearby.
The battle intensified then and the police started fleeing, according to witnesses. However, seeing some of their colleagues being hit by stones and bleeding, a few policemen turned around and fired six more rounds. The 24-year-old woman was killed in this fresh round of firing.
The Morcha identified the dead as Bimala Rai from Kalimpong and 16-year-old Vicky Lama from Rangamati in Malbazar. The police, however, said those killed were yet to be identified.
Inspector-general of police, north Bengal, Ranveer Kumar said: They hacked our lady constable, Kalyani Tigga, with a khukuri on her head and the police had to fire in self-defence. The police were also fired upon from an improvised firearm which was seized from the spot.
He said the subdivisional police officer of Malbazar, Arindam Sarkar, and the officer in charge of the Malbazar police station, B.D. Sarker, were among those seriously injured by stones thrown by the protesters.
Kumar said Wilson Champromari, the Morcha-backed Independent MLA of Kalchini, was arrested from the spot. Two mobile phones and Rs 22,000 were seized from him.
He was among those who incited the violence against the police, the inspector-general said.
While being led to a police van, Wilson claimed he had been leading a peaceful agitation. We want to take Bimal Gurung to the Dooars and we were on a peaceful movement. We were attacked brutally by the police and the hunger-strikers were chased and beaten out of the community hall. I was also badly beaten up.
Soon after, Morcha supporters struck at several places in their strongholds in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong, targeting government establishments and burning down some buildings, including at least one in the Mall. A judges parked car was also set on fire.
The Morcha has called an indefinite strike from 6am tomorrow to protest the firing. At 4pm, shopkeepers who had downed shutters on their own were asked to reopen so that people could stock up on essentials. Tourists not too many are around in the lean season used the window to leave Darjeeling.
Late tonight, Morcha president Bimal Gurung asked people to stop destroying property, remain calm and maintain peace.
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These dingbats want a seperate state for Nepali speaking population in Bengal ,
I mean Nepali is not even recognised as a national language , and what , these dunghead nepali want us to create a seperate state for them , if they are so serious then they should ask Nepal for that or go back to Nepal
One of the stupidest decision made by Nehru was to allow Equal rights for Nepali people in India
This lead to a fluxz of legal nepali migration to neighbouring states of Nepal and now some assheads have decided that there population is large enough to demand statehood
We should begin employing Shoot at Site policy on Nepal border like we do on Bangladeshi and Pakistan border
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wats the problem in making a new state...
after all it will be another Indian state
and they are not separatists
after all it will be another Indian state
and they are not separatists
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Thanks for showing your true colours. Sometimes I really wonder if the accusations our neighbours level on us are really true. If all Indians become like you there won't be a country called India. When a Gorkha soldier does something brave then everyone jumps to say that he is as much Indian as us. Yet when the Gorkhas protest for a new state then they are Nepalese. Listen mister India belongs as much to me and my Gorkha brethren as to you!!!
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Dont listen to that dumb@ss.
