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GAUHATI, India - Separatist rebels fatally shot six migrant workers in northeastern India's restive Assam state, police officials said Wednesday.
The rebels armed with automatic weapons descended on Belbari village and killed five people, said V.K. Ramisetti, the Dibrugarh district police chief. Another migrant worker was gunned down in the nearby district of Sivasagar, Ramisetti said.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), fighting for an independent homeland since its formation in 1979, called police and local reporters and claimed responsibility for Tuesday night's killings of the workers, who came from the neighboring state of Bihar.
The killings were similar to a string of ULFA attacks that killed more than 70 migrants workers in January.
At the heart of the violence is simmering resentment by Assam's indigenous people — most of whom are ethnically closer to people in Myanmar and China than India — against the federal government in New Delhi, some 1,000 miles to the west, and ethnic Indians who have migrated to the state over the centuries.
Critics say New Delhi exploits the northeast's rich natural resources while doing little for indigenous people.
Several separatist groups, of which ULFA is the most prominent, have been fighting since 1979 for an independent homeland in Assam.
Peace talks between ULFA and the Indian government broke down in September last year after a six-week truce.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_re_as/india_rebel_killings_1
GAUHATI, India - Separatist rebels fatally shot six migrant workers in northeastern India's restive Assam state, police officials said Wednesday.
The rebels armed with automatic weapons descended on Belbari village and killed five people, said V.K. Ramisetti, the Dibrugarh district police chief. Another migrant worker was gunned down in the nearby district of Sivasagar, Ramisetti said.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), fighting for an independent homeland since its formation in 1979, called police and local reporters and claimed responsibility for Tuesday night's killings of the workers, who came from the neighboring state of Bihar.
The killings were similar to a string of ULFA attacks that killed more than 70 migrants workers in January.
At the heart of the violence is simmering resentment by Assam's indigenous people — most of whom are ethnically closer to people in Myanmar and China than India — against the federal government in New Delhi, some 1,000 miles to the west, and ethnic Indians who have migrated to the state over the centuries.
Critics say New Delhi exploits the northeast's rich natural resources while doing little for indigenous people.
Several separatist groups, of which ULFA is the most prominent, have been fighting since 1979 for an independent homeland in Assam.
Peace talks between ULFA and the Indian government broke down in September last year after a six-week truce.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_re_as/india_rebel_killings_1