Peace and Collaborative Development Network
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June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Police and ministers pointed fingers at the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (Huji) but suspected that the state’s chief separatist insurgent outfit, Ulfa, lent a hand.
Guwahati bore the brunt with 60 killed and 167 wounded in three blasts — at the busy Ganeshguri market 1.5km from the seat of power in Dispur; in heart-of-the city Panbazar, and on the compound of the chief judicial magistrate’s (CJM’s) court in a high-security zone.
Windowpanes were shattered 300 yards away and tremors felt a mile from the sites, residents said.
A mass of burnt flesh lay in front of the CJM’s court, located near the district commissioner’s office and the general post office.
Thick, black smoke billowed over the Ganeshguri flyover as people ran helter-skelter, some limping to hospital on one leg, clothes soaked in blood. A driver was slumped inside a car, scorched to the bones.
At Panbazar, the blast took place 100 yards from the local police station in the neighbourhood of a hospital and a church.
“In my 20 years as a nurse, I never saw so many people with such severe burns,” said Anjana Saikia at Gauhati Medical College Hospital, which appealed for blood donations as over 200 injured were brought in.
Twenty people were killed and 60 injured in the three blasts in Kokrajhar, while the two Barpeta Road bombs killed 14 and injured 70. The Bongaigaon blast was an accident — a bomb went off while being taken away to be defused, injuring 10 people including the additional and deputy superintendents of police and an army captain.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said RDX was used in the Guwahati bombs. These were planted in vehicles as in most of the recent blasts in India, officers said but struggled to pinpoint these vehicles amid the dozens of mangled cars. The police suspect that small cars were used at the CJM court and Panbazar and an autorickshaw at Ganeshguri.
Khagen Sarma, inspector-general of police, said prima facie, Muslim militants were responsible. “But we are not absolving Ulfa.”
Ulfa has denied any role but intelligence reports had warned that its 709 “battalion”, active in western Assam, might retaliate against the government’s attempts to bring some members overground with a ceasefire offer.
Huji has been active in Assam, sneaking in and out at will, but has so far used it mainly as a gateway to India. A “proactive” Huji would be bad news for Assam.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister Shivraj Patil may visit the state in a day or two, said Gogoi who spoke to both over the phone.
Later it was revealed that ISI was the mastermind behind the blasts and Bodo terrorist group NDFB had planted the bombs in cars.
Just to take you through the peace of Chitral, North Pakistan. A peaceful Irland in the torment sea of terrorism on either sides.