This refers to the editorial, “Terror re-visits Assam” (August 8). Assam has been grappling with violence of various militant groups for decades now. The killing of 14 civilians in a tiny bazaar in Assam is an example of this. The gun-wielding faction of the Bodos is now demanding a State. This is a wish no Government can afford to fulfil as it will set off competing demands from other ethnicities not just in Assam but other North-Eastern States as well.
Though the security forces did well to reach the massacre site and gun down one of the assailants, it is time for a repeat of ‘Operation All Clear’ that had uprooted the United liberation Front of Asom camps in 2003.