Udalguri: Authorities in Assam said on Monday the violence over the weekend that killed 32 people and injured more than 100 was systematic ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland. "The violence in the three districts of Darrang, Udalguri and Baksa was not due to clashes between the tribal Bodos and immigrant Muslims, but a planned ethnic cleansing by the NDFB to drive out all non-Bodos from the area," Assam government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. "We have already arrested four NDFB cadres on Sunday with weapons who were involved in killing a woman and a child in Baksa district," he added. There have been several incidents of arson overnight with panic-stricken villagers fleeing their homes....
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