What triggered the flare up along the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district? The answer is bizarre if one go through the home ministry report.
According to the report sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the entire shocking episode was triggered by a trifle and dispute between Salman Sama, an Adivasi farmer and a Naga person Ekon Lotha.
Then it took an ethnic turn when the Adivasi National Liberation Army took the side of Salman while NSCN-IM and Khole Kitovi backed Lotha.
But the situation was compounded by simmering protest by the so-called activists like Akhil Gogoi indirectly backed by a section of Congress leaders---opposed to Chief minister Tarun Gogoi.
Violent protest against the government resulted in police lathicharge and firing where three people killed and over 20 others injured in Erengapar area forcing the authorities to clam curfew in the sensitive areas.
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