Watch | An Eviction Protest, Police Firing and 2 Deaths: What Led to the Brutality in Assam?
Visuals of police brutality have emerged amidst promise from locals that the protests against the eviction drive will continue.
File image of the eviction drive at Assam. Photo: Debananda Medak.
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Horrific visuals of police brutality have emerged from an eviction drive in the Sipajhar area of Darrang district of Assam on Thursday, showing policemen opening fire at a man and thrashing him. A photographer, identified by news agency PTI as Bijay Shankar Baniya, is also seen assaulting the man, who appears to have a bullet wound in his chest.
The Wire's national affairs editor Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty and senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani discuss the politics of the region, the conflicting versions and what this means for the future of Assam.
This article went live on September twenty-fourth, two thousand twenty one, at forty-five minutes past ten in the morning.
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