Assam – 2000 Bangladeshi-origin illegal Muslim settlers evicted from elephant inhabited reserve forest
The Assam government cleared down yet another “Reserve forest” in the Goalpara district. On September 24, 2,000 “illegal settlers” from 450 Muslim families of Bangladeshi descent were evicted from their illegal homes, which they constructed in the forest land on 55–60 hectares of forest land, in the Goalpara district. According to media reports, the eviction…
