Assam Riot 2012
Ethnic tensions between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims escalated into a riot in Kokrajhar on 20 July 2012, when unidentified miscreants killed four Bodo youths at Joypur. This was followed by retaliatory attacks on Local Muslims killing two and injuring several of them on the morning of 21 July 2012. Almost 80 people were killed, most of whom were Bengali Muslims and some Bodos. 400,000 people were displaced to makeshift camps. Most of the displaced were Muslims. The Indian army was deployed with orders ‘to shoot on sight’. Around 500 villages had been destroyed through arson. CBI on 19 September 2012, carried out first arrests by arresting five youths in connection with the alleged lynching of four former Bodo youths in Kokrajhar area on 20 July.
