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GUWAHATI: A worried Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday that human trafficking from Assam is becoming more a serious problem than cattle smuggling and drug peddling. And the government is committed to rooting it out, he said.
The State police rescued 40 children and two adults of the State from Sikkim. Human traffickers lured them from the villages along the Assam-Bhutan border in Chirang district.
The Chief Minister interacted with the rescued children in Guwahati on Friday. He said, Women and children trafficking from Assam go on in thousands. The traffickers put some of them in flesh trade and the rest as domestic help. This menace is turning more serious than cattle smuggling and drug peddling. We have started intense raids to put an end to the menace. We have rescued 107 women and children in the past two months.
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Dark lessons Myanmar, Syria and Rwanda hold for India
Identification of people with religion, ethnicity, race and community has become so deep-rooted, it has become simple for any government to stoke differences among its people when required
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India has not yet reached the depths of Myanmar, Syria or Rwanda of 1994 as far as religious discrimination is concerned, but there is no guarantee it will not unless civil society sheds its somnolence. Representative photo: iStock
Over the last five months, Myanmar (earlier, Burma) has quickly descended from a hopeful democracy into the black hole of military dictatorship. At last count, around 900 civilians have been killed and thousands detained in the ongoing protests for the restoration of democracy.
In Asian region they typically have four different kinds of season: spring (Vasant Ritu), autumn (Sharad Ritu), summer (Grishma Ritu), and monsoon (Varsha Ritu) but in the case of India they have six kinds of season which includes prewinter (Hemant-Ritu) and winter (Shita Ritu). During these different seasons comes different effects in the lands of India.
Strong lightning and strong winds usually come during the monsoon season. It usually hits farms where people usually farm crops, grazing camels and sheep, high elevation grounds and people who take rain lightly and play outside their households.
This monsoon usually takes place during the months of June to September. This season will give a breathing air or space for recovery from the blazing heat that the summer solstice brought to the vast lands of India.
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