印度部族暴力衝突:波多蘭戰線
Kati Hemram (13) and Chandan Basumatary (14) were lying on adjacent beds in the emergency ward of Tezpur Medical College & Hospital. Except for their ethnic identities, everything else about them was similar: their age, their innocence and the description of their wound – "firearm injury right upper chest [sic]".
凱蒂·赫姆蘭(13歲)和查丹·巴什馬特麗(14歲)，躺在提斯普爾醫學院的急診病房的相鄰病牀上，他們除了種族特徵不同以外，關於他們的一切卻是相似的，有相同的年齡，無辜的樣貌，以及被"火器傷"的右上方胸口。
Kati is an Adivasi while Chandan is a Bodo. Adivasi is a collective term for tribes like Munda, Santhal, Orang and so on. They were brought to Assam by the British to work in tea gardens. Bodo is a tribe native to Assam's western districts. The two tribes had been living amicably for decades in far-flung villages inside the forests of Assam bordering Arunachal Pradesh.
凱蒂是阿迪瓦西人，而查丹是波多族人。阿迪瓦西是Munda、Santhal、Orang等部落的總稱，他們是被英國人帶到阿薩姆邦爲茶園工作的。波多則是在阿薩姆邦的一個土着部落，這兩個部落在阿薩姆邦與阿魯納洽爾邦接壤的森林裏，已經友好相處了幾十年。But now they are vying for each other's blood.
但是現在他們正爲彼此血染戰場。
Though the violence has stopped now, it would take a long time to do away with feelings of animosity and restore trust between the two communities.
儘管暴力事件現在已停止，還會花很長時間來遠離仇恨情緒，恢復兩族之間的信任。It all started on December 23 when terrorists belonging to the anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) lead by I K Songbijit open fired on Adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts in a series of attacks at four places, according to the state administration. Soon after the carnage, Adivasis retaliated, setting off a chain reaction of violence.
這一切都要從12月23日開始，在索尼提普爾和科克拉賈地區一系列的攻擊中，由波多民族民主解放陣線(NDFB)帶頭拒絕對話的恐怖份子從4處地點對阿迪瓦西人開槍。在屠殺後不久，阿迪瓦西人予以報復引發暴力的連鎖反應。Considering the extent of bloodshed, Kati and Chandan would be called lucky survivors of the madness that claimed 81 lives including 26 women and 18 infants in Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Udalguri and Chirang districts of Assam, according to a PTI report.
根據印度報業托拉斯的一份報告，在阿薩姆邦的索尼提普爾、科克拉古、烏達古裏和齊朗地區，考慮到事情的血腥程度，比起奪走81條性命其中包含26名婦女和18名幼兒的瘋狂行徑來說，凱蒂和查丹可以說是幸運的生還者了。Around 1.8 lakh people, both Adivasis and Bodos, were forced to leave their homes en masse and take refuge in relief camps set up in nearby schools, Anganwadis, churches and so on. Sonitpur was the worst-affected district.
大約18萬人(阿迪瓦西人和波多人)被迫成羣離開家園，並在設立於附近的學校、庇護所、教堂等地避難。索尼提普爾是被影響最嚴重的地區。One of the biggest Adivasi relief camps in Sonitpur was set up in the campus of Tinisuti High School near Bishwanath Cariali. The camp housed 3,000 people – not only from Fulbari, the village where the killings happened, but also from nearby villages since they were too scared to continue living there.
索尼提普爾的最大阿迪瓦西人救濟營，設立於比斯瓦納特恰里亞利附近的提尼蘇底中學校園。這個營地安置了3000人，不只有來自Fulbari (被屠殺的村莊)的，也有來自臨近村莊因爲他們太害怕在那裏繼續生活。Soniram Hemram, a 22-year-old man, was probably the first person to be killed in Fulbari Village by the NDFB(S) militants. Munuk Hemram, Soniram's father, recounts the story. On that fateful evening, militants disguised as army men got hold of Soniram and asked him to lead them to his village. Sensing something unusual in their behaviour midway, he ran screaming towards the village asking people to run for their lives. He was shot there and then.
Soniram Hemram，22歲男子，也許是在 Fulbari 被波多武裝份子殺害的第一個人。Soniram 的父親回憶那段經過，在那個宿命的夜晚，武裝份子假扮軍人抓住Soniram，並要求帶他們到自己的村莊。在中途感覺到他們的不尋常行爲，它朝着村子奔跑尖叫並要村民趕快逃命，他就在那被槍殺。Twenty-nine people died on the spot; including Soniram's mother. Another girl, Lulima Baski (20) lost her entire family in this carnage except her father, who works outside Assam. Her mother (40) and three siblings were killed in cold blood. Her youngest sister was just two years old.
29人當場死亡；包含 Soniram 的母親。另一名女子Lulima Baski (20歲)除了她父親離開阿薩姆邦在外工作，全家喪命。她的母親(40歲)和三兄妹被冷血殺害。最年輕的妹妹才2歲大。
