Eleven die in tribal shootout.Provided by 7DAYS.ae Indian security forces killed at least 11 tribal militants in a fierce gun battle yesterday in the country's restive northeast, a police officer said. The fighting took place in a mountainous region of the northeastern state of Assam, where 30 armed militants were intercepted by security forces during a patrol, said the officer. "Eleven of them were killed and several others injured," he said. The injured were taken away by other militants. Police suspect the dead rebels to be members of a breakaway group of the little known Dima Halam Daogah (DHD DHD Dial Home Device (Stargate) DHD Direitos Humanos e Desenvolvimento (Human Rights and Development, Mozambique) DHD Dahod (Railway Station, Indian) ) group, fighting for regional autonomy Regional autonomy is the term for the decentralisation of governance to outlying regions. Recent examples of disputes over autonomy include:
The DHD is on a ceasefire and currently holding talks with the government, butA breakaway factions frequently target non-tribals working in saw mills and farmlands. India's northeast has seen separatist and tribal insurgencies for the past 60 years, as militants accuse New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. of plundering the region's mineral and forest resources. [c] 2007 Al Sidra Media Al Sidra Media LLC is a publishing company based in Dubai, UAE. It publishes the popular English-language newspaper 7Days, which is distributed for free. External links
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