India to push peace accords in troubled areas

Описание: (7 Feb 2020) India's prime minister said on Friday that his government will continue its peace push in the insurgency-wracked northeast, where the signing of accords with key rebel groups has led thousands of fighters to surrender.
Narendra Modi said decades of violent insurrection had ended in the Bodo tribal heartland in Assam state following the signing of the January 27 agreement by the government with the rebel group, the National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
He addressed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Bodo tribespeople, on Friday in Kokrajhar, a town 250 kilometers (150 miles) west of Gauhati, the state capital, celebrating the signing of the peace accord.
They included several hundred rebels of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland who turned out in their olive-green fatigues after surrendering to government forces at a ceremony on January 30.
On Thursday, the Bodo tribespeople lit up 70,00 oil lamps in their homes rejoicing in the relief from long-simmering land and ethnic disputes in the region.
Dozens of rebel groups have been fighting the government and each other for years in seven states in northeast India.
Modi said the tribespeople who signed the peace accord deserved the thanks of all of India.

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