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Tripura rebels gun down 21 Bangalees

AFP, Guwahati
At least 21 Bangalees were shot dead and eight wounded in two attacks early yesterday by tribal rebels in Tripura, police said.
Some 20 rebels wearing hoods and armed with assault rifles and machetes dragged sleeping villagers from their houses in Fimnacherra, 25 km north of Agartala, lined them up and shot them at close range, police said.
Nineteen -- including women and children -- died on the spot while eight villagers were severely wounded, said Gautam Das, chief of Tripura's counter insurgency unit.
He said the rebels were from the banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and that a manhunt had been launched to find the assail-
ants.
The injured were being treated in hospitals in Agartala. The condition of two was critical, medical personnel said.
In the second attack, two people were gunned down by members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) near Agartala early yesterday, Das said.
All the 21 killed were ethnic Bangalees, he said. Tribal militants charge that Bangalee settlers have changed the demographic makeup of Tripura, turning the indigenous population into a minority.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said the militants could have escaped across the porous 856-kilometre between the state and Bangladesh.
"The militants come from bases in Bangladesh, enter villages in Tripura, commit attacks and run back to hideouts making the task of security forces immensely difficult," Sarkar told AFP.
Both the ATTF and the NLFT are outlawed groups fighting for the past decade for an independent homeland for Tripura's tribal community.
Tribes who constituted a majority at the time of India's independence from British rule in 1947 now make up just 30 percent of the state's 3.1 million population.
According to the rebel groups, 70 percent of state residents are Bangalees, who have been migrating from Bangladesh since the country won independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Earlier this year, New Delhi announced a drive to deport about two millions of Bangladeshis it said had entered its territory illegally and could pose a security threat.
The measure was announced after 213 people, who India said were snake charmers from Bangladesh, were stranded in noman's land between the two neighbours in February this year, triggering a diplomatic crisis.
India later said the impasse had been defused by Bangladesh taking back the stranded migrants, which Dhaka denied.