INDIAN MANDALA Assam Wants to Give Arms to the 'Indigents': Ethnic Tensions Rekindle

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The local government intends to grant only indigenous peoples licenses for "self-defense." A move that chief ministerHimanta Biswa Sarma, exponent of the BJP,justifies with security reasons, but that the opposition sees as an attempt to selectively arm communities, exacerbating ethnic tensions against Bengali Muslims.