Bulldozers Roar in Assam, India: Over 1,100 Muslim Families Suffer, 10 Mosques Razed

More than 1,100 Bengali Muslim families have been rendered homeless in a two-day eviction drive across Assam’s Nagaon, Hojai and Golaghat districts, with authorities demolishing homes and reportedly razing more than 10 mosques, some of them over 50 years old. According to media reports, on Sunday, the second day of the operation, authorities demolished the homes of more than 600 Muslim families in the Lutumari Longjap Reserve Forest in Nagaon district, claiming that the structures had been built on encroached forest land. A day earlier, 547 families were evicted under tight security across the three districts — 336 in Nagaon,...