India editor shot dead by gunmen

[Coventina]

Source: BBC

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead the editor of a newspaper in India's north-eastern Assam state, police say.

Anil Mazumder, editor of the Assamese daily Aji (Today), was attacked by armed men when he was returning home in the state capital, Guwahati, they said.

The attackers who came in a car shot at Mr Mazumder at point-blank range and fled, a police official said.

Local television channels say Mr Mazumder was sympathetic to the separatist movement in Assam.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7962705.stm

[slackmaster]

1. Let me take a wild guess about the Assam separatist movement

They're Islamists.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. wrong. nt

[TheCoxwain]

3. I doubt it .. the Northeast in India are mostly Christians and Hindus ..

[bemildred]

4. There are several separatist movements in Assam.

But I don't know that any are islamists.

[slackmaster]

5. I did a little Googling, and you are correct bemildrid

There are numerous separatists including some Islamists. The article in the OP doesn't say much.

[bemildred]

6. The one I know most about is Nagaland.

Which I have read about in a number of places. There are some over around the "neck" too, but I've not studied it much.