Fresh anti-CAA agitation by 18 orgs in Assam from Dec 11

Agencies

December 9, 2020

Guwahati, Dec 9: Organisations opposed to the CAA in Assam on Wednesday announced a fresh agitation against the Act from Friday, to mark one year of similar agitation last year in which five persons died in police firing.

The organisations would also launch the agitation seeking the release of anti-CAA activist and leader of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), Akhil Gogoi, who is in judicial custody since December 12 last year.

KMSS and 17 other organisations are gearing up to launch the agitation from Sivasagar in eastern Assam and gradually to rest of the state seeking a rollback of the CAA. The amended act seeks to allow non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan till 2014, after a stay of six years.

"BJP government put Akhil, me and several others into jail for protesting against the CAA last year. But indigenous people of Assam are still not scared to raise their voice against the act. We must fight against the amendment which will make 1.90 crore Hindu migrants Indian citizens. Indigenous people will become a minority and lose the ethnic identity, culture and language," KMSS leader Dhaijjya Konwar said on Wednesday.

Konwar was also arrested along with Akhil on December 12 last year when the anti-CAA agitation turned violent in Guwahati and other parts of the state. Vehicles were set on fire, offices and BJP leaders were attacked and public properties damaged. The agitation even forced the Centre to postpone the Indo-Japan Summit scheduled to be held in Guwahati in January.

At least five persons died in police firing while curfew and restriction on the internet was clamped for days in order to bring the situation under control. Akhil was arrested and subsequently booked on sedition charge by the NIA. Akhil's bail plea is still pending in Gauhati High Court.

"If we don't fight and force the government to scrap the CAA, the day is not far when a Bangladesh-origin person will become a Chief Minister in Assam and seats in Assembly and other elected bodies will be occupied by such persons," Konwar said.

The ruling BJP is likely to deal the situation as sternly as it did last year as the fresh agitation ahead of Assembly elections slated in April-May may cause harm to it.

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Israeli forces invade southwestern Syria, set up checkpoint in Quneitra

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November 24,2025

Israeli forces have pushed over the Syrian frontier, erecting a checkpoint and stopping vehicles in the southwestern city of Quneitra, in yet another breach of the Arab country’s sovereignty.

The violation took place on Sunday, when the troops made their way across the border, setting up the outpost near the Ain al-Bayda junction in northern Quneitra, Syrian outlets reported.

According to the al-Ikhbariya paper, an Israeli detachment positioned itself at the junction, halting cars and conducting searches.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that three Israeli military vehicles then moved further into the northern countryside, deploying between the town of Jubata al-Khashab and the villages of Ofaniya and Ain al-Bayda. The agency added that a separate Israeli unit mounted a new incursion in the central region, approaching the villages of Umm Batina and al-Ajraf.

Residents said such activities have surged in recent months, pointing to Israeli advances onto farmland, leveling of extensive forested areas, arrests, and spread of mobile checkpoints.

The Israeli regime began markedly increasing its military aggression against Syria last year.

The escalation coincided with increasingly ferocious onslaughts throughout the country by the so-called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Takfiri terrorist group, which the government of President Bashar al-Assad had confined to northwestern Syria. The HTS, however, managed to overthrow the government as the Israeli attacks would pummel the country’s civilian and defensive infrastructure.

Various reports have shown that, during the escalation, the regime conducted more than 1,000 airstrikes on the Syrian territory and over 400 ground raids into the south.

Following the collapse of the Assad government, Tel Aviv also widened its grip over the occupied Golan Heights by taking control of a demilitarized buffer zone, in defiance of a 1974 Disengagement Agreement. Earlier this month, senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the buffer zone, prompting expressions of alarm on the part of the United Nations.

The United States, the regime’s biggest ally, has, meanwhile, been fraternizing the HTS head Abu Mohammed al-Jolani amid the widely reported prospect of rapprochement with Tel Aviv.

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