Eviction drive is ethnic cleansing

GUWAHATI, June 14 ? Terming the ongoing eviction drive in the State as ?ethnic cleansing?, the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC), Karbi Students? Association (KSA) and Karbi Nimso Chingthur Asong (KNCA) today said it was a conspiracy of the Congress regime to drive out the indigenous and tribal population from their forest habitats including tribal belts and blocks by systematically depriving them of long overdue ownership of land, and justifying this anti-people action under the pretext of the Supreme Court directive. In a statement, the organisations alleged that the Statewide eviction drive was targeting mostly the tribal people who are already on the verge of being overwhelmed by the continued influx of foreigners, while giving the illegal foreign settlers a free arm.