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Land-grabbers attack adivasis Faizul Khan Tanim visits the indigenous Oraon community in Naogaon who were recently attacked by local land-grabbers, leaving 16 houses gutted and many injured photo by Al-Emrun Garjon At 7:00am on November 5, a neighbourhood of the indigenous Oraon community in Uttar Kazipara village of Patnitala Upazilla of Naogaon district woke up to a violent assault by local hoodlums who set fire on 16 thatched mud houses, broke them, looted goods, and burnt the rest that could not bagged. More astonishingly, the attack was launched upon the women of the community as most of the men had gone to work. ‘We had earlier heard that they would attack us on the night of November 4 so we had set up strong guard and vigilance to resist them, throughout the night,’ says Mohishshor Karkata, a community member. ‘But nothing happened that night.’ ‘But following morning, the gang decided to instigate their attack shamelessly on our unarmed women as we all men went to work. They t...