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India tea workers burn boss to death in Assam state
Hundreds of tea plantation workers have set alight their boss's bungalow in north-east India, burning to death the owner and his wife, officials say. Angry workers surrounded the bungalow at Kunapathar in Assam state late on Wednesday, following a two-week long dispute with the management. Police said the incident happened after the management asked some workers to leave their accommodation. More than half of India's tea output comes from 800 tea estates in Assam. Local official SS Meenakshi Sundaram said some 700 tea garden workers surrounded the manager's bungalow on Wednesday evening and set it on fire. Two vehicles belonging to the manager were also torched. The charred bodies of Mridul Kumar Bhattacharyya and his wife, Rita, were later recovered from the debris, Mr Sundaram said. Police have detained three workers in connection with the incident. Officials said Mr Bhattacharyya and his workers had been locked in a dispute for the past two weeks. They said Mr Bhattacharyya had also faced protests at another tea estate that he owned two years ago. In that dispute, angry workers set fire to his tea factory near the state capital, Guwahati, after he had allegedly fired on a crowd that had gathered near his house to protest against a reported attack on a local woman. Several incidents of attacks on tea executives by angry workers have been reported from Assam in recent years.
One man should not be a slave to another man. But we used to think that negros are slaves. Everyone is free from birth, it's written in all the scriptures. Enslaved people make me sympathetic rather than hatred. Exploiters often become culprits of their aggression.
Do you know the history of the Negroid race? Do you despise them? Do you want to protect the enslaved people? Whose side are you on: the slaves or the owner of a tea factory? Do you consider that this incident is a rarity nowadays?
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This is a terrible story! I heard that tea workers work about 18 hours a day but I don'y think that they so hate their bosses! This human cruelty shocked me very much. I don't believe that people capable of such.
