Guwahati, July 28 -- The Assam government will launch one of the largest eviction operations in its recent history on Tuesday, July 29, deploying more than 2,200 personnel and over 100 bulldozers to clear 11,000 bighas of allegedly encroached land in Uriamghat, within the Rengma Reserve Forest near the Assam-Nagaland border.

The three-day operation will target a cluster of settlements in areas such as Sonari Beel, Madhupur, Kherbari, Doloni Pathar, Bidyapur, and Ithaghat, villages largely inhabited by minority Muslim families.

Officials believe that many residents are either undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh or migrants from other parts of Assam, West Bengal, and Bihar. They report that some families control as much as 400 bighas ...