DIBRUGARH, Dec 25 ? In a strongly worded message faxed to the Prime Minister today, the All Assam Ahom Sabha has called for an end to the ?systematic annihilation of Assamese youths? in Assam and Bhutan by the security forces. The Sabha said that in Assam in the last thirteen years, thousands of Assamese youths have been killed ?mostly in fake and sometimes in actual encounters.?
The Sabha has come down heavily on the Assam Police too, saying the police have arrested and maimed Assamese youths in their hundreds and framing them in cooked up charges. Terming the Bhutanese army action against northeast militants as ?Indian forces? proxy war against youth of the northeast,? the Sabha?s president, Chou Niron Gogoi and general secretary, Chou Lakshi Nath Gogoi said there is no other term to explain the army exercise in Bhutan. They said this suspicion arises from Bhutan?s refusal to allow Red Cross and Amnesty volunteers to do an on-site inspection in the battlefields of that country.
Both demanded of the Centre to treat the other rebel groups of the northeast at par with the NSCN, so that a negotiated settlement to the grievances of the ULFA, NDFB and KLO could be sincerely attempted. The Sabha has accused Centre of adopting double standards while dealing with various aggrieved groups of the region.
The Sabha has hit out at the Centre for not doing enough to check illegal inflow of Bangladeshi nationals into the northeastern states. ?Unhindered influx of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh now threatens the region?s ethnic population to be reduced to a minority,? the Sabha said, citing Tripura as an example.