Insurgency / Assam

GUWAHATI, Dec 2: Even as the ULFA has found for itself a new foothold to inch its way back to the popularity charts by targeting the Bihari community in the State, there is increasing evidence that it is forging close links with the Nepalese Maoist rebels and setting up bases in the Himalayan kingdom. Security sources said here that the ULFA and the Maoists have recently agreed to have the Assam rebel outfit operate three new bases in Nepal. In fact, there are also reports that the ULFA have been already operating a few camps there since much earlier. The two rebel groups have also agreed to...

Dec. 1: Strife-torn Karbi Anglong witnessed more bloodshed today with militants suspected to be from the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) gunning down four Karbi villagers while they were praying in a church and torched 48 houses in Bokajan subdivision of the district. In Dibrugarh district, miscreants last night set ablaze nine shops belonging to members of the Bihari community.

The KRA struck in Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district for the second time in three days. The militant group killed six Karbis and torched nearly 116 houses in a pre-dawn swoop on Saturday.

The assailants...

SHILLONG, Dec 1: Over 4000 people of Khasi-Pnars tribe, sheltering in relief camps for over three weeks in the Jaintia Hills district after fleeing their homes in Assam?s Karbi Anglong district following threats by militants, have started returning today, reports PTI. ?We have arranged transportation to help the Khasi-Pnars? return to their homes. They should leave today,? Jaintia Hills district Deputy Commissioner L Kharkongor told PTI over phone. The Khasi-Pnars, who had been put up in camps at Sahsniang village of Jaintia Hills district, agreed to return to their homes in Block I and Block...

Silchar, June 13: After weeks of acrimony and bloodbath, the warring Dimasa and Hmar tribes tonight signed an accord to revive their friendship and help the administration restore peace in North Cachar Hills district of Assam.

Health minister Bhumidhar Barman, who is leading a Cabinet fact-finding team to the strife-torn district, brokered the accord between the Hmar Inpi and the Dimasa Zadike. Sources said president of the Hmar Inpi, Nubak Thanga Hmar, and his counterpart in the Dimasa organisation, Gunin Langthasa, signed the agreement at the Haflong Circuit House.

Before the accord, the...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? The outlawed National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) has ?warned? the leaders of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) and members of the Boro Legislature Party and Parliamentarians who have been ?carrying about their selfish political gameplan through the use of their muscle power called the BTC.? The outfit?s information and publicity secretary B Erakdao has accused the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) and the army of perpetrating atrocities on ?innocent Boro people.? In an e-mailed statement here, Erakdao accused the Government of India of engaging itself in a...

NEW DELHI, June 9 ? Confusion reigned over reports ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah falling to assassin?s bullets in Bangladesh yesterday. There was no confirmation of the reports by the Union Government. The rumour on attempt on the elusive commander in-chief following reports of a similar attack on his life last month in the neighbouring country in which he reportedly escaped unhurt.

But the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has played it safe refusing to comment on the reports. Sources in the Ministry said they had seen the reports but have no confirmation of the incident. It takes about...

GUWAHATI, June 8 ? The close nexus between the banned ULFA and the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samity (MASS) has been exposed once again with the arrest of a woman member of the outfit while she was on her way to the residence of MASS central committee member Minati Bora near the MASS office in the Bamunimaidan area of the city last night. ULFA member Kalyani Keleng alias Jonali Keleng alias Sunita Sonowal of Jagiroad was arrested at about 9.30 pm last night by a joint team of Morigaon and Guwahati city police. She was by her own admission, walking to the house of Minati Bora, rented out from one...

GUWAHATI, June 8? The banned ULFA is in a state of disarray following serious, and violent, differences among its top leadership, security sources said. The state of affairs is such that large sections of its lower-level cadres are contemplating surrender. According to the sources, the widespread sense of desolation among the ULFA ranks stems largely from the battle of supremacy between the top ULFA leadership, particularly the outfit?s ?commander-in-chief? Paresh Barua and his deputy Raju Barua. While Paresh Barua is in Bangladesh enjoying the hospitality of Bangladeshi and Pakistani...

Kokrajhar, June 4: Suspected National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) militants abducted two forest officials from Kuklung reserve forest under Bijni police station in Bongaigaon district this morning.

Police sources said the two assistant conservators under the West Kokrajhar forest division had gone to Kuklung in two Maruti vans and a truck to check the progress of pillar consolidation.

?Two motorcycle-borne militants kidnapped the officials at gunpoint,? a senior police official said. Other militants who were hiding nearby snatched the car keys. The Kuklung reserve forest is on the...

KOKRAJHAR, June 4 ? Suspected NDFB militants abducted two assistant conservators of forest of western Assam circle area at about 1.30 a m today from Khuk-lung reserve forest. The kidnapped forest officials are Hamidur Hussain and Bodiuz Zaman. According to the sources, the forest officials were abducted while they were inspecting the boundary pillars work at Khuk-lung reserve forest just near the Indo-Bhutan border under Bijni subdivision.