Insurgency / Assam

KOKRAJHAR, July 15 ? Nine Adivasi camp inmates including four women and a children were killed and six others injured when suspected NDFB militants fired indiscriminately in the relief camp (Bhuraka-Maligaon) just 28 km way from Kokrajhar police station yesterday night at about 10.45 pm. The slain Adivasi camp inmates were identified as Fulmoni Kisku (25), F Hasda (32), Malbo Hembram (30), Fulmoni Hasdo (40), Rajda Murmu (33), Rupu Hasda (45), Suraj Murmu (13), C Hasda (20) and Uku Hasda (5).

Five injured persons were being treated in RNB Civil Hospital in Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police...

GUWAHATI, July 12? The security forces have geared up operations along the Indo-Bhutan border in the wake of the Royal government?s pressure on the militant groups operating from different hideouts of that country. Official sources today disclosed that the security forces are keeping a close watch on the border to prevent the militants from sneaking into the state. ?The entire Indo-Bhutan border is sensitive and hence we have to remain vigilant to foil any attack of the militants?, the sources said. It may be recalled that the Bhutan government has asked the militants to vacate its soil.

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GUWAHATI, July 11 ? Militant outfit National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), today said that if the government is concerned about preservation of forests, it should first clear the tribal belts and blocks illegally occupied by unathorised people for settlement of the indigenous people now living in forest land. In a statement released to the press today, publicity secretary of the NDFB B Erakdao said that keeping in mind the serious issue of preserving the ecological balance, the NDFB, from the very beginning, had been advocating the need for preservation of forests and other natural...

GUWAHATI, July 9 ? The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) have started relocating their training camps fearing a joint military operation in the southern part of Bhutan. Highly-placed official sources today disclosed that the leadership of the militant outfits have stepped up vigilance in the southern part of the Himalayan Kingdom to avoid causality during operations.

?According to reports, the militant groups have jointly set up monitoring cell in Samdrup Jongkhar to keep a watch on the movement of security personnel along the border...

SIVASAGAR, July 7 ? A CBI team led by DSP MS Khan, interrogated ULFA?s Rongpur Anchalik Commander Arpan Saikia alias Nironjan Borthakur alias Keshov Mohanta in Sivasagar jail for two days since yesterday. Arpan Saikia was arrested by Dibrugarh police on June 12 at Khowang and was handed over to Sivasagar police on June 22 last. According to sources, Saikia was interrogated by the CBI team mainly on his alleged involvement with the bomb blast case in which AGP leader Nagen Sarmah was killed. The CBI team appealed to Sivasagar CJM?s Court for permission to interrogate Arpan Saikia. The Court...

NEW DELHI, July 7 ?? Bhutan has decided to carry the war into the enemy?s camp by asking outlawed ULFA to shut down its headquarters. At a final round of joint meeting with the outfit?s chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa and commander-in-chief, Paresh Baruah they are likely to be given the marching orders. In an apparent shift of strategy, the Royal Government of Bhutan instead of targeting individual camps and hounding out ULFA cadres operating out of the country, has decided to start from the top by asking the outfit to close down its main headquarters. It now appears that the Royal Government...

NEW DELHI, July 4 ? The State Government today asked for additional forces for counter-insurgency operations in Assam, even as it claimed that the law-and-order situation in the State has seen a marked improvement. The internal security scenario in Assam was reviewed at a meeting between the Deputy Prime Minister Sri LK Advani and Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi here today.

At the meeting that was mainly convened to discuss the Bodo issue, the Chief Minister complained about the withdrawal of para-military forces from the State by the Centre. The situation is alarming in the light of the growing...

GUWAHATI, July 4? Taking advantage of the porous Indo-Bangla border, Bangladesh based organisation Jamat-E-Islami is trying to extend help to organisations like Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULTA), security sources said here. Sources said that the gameplan of the Jamat-E-Islami came to light after the arrest of one MULTA activist Sahadat Hussain in Dhubri district. Sahadat, who hails from Chandpur district of Bangladesh, was sent to Jamat-E-Islami last year to spread the network of the organisation in Assam through the Islamic militant outfits active in Assam. He was given guidance...

GUWAHATI, July 3 ? A 20-member group of the banned ULFA has sneaked into several districts of Lower Assam in a bid to collect funds, highly-placed official sources disclosed today. The sources said that the group including three women cadres of the militant outfit had entered the Nalbari district last week at the instruction of the leadership. ?Their aim is to collect funds and mobilise the youths of lower Assam to join the ULFA? they said. (In this context, the sources revealed that the security forces have already geared up vigilance to nab the cadres who are now operating from various...

GUWAHATI, July 1 : The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has criticized the State Government for inviting Indian oil giants to explore oil in the State. A report published in The Freedom, newsletter of the militant outfit, said the ?puppet Government? has encouraged the oil giants to exploit the State. During the last several decades the Indian oil companies have been exploiting the State and hence the Chief Minister should not sell out the property of the State just to satisfy the masters of Delhi, the report said. In another report the leadership has rejected the safe-passage granted by...