Insurgency / Assam

KOKRAJHAR, Feb 3 — The State government has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the brutal killings of five villagers in Kokrajhar district yesterday. Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Home, Sri Pradyut Bordoloi accompanied by Lower Assam Commissioner, Sri P P Verma visited the area to take stock of the situation. Sri Bordoloi assured the people that the State government would take all possible steps to find out the fact.

Today, hundreds of people in the locality took out a procession with playcards and demanded punishment against the people involved in the brutal killings. They also...

GUWAHATI, Feb 2 – In their continued attack on non-Bodos, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants killed five persons in lower Assam’s Kokrajhar district today. Official sources said five persons of Nepali-origin had gone to the Chirang reserve forest near Ultapani to collect firewoods when the militants shot and killed them on the spot.

GUWAHATI, Jan 31 – The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) have come to an agreement to launch joint operations against the security forces, highly-placed official sources disclosed today. The sources further said that the leadership of the militant outfits had signed an agreement before the Republic Day to launch joint operations and collect funds in some selected pockets of the State. “The modus operandi of the outfits came to light following the arrest of ULFA members. During questioning they (ULFA members) revealed that ULFA had also...

NEW DELHI, Jan 30 — Border Security Force (BSF) is likely to be deployed along the Indo-Bhutan border shortly in a bid to check the free movement of insurgents across the international border in the State, even as Assam Government sought additional para-military forces. At a meeting with Union Home Minister LK Advani, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi briefed him about the prevailing situation in the State in the wake of the sudden spurt in killings by the underground outfits including the ULFA and the NDFB militants.

The Chief Minister who was accompanied by top State Government officials...

GUWAHATI, Jan 30 — The police and the security forces are fighting insurgency with their hands tied because of the militants’ bases in the neighbouring country, Bhutan, said Minister of State for Home, Pradyut Bordoloi. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Sri Bordoloi said that the militants frequently sneak into their bases in the neighbouring country after each strike, making the task difficult for the security forces. He revealed that Assam has around 265 kms of virtually unprotected border with Bhutan and the need of the hour is to seal the border with effective dominance of security forces. He...

GUWAHATI, Jan 28 — Some “agents” of the Government of India are trying to meet the leaders of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) for talks and the leaders of the outfit may talk to them shortly. This was disclosed by the NDFB chairman, Sri DR Nabla. In an interview with The Assam Tribune, conducted through internet, the NDFB chairman also spoke of issues like recent killings of non-Bodos in Udalguri and Bijni, talks between the Government and Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) etc. The following are the excerpts from the interview:

Assam Tribune : According to police and the security...

GUWAHATI, Jan 27 – Two policemen, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Kamrup District, Sri Devajit Pathak, and the driver of his vehicle Sri Digbijoy Dutta, were killed, while 21 others were injured, six of them seriously, in three separate incidents of extremist bomb blasts in the State today. According to police sources, suspected ULFA militants activated an improvised explosive device on the Boko-Nalapara Road around 1.30 pm today blowing off the vehicle in which Sri Devajit Pathak, along with his four personal security officers (PSOs) was travelling. The police party was...

TURA, Jan 24 — Unidentified gunmen shot dead Gandhi Teron, vice-chairman of the United Peoples Democratic Society (UPDS) at his residence at Monitilla village in Karbi Anglong district on Wednesday around 8.15 pm, according to reports available here. Teron was one of the UPDS leaders in favour of talks with the Government and it is suspected that he was killed at the behest of those opposing dialogue. Police recovered empty cartriogdes of AK-47 rifles from the site of the incident. Vigorous investigation was on, police said.

UDALGURI, Jan 23 – Security vigil along the 265-long Indo-Bhutan border will be tightened to stop the militants from perpetrating henious crimes like the massacre of innocents at No. 3 Borigaon and Bijni once again. This was said by Sri Pradyut Bordoloi, Minister of State for Home Affairs, while interacting with the local media persons here at Udalguri circuit house on January 23. Commenting on the carnage carried out by militant outfits, Sri Bordoloi said that the killings in Bijni and Udalguri was a conspiracy and it was carried out by the NDFB extremists.

On the security of the innocent...

UDALGURI, Jan 22— The death toll of last night’s brutal massacre of Hindi-speaking villagers of No 3 Borigaon under Udalguri police station in Darrang district today went up to 18 following deaths of two injured persons on way to Guwahati Medical College Hospital here. According to latest information about the massacre carried out by suspected NDFB militants, a heavily armed group of ultras wearing olive green fatigues swooped down on the village around 8 pm yesterday. They called out members of seven Hindi-speaking families of the village and told them to stand in a line before opening...