Insurgency / Northeast

GUWAHATI, Dec 26 ? The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Kamrup today remanded the self-styled ULFA central publicity secretary Mithinga Daimari alias Deepak Das to seven days police custody in connection with SOU PS Case No 2/98 Under Section 384 IPC read with Section 10/13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

One of the counsels of the ULFA leader Advocates Bhaskar D Konwar informed that the accused was produced before the court of the CJM today by the Special Operation Unit (SOU) of Assam Police in response to the production warrant issued by the court earlier. The basic content...

TEZPUR, Dec 26 ? Finally after a weeklong drama about the death of Bhimkanta Buragohain, popularly known as ?Mama?, the Army authorities of HQ 4 Corps led by Lt General Mohinder Singh, GOC 4 Corps and the operational head of the Unified Command Structure physically produced him before the media persons at the Gajraj Officer Institute here today along with three other cadres.

The three other cadres are self-styled Major Rabin Handique, Bolin Das alias Kamal Kachari and SS Major Dr Amarjit Gogoi who were immediately whisked away from the media persons from the venue. Mama who was produced in...

NEW DELHI, Dec 25 ? Bhutan Tuesday said that its action against Indian insurgent groups on its soil was necessary because their presence was hampering the economic interests of the Himalayan kingdom, reports PTI. ?Since the illegal entry of these militants into our country, our economic and commercial activities have been greatly hampered, resulting in negative growth in Bhutan,? Foreign minister Khandu Wangchuck told NDTV 24xTV in an interview in the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu.

?The security environment at the borders was not conductive for industrial growth,? he said. He also denied any...

TAMULPUR (Nalbari), Dec 25? All the 64 kin of ULFA leaders which included some armed cadres of the outfit?s women wing captured by the Royal Bhutan Army and handed over to India yesterday, are being interrogated by the high officials of civil administration at Tamulpur under tight security. They include ULFA leader Bening Rabha?s wife Anima Rabha, Ashanta Baghphukan?s wife Hema Hangshipa and their daughter Kareng Tagtipi, Mrinmoy Hazarika?s wife Mira Sarma Hazarika and their daughter Bandana Hazarika among others.

The 27 children between the age group eight months to eight years include...

NALBARI, Dec 25 ? The on going operation of the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) against the militant outfits ?with the direct help? of the Indian Army, will make the NE people re-think the issue of sovereignty raised by the militant organisations, said president of the All Assam Students? Union (AASU) Prabin Boro here today. Sri Boro, who was talking to The Assam Tribune, also said that the recent developments in Bhutan had also made it quite relevant for the NE militants to come forward for negotiated solutions to the issues they had raised. For, he said, the militants should honour the sentiments...

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...

GUWAHATI, Dec 24 ?The banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) today virtually rejected the general amnesty offered by the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for those ultras who are willing to give up arms. In a statement e-mailed to this newspaper office this evening, the banned outfit came down heavily on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for giving call to the members of the outfit to surrender in the wake of the military offensive launched by the Bhutanese Army. The ULFA criticised the Chief Minister for showing the ?audacity? to give the call to surrender at a time when ?barbaric Bhutanese? Army...

DARRANGAMELA (Indo-Bhutan border), Dec 24 ? The Royal Bhutan Army was heading towards its goal of flushing out Indian militants from their soil on the tenth day of their ?Operation All Clear?, reports PTI. After demolishing 30 camps set up by the militants in their kingdom, the troops cordoned off the area near the camps to search for the rebels who fled after they were dislodged, official sources in Bhutan told a visiting PTI correspondent.

With no leaders to give them directions, nowhere to go and hungry, the fleeing militants were desperate to surrender to either the RBA or Indian...

GUWAHATI, Dec 24 ? Governor of Assam Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh today claimed that some major leaders of the banned ULFA, NDFB and KLO outfits who are on the run in Bhutan have established contact with the security forces in the country expressing desire to surrender. Talking to the media at Raj Bhawan here for the first time since the Royal Bhutan Army launched the crackdown on Northeast militants outfits, the Governor sent out the message to the ultras that those who are willing to surrender could do so at the nearest security post in the country without fear for their lives as the Government...

TAMULPUR, Dec 24 ? Ending the week-long speculation, the Royal Government of Bhutan today handed over 64 kin of the ULFA militants at Samdrup Jongkhar to the Nalbari district administration. Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Samdrup Jongkhar formally handed over the militants? kin to the DC of Nalbari at the Samdrup Jongkhar High School this morning.

The kin were later taken to the Tampulpur 30-bedded Hospital campus by the Nalbari district administration by two buses. The kin included 37 women and 27 children .Five of the women were unmarried.The women included the wife of Ashanta Bagh Phukan...