Insurgency / Tripura

NEW DELHI, March 4 ? Demand for 512 companies of Central para-military forces by the three north eastern States of Assam, Manipur and Tripura, has raised questions in the Ministry of Home Affairs. The claim that violence in the North-east is on the wane runs contrary to the Government?s claim if the demand for additional forces by the three of the region?s worst insurgency affected States is any indication. The three States among themselves have sought over 500 companies of additional forces.

According to figures tabled in the Parliament last week, Assam has sought 58 companies Central para...

AIZAWL, March 3 ? Talks between Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) were held Friday in ?cordial atmosphere? with both sides expressing wish for reaching an agreement on contentious issues like Bru repartriation, reports PTI. State Chief Secretary HV Lalringa said though both sides were for early resumption of talks, the dates for the rounds could be fixed on April 10, after the assembly session was over. While Lalringa led the government delegation, the four-member BNLF team was led by its self-styled home secretary Zaithanga Apeto. Two representatives of the Bru...

AGARTALA, Feb 14 – Assam Rifles’ jawans have foiled an attack by the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) on their camp in West Tripura district Tuesday night, official sources said Wednesday. Spokesman of Assam Rifles’ Maj AJ Singh told newsmen that a group of 10 to 15 insurgents opened fire at the camp at village Ratanpur which was retaliated by the jawans and the ensuing gunbattle lasted five minutes. The insurgents, however, managed to escape under a cover of darkness and thick forest, he said. A jawan sustained minor bullet injuries and it is not yet known whether insurgents suffered any...

AGARTALA, Feb 13 – In a daredevil attempt, banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) militants attacked an Assam Rifles camp last evening at Ratanpur in West Tripura district. Heavy retaliation on the part of the Assam Rifles jawans forced the insurgents to retreat after about 50 minutes of fierce shoot out. No casualty has been reported. Assam Rifles sources said two big groups of ATTF militants armed with huge fire power and sophisticated weapons attacked the Ratanpur camp of the 11 Battalion Assam Rifles in Khowai subdivision at around 6 pm in the evening. “The militants opened fusillade of...

AGARTALA, Feb 10— Security forces shot dead a top guerrilla leader belonging to NLFT (Nayanbasi) faction yesterday. Self-styled ‘Major’ Benjamin Hrangkhal with his group was moving around Herma, Rongmala and Charilam areas in West Tripura district for quite sometime. On Saturday noon at around 1 pm CRPF personnel posted in Herma market got a tip off that Benjamin with his five followers were holed up in the house of one Ranjit Debbarma in the same village. The security personnel at once cordoned off the house and an encounter ensued. After the fierce shoot-out, CRPF recovered ‘Major’ Benjamin...

AGARTALA, Feb 6 — The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked a Mog hamlet at Nalicherra in Dhalai last night and shot dead seven villagers, all tribals. Among the killed are two women. Four more were injured in the attack. According to reports reaching here from Ambassa, district headquarters, a group of about 25 militants first cordoned off the village market at West Nalicherra at around 6.25 pm last night and opened indiscriminate firing from their automatics. Most of the villagers who were sitting at the shop of one Changmung Mog were riddled with bullets...

AGARTALA, Feb 2 — Over four hundred CPI(M) workers have been killed in attacks by insurgents and their collaborators in Tripura during the last four years, party functionary Gautam Das has claimed, reports PTI. Of the 448 activists, two belonged to the state committee of the party, 13 belonged to district committees and 14 to the local committees, Das, a member of the state secretariat of the ruling CPI(M) and editor of party mouthpiece Desher Katha told a press conference here on Friday. Meanwhile, the 17th state conference of the Tripura unit of the party will begin here from tomorrow. At...

AIZAWL, Feb 1 — The third round of talks between the Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front on repatriation of Bru refugees lodged in camps in Tripura and other issues, schedule for Thursday, have been postponed as BNLF representatives failed to turn up, reports PTI. Officials in the state home department said that the next date would be decided by the BNLF and conveyed to the state government. The last round of talks was held in November. The parleys between the two parties assumed added significance after the Mizoram government linked repatriation of the Bru refugees in...

AGARTALA, Jan 24 – Seven special police officers recruited from the civilians to assist regular police in combating militancy, decamped with firearms and ammunitions on Tuesday night from a camp in North Tripura district. They were housed in a camp at Gachhirampara under Kanchanpur police station. Apparently they left to join the militant organisation. A special alert has been sounded throughout the North Tripura district and adjoining Dhalai district. The incident while creating sensation throughout the State and also triggered off serious reaction in the police department itself. This is for...

GUWAHATI, Jan 20 — RSS chief K S Sudarshan today charged certain churches in the country including some in the North East, with indulging in conversion with a political motive and taking the help of militants, reports PTI. “Some churches in the country and the North East were busy in conversion after being politically motivated which was a kind of violence and terror’, Sudarshan told mammoth rally of RSS workers at the Netaji School in Maligaon here. Referring to NE states and Tripura in particular, the RSS leader said it was indeed a matter of great concern that militant outfits, including...