Insurgency / Tripura

Agartala, Dec. 25: The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has driven out 72 tribal families from their homes in remote areas under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) for failing to pay ?tax? to the outfit. The families, belonging to the backward Noatia community, were displaced from their ancestral homes in remote Khagendra Roaja Para and Shikaribari villages under Kamalpur subdivision as they pleaded their inability to pay ?tax? at the rate of Rs 200 per month per family.

Police sources said on December 14 night 20 militants swooped down on the village and...

Agartala, Dec. 22: In a new twist to the insurgency equations in Tripura, two outfits have taken on the most powerful faction. This is likely to trigger fresh factional clashes in interior areas. The Nayanbasi faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All Tripura Tiger Force have decided to gang up against the official group of the NLFT led by Biswamohan Debbarma.

Already the two outfits have launched joint operations against the NLFT group led by Biswamohan Debbarma in remote areas of trouble-torn Takarjala police station.

Official agencies keeping tabs on militant...

AGARTALA, Dec 17? Following the fall of the central headquarters of the banned insurgents outfit All Tripura Tiger Force at Satcherri in Bangladesh, tribal guerrillas belonging to this faction are now on the run. Intelligence services confirmed that a large detachment of about 43 Tiger militants who escaped the rival NLFT attack last week at Satcherri entered Indian territory in West Tripura district on Friday.

The NLFT militants had pulled off an all-out attack on the well-fortified CHQ of the ATTF on last December 6 midnight and shot dead eight Tigers. One NLFT militant was also killed in...

Agartala, Dec. 9: Dissension within the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has intensified with a section of militants beginning to give vent to their frustration by targeting their leaders. A 24-member group shot dead as many as 12 NLFT commanders at Jupui in the Sajek range of Bangladesh?s Chittagong Hill Tracts on November 21 and sneaked into South Tripura.

Two of the militants, identified as Sanjib Reang and Jibon Reang, surrendered at Belonia police station last month.

They deposited an AK-47 rifle, an M-16 assault rifle, a 9mm pistol and a huge quantity of ammunition.

The...

AGARTALA, Dec 3 ? Tripura government has decided to issue red corner notice through the Interpol to detain five top ranking insurgents of two banned outfits of the state believed to be sheltering in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand, reports PTI. Director General of Police (DGP) G M Srivastav told newsmen today that efforts are on to issue red corner notice through the Interpol for five more insurgents of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) believed to have taken shelter in the three countries.

He, however, refused to divulge the name of the...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? As many as six North East militant outfits based in Manipur and Tripura has recently approached the Mizoram Chief Minister, Sri Zoramthanga to act as the catalyst in facilitating talks with the Central Government. The Minister for Information and Publicity of Mizoram, F Malsawma informed The Assam Tribune that these militant outfits, all hardcore groups including the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) had shown interest in sitting for talks with the Government of India and approached Sri Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front rebel, to facilitate the same.

Sri...

AGARTALA, June 10 ? Growing influence of Islamic outfits on National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan), which maintains base camps in Bangladesh, has resulted in discontent among the staunch Christian leaders and lower rung armed cadres of the militant organization. The organization, which is dominated by Baptist Christian militants and till recently used to carry out conversion of Tripura tribals to Christianity at gun-point allegedly at the instance of some missionary organizations, is now playing second fiddle to radical Muslim outfits in Bangladesh.

According to intelligence...

Silchar, June 6: Bru refugees displaced from Mizoram after ethnic riots and settled in relief camps in North Tripura since November 1997, have demanded the Centre?s intervention to resolve their repatriation problem.

Bruno Msha, president of the Mizoram Bru Refugee Committee, said here recently that it was high time the Centre intervened to resolve the impasse. He said more than 3,600 refugees have died of various diseases in the camps in the past six years.

He regretted that since the last round of talks between the Bru refugee leaders and the Mizoram government in 2001, no major initiative...

AGARTALA, June 6 ? Following his the footsteps of the outlawed All Tripura Tribal Force (ATTF), the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) recently changed its name to ?Plungers and Rangers? to avoid police action, CRPF IG, Tripura, Sukhjinder Singh said Thursday, reports PTI.

?We have definite information that both two banned insurgent outfits ATTF and NLFT have changed their names,? Singh said. The ATTF, the armed wing of the Tripura People?s Democratic Front (TPDF), in a press statement recently stated that it had changed its name to Revolutionary People?s Army (RPA) in the...

AGARTALA, June 5 ? In the largest-ever surrender ceremony in the recent past 71 militants belonging to prescribed NLFT (Biswamohan group) and Borok National Council of Tripura, a fringe outfit, laid down arms before the IG CRPF Sukhjinder Singh Thursday. Thirty militants out of total 71 were hardcore extremists belonging to NLFT. Others from the BNCT used to work as local collaborators of the NLFT under the banner of BNCT. As many as 74 militants had earlier come overground at the initiatives of the CRPF battalions deployed in the state during the last three months on separate occasions. But...