Insurgency / Tripura

AGARTALA, Jan 28 ? Amid the security alert sounded through out the State following the massacre of 11 villagers by the insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) at Mandai Chowmahani village in West Tripura district on Sunday, a massive search operation is on in the area, reports PTI.

Police said the SP (West), Anurag Dhyankar is camping in the area following the brutal killing in which eleven people, including five women and children, were killed. Police said two persons were interrogated yesterday and one Sushil Debbarma was arrested today in connection with the...

Jirania (West Tripura), Jan. 27: Young Kanu Roy and his bride Mayarani had managed to escape death in the infamous Mandai massacre on June 8, 1980. But bullets separated them last night when a volley of gunfire felled Kanu.

In terror-stricken Mistripara village, where rebels gunned down 11 and injured several others on a night of mayhem, the only sign of life was the wail of people who had lost their near and dear ones.

Settled on government land in Mistripara area under Bankimnagar gaon panchayat under a special rehabilitation scheme, Kanu took to pulling rickshaws for a living and had...

Agartala, Jan. 27: Blood stained Tripura?s run-up to the Assembly elections with suspected militants killing 11 supporters of the ruling CPM and their family members after picking them out from a non-tribal area. The massacre occurred last night in West Tripura?s Bankim Nagar, 30 km from Agartala, despite security alerts about possible militant strikes on or before Republic Day.

The CPM had also appealed to the Election Commission last week to step up security arrangements in Tripura in the wake of attacks on party workers.

The commission today asked the states, including Tripura, Nagaland...

JIRANIA, Jan 27 ? Suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) (Biswamohan) militants massacred 11 non-tribals including women and children at Mandai Choumuhani, Jirania, in West Tripura district on the night of Republic Day celebration. Six more were injured in the attack and three of them are in serious condition, doctors said. All the deceased and injured were CPI(M) supporters. The area where the attack was committed is about 32 kms from capital Agartala and only about 6 kms from infamous Mandai where the 1980 June riots had taken place to mark the beginning of protracted...

AGARTALA, Jan 23 ? The Election Commission has removed the IGP (Law and order) TK Sanyal from his present posting following allegation from the opposition parties in the State. The Opposition parties Congress, its ally INPT and other political parties alleged that Sanyal was working at the instance of the ruling Left Front, and he might use the police and other armed force under his charge TSR, against the Opposition party workers. They had also submitted a memorandum demanding his removal when CEC JM Lyngdoh visit the State on January 16 last. He was recently brought to the post in place of...

Agartala, Jan. 22: The powerful but rival militant outfits, the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All-Tripura Tiger Force, have made their stands clear ahead of the Assembly polls in the state in February.

The NLFT has already revealed its animosity towards the ruling Left Front, systematically killing tribal leaders and workers of the CPM. Sources said the killings are part of its programme to help the outfit?s alleged political front, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura, garner tribal votes through intimidation.

Its bitter rival, the Tiger Force, has asked the people to...

Agartala, Jan. 14: Militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura on Sunday raped and murdered a 20-year-old in Dhalai district, police said today. Last month, 13-year-old Mangalaxmi Debbarma was raped before being strangled in the Brajendranagar area under Jirania police station.

Sources said NLFT militants armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the house of Manna Kumar Tripura in the remote Jamircherra area in Dhalai.

They beat up family members with their rifles before abducting Premlata, the 20-year-old daughter.

Sources said the rebels set the body of Premlata on fire after...

Agartala, Jan. 10: The latest round of Naga talks in New Delhi has already led to demands for similar parleys with outfits in Tripura, but these are mostly from poll-bound political parties rather than the militants themselves. While the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) has blamed the ruling Left Front for lacking a will to end insurgency, the party in power said there was little it could do, given the fact that the banned outfits had spurned past offers.

The Opposition INPT, which reportedly has links with the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), has demanded...

Calcutta, Jan. 4: Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar today said the border areas of Tripura have become a terror hub because of the neglect of the northeastern state’s natural resources and the lack of development projects initiated by the Centre. Sarkar said the biggest worry has been the emergence of al Qaida in the Northeast with the support from the NSCN (Khaplang), the Ulfa and other militant groups. “They are using the Northeast as a base to work their way into the heart of the country, using local militant groups as pawns,” he said.

Sarkar asked Bangladesh to hand over “terrorists”...

Agartala, Dec. 28: Militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have warned Jamatya tribals of serious consequences if they do not pay taxes this year. They have also threatened to attack non-tribal settlements located close to the Jamatya-inhabited areas.

The militants had failed to extort any “tax” from the Hindu Jamatyas over the past two years in the face of organised resistance by Jamatya Hoda, the supreme community council. The Jamatyas had launched a resistance programme against the NLFT militants and their conversion drive in early 2000 under the leadership of the then...