Insurgency / Tripura

AGARTALA, Dec 17 — The hands which were once used to fire automatic Kalashnikovs, will now drive sleek cars, or curve out furniture from timbers. People who once feared the gun-totting militants, will now find them of great help. The first batch of the 74 surrendered militants who had left their underground organisations and joined one year vocational training at the Love Story Bazar Rehabilitation Centre in South Tripura district, completed their training on December 16 last. The vocations they have been trained in included electronics, tailoring, carpentry, electrical wiring, driving, motor...

Guwahati, Dec. 16: Christian missionaries in the Northeast have once again come under severe criticism from a Sangh outfit. The nascent North East India Janajati Faith and Culture Protection Forum, a front organisation of the Sangh Parivar, today accused the Church of having a nexus with insurgent outfits.

Forum president B.B. Jamatia at a press conference here today justified its claim, saying the missionary-run schools were functioning normally in the insurgency-affected areas where even government schools were unable to function.

He was specifically referring to the threat to non...

AGARTALA, July 8 ? The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan group) has put forward pre-conditions for peace talks with the State government. The outfit said that it favoured a political solution to the militancy problem of the State but the ??dialogue should be on the question of sovereignty and independence of Twipra kingdom?. This if for the first time that the NLFT has come out with a specific and clear stand on the State government?s offer for peace negotiation. The NLFT in its recently published mouthpeice Yok said: ?The Government of India has always insisted that it...

AGARTALA, July 2 ? A tribal housewife was killed by insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), police Tuesday. Police said a group of armed NLFT ultras raided Ramkrishna Para village in West Tripura district last night and stormed the house of one Santosh Debbarma. As the houseowner was not present, the insurgents attacked his wife Khanjani Debbarma (24) with sharp weapons before fleeing from the area and she died on the spot, police added. A search operation has been launched in the area to nab the culprits, police said.

AGARTALA, June 23? Tripura Police stumbled into startling revelations of some prominent political leaders? involvement in the financial network of banned militant organisations. The disclosure has been made when police arrested a ?self-styled prime minister? of the proscribed NLFT Nayanbashi faction on Saturday afternoon. Acting on a specific information, West Agartala police station officers arrested Haridhan Debbarma alias David Borok from near Circuit House in the heart of the city. A former ?public relations officer? of undivided NLFT, Haridhan had surrendered with 13 militants on March 11...

AGARTALA, June 21 ? Reports of fierce infighting between the rival militant groups belonging to NLFT and ATTF are pouring in from Bangladesh. Both the militant outfits are at present holed up in the neighbouring country from where they cross over to Indian territory to carry out attacks. According to an unconfirmed report, recently the NLFT (Nayanbashi) faction pulled off a severe attack on an ATTF camp in Bangladesh. The NLFT (N) contingent led by one Thomas Debbarma shot dead seven ATTF militants and snatched away seven AK series rifles and one SLR. The attack was followed by yet another...

AIZAWL, June 8 ? The Mizoram Home Minister Tawnluia said that disagreements on few issues had cropped up during the talks between the State Government and the underground Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) and the date for signing a peace accord could not be fixed, reports PTI. ?The pending issues would be discussed when the two sides resume their talks,? Tawnluia informed the State Assembly. In a written reply to a query by J Lalthangliana of the Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC), Tawnluia said that the date for resumption of talks could not be fixed yet though the two sides had held talks...

AGARTALA, May 30 ? Four jawans of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) were killed and ten others injured in an ambush by insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) at Ghagracherra on the Assam-Agartala national highway in Dhalai district, police said today, reports PTI. The ultras ambushed a TSR vehicle when the jawans were returning to their camp at Gaydabari in North Tripura district after admitting a sick jawans at GB Hospital yesterday, the police said. The TSR jawans opened fire in retaliation when the insurgents showered bullets on the bus from an advantageous position on a...

AGARTALA, May 28 ? The Tripura government has planned a pro-active counter insurgency operation strategy against the underground outfits. The new anti-insurgency strategy was drawn in a series of high level meetings of the concerned police and security force officers with Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Monday last. The new strategy ? mostly in regards to deployment, reinforcement and strengthening of intelligence networks ? was felt necessary as there are reports of possibility of the large-scale intrusion of heavily armed militants belonging to both All Tripura Tiger Force and National...

AIZAWL, May 25 ? The fifth round of talks between Mizoram Government and underground Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) held here Thursday were inconclusive with both the parties agreeing to resume the dialogue in late August, reports PTI. State Chief Secretary and leader of the government delegation HV Lalringa told PTI the talks, which began at 11 in the morning and continued up to 4.15 pm, were held in a ?cordial atmosphere?. Wide-ranging issues were discussed during the talks, Lalringa said. However, he refused to divulge the details ?till formal agreement is reached?. The four-member...