Insurgency / Tripura

AGARTALA, May 17? Insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have shot dead a woman leader of ruling CPI-M after branding her as a witch at Ramchandragha village of West Tripura district, police said Friday, reports PTI. Police said a group of armed NLFT ultras raided the village last night and stormed the house of one Dewan Debbarma and dragged his wife Madhumala Debbarma out of the hut, police said. The ultras blamed that she was a witch and responsible for spread of diseases in the village and shot the woman dead before fleeing the spot, police said adding they...

AGARTALA, May 20 ?The Border Security Force stumbled onto an important clue in regards to Tripura militants? financial transaction network spreading in the entire North East region. Clues regarding the fund transactions among the NE militant outfits through various channels were found when a posse of BSF patrol rounded up a militant belonging to the NLFT Nayanbashi faction and recovered more than Rs 1 lakh from his possession. A senior BSF officer here Sunday said Samresh Debbarma alias ?Gada? of Thunta-Samtal, Padmabil near Hatkata under Khowai police station in West District, was apprehended...

AGARTALA, May 9 ? The mystery surrounding the abduction of Tripura Tribal Area Autonomuos District Council Executive Member Sridam Debbarma has taken a new turn as an eye witness said the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura leader had gone to meet the militants on his own. The eye-witness in a deposition before a first class magistrate, said that on May 3 Debbarma held one hour-long talks with three outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants-two among them armed with AK 47 and one overground collaborator at the residence of his relative Niranjan Debbarma, at...

AGARTALA, May 8 ? Arrested Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) leader Mebar Kumar Jamatia, has confessed that he and kidnapped assistant general secretary of the party, Sridam Debbarma, went to a West Tripura village for a secret meeting with the banned Nationalist Liberation Front of Tripura on Friday, reports PTI. Jamatia said during interrogation that he was released by the NLFT the same day, but the insurgents took away Debbarma, police sources said on Tuesday. Jamati is in police remand for five days in connection with the kidnap of Debbarma, also an executive member of...

AGARTALA, May 6? Police have arrested Mebar Kumar Jamatia, a leader of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), in connection with the reported kidnap of assistant general secretary of the party, Sridam Debbarma, police sources said here Monday, reports PTI. Jamatia was remanded to five days police custody for investigation into the reported kidnap of Debbarma, also an executive member of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) from Gurudayal Para in West Tripura district. Jamatia accompanied Debbarma when they went to Gurudayal Para on Friday last, police said adding...

AGARTALA, May 5 ? The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) on Saturday claimed the organisation?s assistant general secretary Sridam Debbarma has been kidnapped by armed ultras from Gurudayalpara in West Tripura district on Friday but though the police were yet to confirm the incident, they launched a search operation, reports PTI. Superintendent of Police (Operations) Dhurjoti Gautam said police launched a search operation to trace Debbarma, also the executive member of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), after his personal guard informed the police that he...

AGARTALA, May 2 ? Thirtyfour surrendered insurgents of Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA) are on an indefinite relay hunger strike demanding immediate rehabilitation. The insurgents led by TRA chief Dhananjo Reang resorted to the indefinite hunger strike at their official quarter?s at Kunjaban near the State capital since Tuesday last, police said. The TRA chief said their demands include government job, financial assistance and withdrawal of cases pending against them and other rehabilitation measures. About 111 TRA insurgents had surrendered unconditionally before the then State Home Minister...

AGARTALA, April 30 ? The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), an outfit of Mizoram has scaled down their demand for autonomous district council to the regional council to facilitate signing of a peace accord with the Mizoram government. The president of the BNLF Thang Masha in a memorandum to Mizoram government recently said for an early solution of problems through a peace accord it has scaled down the demand to regional council for the Bru community which can be formed in the western part of the Mamit district. Masha has put forward 12 point charter of demands to the State government...

AGARTALA, April 27? What makes the National Liberation Front of Tripura, the banned outfit, different from other militant organisations? Well, dubious it may sound, but fact is that it is the NLFT militant?s shameless, selective and sustained attack on women that turned the tribal outfit into a brute force. And most of the women raped, killed and kidnapped by the tribal insurgents of Tripura belong to their own community only. In a renewed violence from January 1 to till date, 38 persons were killed by the militants and most of them are directly or indirectly ruling party supporters. But what...

AGARTALA, April 26 ? Five militants ? four belonging to banned ATTF and one of Nayanbashi faction of NLFT formally surrendered before the Assam Rifles yesterday. The ATTF militants disillusioned and fed up with bloodshed, fled from their Satcheri camp and surrendered. The formal surrender today took place at Abhicharan under Sidhai police station where the militants laid down arms before the 11 battalion Assam Rifles commanding officer Col. Amit Sharma. The militants ? Nagendra Debbarma, Parasuram Debbarma, Rajin Debbarma and Ranjit Debbarma (all ATTF) and Mangal Debbarma (NLFT-Nayanbashi)...