GUWAHATI, May 16? A bitter rivalry is slowly developing between the ULFA and the NSCN (IM) following the recent killing of an ULFA cadre at the hands of the NSCN(IM) in Nagaland. And at a time when the North-east is passing through violence and ethnic unrest, this certainly bodes ill for the future.
Revealing this, intelligence sources said the ULFA which has for long been a close ally of the NSCN (K), a sworn enemy of the NSCN(IM), used to maintain a distance with the NSCN (IM), without never really coming into a direct confrontation so far. Similarly, the NSCN (IM) too normally refrained from attacking camps of the NSCN (K) which sometimes sheltered ULFA cadres.
But since the NSCN (IM) killed an ULFA militant named Sushanta in Mon district on April 30 an looted arms an ammunition from him, there has been a perceptible change in the ULFA?s stand against the NSCN (IM). So much so that there is every possibility of the outfit launching attacks on NSCN (IM) camps, the sources claimed and added that the NSCN (K) too has been pressurising and inciting the ULFA to adopt a hard stand against the NSCN (IM).