Politics / Assam

SHILLONG, Dec 4 ? Fresh ethnic violence between the Karbi and Kuki in Assam?s Karbi Anglong district has halted the process of rehabilitation of over 4000 displaced Khasi-Pnar people now staying in camps in Meghalaya?s Jaintia hills for the last three weeks following threats of militants there, reports PTI.

?Since there is a problem going on, they (displaced Khasi-Pnars) want to be here (in Meghalaya) for some more time,? Deputy Commissioner of Jaintia Hills district L Kharkongor told PTI here over phone adding only 34 people have so far returned to their villages in Block-I and Block-II...

GUWAHATI, Dec 4 ? Five additional companies of Army have moved into the troubled torn district of Karbi Anglong to help the district administration to bring the situation under control following a series of clashes between the Karbi and Kuki communities. The Karbi Anglong Deputy Commissioner A Goel told The Assam Tribune this evening that with the arrival of the additional force, the total number of Army companies in the district has increased to eight and the new companies would start operating in the disturbed areas of the district shortly.

The Deputy Commissioner said that the security...

GUWAHATI, Dec 3: Notwithstanding deployment of additional forces, marauding Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) militants gunned down three more innocent Karbi villagers besides setting fire to about 30 houses at Mansing Teron village under Manja Police outpost about 18 kilometres away from Diphu in Karbi Anglong last night.

Police sources informed that a large group of KRA ultras raided the remote village at around 8 p.m. last night and opened indiscriminate fire from sophisticated weapons killing three Karbi persons including a 12-year-old boy and a woman and injured one.

The deceased were...

GUWAHATI, Dec 3 ? The Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections, bagging 27 of the total 57 wards for which polling was held last Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 13 wards while the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) secured 12. Independents won three wards while the NCP and the TGP got one each. Recounting was under way for one of the wards (No 12) where the AGP has emerged victorious on the first count.

It was a day of smiles, victory marches, sloganeering, disappointment and despondency for the contesting candidates who thronged...

GUWAHATI, Dec 3 ? The ruling Congress virtually swept the civic polls Assam by capturing power in 34 Municipal bodies out of 55 where elections were held on December 1. The main opposition party Assom Gana Parishad (AGP) managed to win majority in only six civic bodies, while the BJP gained majority in seven. The overall winning percentage of the Congress is 53.32 and that of the AGP is 20.12 and BJP 14.99 in the civic bodies excluding the Guwahati Municipal Corporation.

The election results proved that the Congress managed to retain the hold it had gained in the last assembly polls while...

Nagaon, Dec. 2: The Karbi Anglong and N.C. Hills People?s Resistance (KNPR), the armed wing of the anti-talks faction of the United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), today threatened to purge the district of all Kukis. Declaring open war against the Kuki outfit, the UPDS said its operation would end only after the last Kuki village was uprooted from the twin districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hiils. The UPDS claimed that Kukis had migrated to the two districts from neighbouring Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.

The outfit?s warning came even as suspected UPDS militants torched five...

GUWAHATI, Dec 2: The Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), which became the first militant outfit of Assam to successfully complete peace negotiations with the State and Central Governments to sign an accord, will be disbanded formally on December 6, bringing an end to an era of violence in the Bodo dominated areas of the State. Giving a detailed account of the history of the BLT, the vice chairman of the outfit Chandan Brahma alias Kamal Mushahary told The Assam Tribune that after the failure of the Bodo accord signed between the State and the Central Government and the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU)...

GUWAHATI, Dec 2: With barely three days left for constitution of the interim Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), the Assam government has come out with an announcement that general amnesty will be granted to former militants of Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT). Talking to newsmen at Janata Bhawan today, Gogoi informed that in response to the BLT?s demand for withdrawal of cases pending against its leaders and cadres to facilitate setting up of the BTC, State government has decided to grant general amnesty to the former ultras. However, he pointed out that individual criminal cases pending against...

GUWAHATI, Dec 2: Even as the ULFA has found for itself a new foothold to inch its way back to the popularity charts by targeting the Bihari community in the State, there is increasing evidence that it is forging close links with the Nepalese Maoist rebels and setting up bases in the Himalayan kingdom. Security sources said here that the ULFA and the Maoists have recently agreed to have the Assam rebel outfit operate three new bases in Nepal. In fact, there are also reports that the ULFA have been already operating a few camps there since much earlier. The two rebel groups have also agreed to...

Dec. 1: Strife-torn Karbi Anglong witnessed more bloodshed today with militants suspected to be from the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) gunning down four Karbi villagers while they were praying in a church and torched 48 houses in Bokajan subdivision of the district. In Dibrugarh district, miscreants last night set ablaze nine shops belonging to members of the Bihari community.

The KRA struck in Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district for the second time in three days. The militant group killed six Karbis and torched nearly 116 houses in a pre-dawn swoop on Saturday.

The assailants...