ULFA rejects CM?s amnesty offer

GUWAHATI, Dec 24 ?The banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) today virtually rejected the general amnesty offered by the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for those ultras who are willing to give up arms. In a statement e-mailed to this newspaper office this evening, the banned outfit came down heavily on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for giving call to the members of the outfit to surrender in the wake of the military offensive launched by the Bhutanese Army. The ULFA criticised the Chief Minister for showing the ?audacity? to give the call to surrender at a time when ?barbaric Bhutanese? Army had failed to hand over the bodies of the militants killed by them during the on-going offensive. The outfit warned Tarun Gogoi and his West Bengal counterpart Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee against considering the ULFA, NDFB and KLO as a ?groups of some misguided youths?. The ULFA stated that the Assamese, Bodo and Kamatapuri people were left with no other option but to launch a united intensive struggle for protection of their rights against ?Indian rulers?.