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Guwahati, Nov 20 : At least 11 persons, most of them belonging to political parties, have been killed in Assam’s Kokrajhar district this month, the latest being 15-year-old student Nirmal Basumatary, who was gunned down inside his house at Latamari village under Kachugaon police station on Wednesday.

While the police have not been able to identify or arrest any of the assailants, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said there is a shortage of manpower in the district police to tackle the situation.

Most of the victims belonged to the Bodoland People’s Progressive Front (BPPF), a regional party, with BPPF president Rabiram Narzary accusing the Bodo People’s Front (BPF), a Congress ally in the state government, of the killings.

The BPF headed by Hagrama Mohilary, a former militant leader and chief of the dissolved Bodoland Liberation Tigers (BLT), is in power in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) which has jurisdiction over the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baska and

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Udalguri. “Members and supporters of our party have been systematically

targeted by armed assailants in the past two years. This month has been particularly bad with so many persons killed,” said Narzary.

After BPPF member Bhakta Bahadur Sharma was gunned down on November 8, ten people have been killed and 15 others seriously injured in the series of attacks that have rocked Kokrajhar. The victims also include a few members of the ceasefire faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

However. BPF president Hagrama Mohilary dismissed Narzary’s charges as baseless.

“I think the BPPF has a hand in these killings,” he said. The BPF had staged a dharna in front of the state secretariat here last week demanding an end to the violence, with the BPPF and other opposition parties claiming that the Congress and the BPF had only admitted their own failure. “Mohilary’s dharna in Dispur only confirms that his party and its partner, the Congress, had failed to contain violence and control the situation,” said Narzary.

Two senior ministers of the state government, Pramila Rani Brahma and Chandan Brahma, had also taken part in the dharna.

Meanwhile, a series of bandhs called to protest the killings have crippled normal life in Kokrajhar. As many as five bandhs were staged by different organisations in the district since November 11. Security forces have also gunned down at least six persons, suspected to be members of the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) this month.

3:20 AM
Categories: NDFB. Author: Sinlung

Imphal, November 30 : The United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) has expressed strongly condemnation to the brutal and merciless murder of Benjamin Thangbem son of Ngampao of Khengjoy village by the cadres of Kuki National Army (KNA) on November, 2009 at Tuibong in Churachandpur district.

The condemnation note signed by Mathew Thadou, secretary Information and Publicity (UKLF) dispatched yesterday claimed that Benjamin was a cadre of UKLK who joint the outfit and served under Kuki Army no.206 but discharged on medical ground in 2003 as he became mentally challenged.

"It is against conventional practice and the spirit of true revolutionary movement to exterminate ex-cadres of any revolutionary organization," UKLF stated.

The "barbaric" act of the KNA which was meted in the past many occasions too has contradicted its own claim to fight for an independent Kuki nation.

Their hands are stained with the blood of their own people rendering hundreds and thousands as widows and orphan, the press handout alleged.

UKLF is always against any form of bloodshed and fratricide among own community or tribe which is against the principal of "Re-unification"- unification of all Kuki tribes, it added.

Recalling the agreement sign between UKLF and KNA in the aftermath of merciless killing of two UKLF cadres by KNA cadres in May 11, 2009 at Gunjil in Chandel district, on June 25 of the same year under the chair of the DIG, AR sector, Pallel, the statement recalled that in the event it was also resolved that no group of KNA and UKLF will fire on the other group deliberately or accidentally under any circumstances with immediate effect.

But, KNA has violated the MoU by killing mercilessly the mentally retarded Benjamin Thangbem, an ex-cadre of the outfit alleged the statement urging the concern authority to take immediate action against the violators, KNA, as the ground rules does not permit them to do so.

"The barbaric act of KNA upon its own community frequently is term as an "Anti social organization of the Kuki", the Zelengam movement of KNA is to kill and tortured its own communities," UKLF put down giving alert to all the Kuki communities from KNA who think themselves that they were nation workers.

Whether the president of KNO, PS Sojang who is at present camping at Tuibong area is for killing and torture to its own people, the statement went on to say stating that UKLF will also compel to react and repay KNA in the same coin if it does not desist from the path it is treading along.

The statement finally expressed shared to the pain and grief of the family of Benjamin, friends, relatives and dear ones.

2:41 AM
Categories: KNA, UKLF. Author: Sinlung

Imphal, November 30 : The KLO/KLA has iterated that it was not involved in the murder of former Thayong village chief Reyamkhup Kom.

Speaking to media persons today, the outfit's commander in chief Timothy said that all KLO/KLA officers and cadres have been putting stay at their designated camp.

Though Thayong was under the operational area of the party, it has shifted its operational area to Saikul for the time being.

Refuting the claim of Reyamkhup's wife Thangnei Kom that one younger brother of KLA's late leader Lulun was involved in the murder as baseless, Timothy claimed that Lulun's younger brother is currently undertaking a computer engineering course at Delhi.

Moreover, Lulun's brother cannot be related to the party just because Lulun was once a leader of the party, Timothy asserted.

Taking the name of KLO/KLA in the murder was an attempt to tarnish the image of the party, the commander in chief said while pledging that the party would investigate into the murder and punish the murderers.

Reacting to the Komrem Union's allegation of deduction of certain percentage from NREGS wages and levying other forms of 'taxes', the KLO/KLA demanded that the Komrem Union should spell out the names of the outfits collecting money.

People would be knowing which outfit was operating in Thayong area, it said whole condoling the bereaved family.

Taking part in the press meet, KLO/KLA chief finance officer William Kuki said that the party has learnt of Haokothang alias Dr Pu, Jangkhohou alias Arjun Kuki, Sonkhothang Kuki, Thangmilen alias Tiger Kuki and Hemkholen alias Danial Kuki collecting money from people in Imphal area in the name of the outfit without knowledge of the party.

All five of them should confess their anti-party activities before December 5, William Kuki said.

1:37 AM
Categories: KLA, KLO. Author: Sinlung

Nagaon, Nov. 28 : The Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front today declared a total ceasefire for three months beginning December 1 in the “greater interest of peace, progress and development of the hill district”.

The KLNLF’s self-styled publicity secretary Rejek Dera today told this correspondent that they were eager for a permanent political solution to the problems of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills and were optimistic that the government would spare no effort towards realising this goal. “Our total ceasefire is basically to express our sincerity. It is not our concern whether the government considers this (our ceasefire) seriously or not,” Dera said.

This is for the second time the Karbi outfit has declared a ceasefire. It had called a ceasefire for 60 days from January 1 and later extended it for another 15 days.

In August, the KLNLF announced that it would strike at members of the Hindi-speaking community living within its area of influence.

It threatened to target government property, blaming Dispur and Delhi for their alleged inaction to stop anti-insurgency operations and failure to respond to its ceasefire.

Last month, the outfit withdrew the threat, saying it would not launch any operation and would wait for the government’s initiative for a political dialogue.

“This is our total ceasefire and we hope our issue will be taken up within these three months,” Dera said.

The KLNLF said the outfit was ready to abide by the ground rules as and when a formal ceasefire was sealed with the government.

“We are ready to deposit weapons too if we see any ray of hope,” he said.

“Now everybody wants peace in Karbi Anglong and we are no different. We launched an armed struggle to get the decade-long demands of the deprived people of the hill district fulfilled. If the government assures us of fruitful solution to our problems, we will have no reason to oppose their pre-conditions,” he said.

The KLNLF demands a separate homeland for the Karbis (Hemprek Kanthim) comprising entire Karbi Anglong and parts of NC Hills districts.

4:19 AM
Categories: karbi anglong. Author: Sinlung

DIPHU, Nov 28 – Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) has declared unilateral cease-fire for a period of three months beginning December 1, R Dera, publicity secretary of the organisation, said. Informing this over phone, Dera said, “during this period we expect co-operation from the government, NGOs, civil societies and different organiations to fulfil the long-standing demand of the people of Karbi Anglong”.

The KLNLF, fighting for a separate political entity under Article 244(A), wants a firm government assurance before facilitating talks withthe government, he said.

4:18 AM
Categories: KLNLF. Author: Sinlung

Police claim he headed ACMF, a little-known militant outfit operating in lower Assam

In a breakthrough in the case relating to the bomb blast in Alipurduar in Jalpaiguri district that killed two persons and left many injured on March 17, 2009, the police have arrested a militant who is allegedly a leader of Adivasi Cobra Militant Force (ACMF) that operates in lower Assam, especially in Kokrajhar district. Amit Hembram was picked up from Kokrajhar district by the state police, who were aided by their counterparts in Assam.

No militant outfit had so far claimed responsibility for the blast that was triggered by a powerful bomb fitted in a bicycle parked in front of the municipal super market entrance in the heart of Siliguri.

The police were said to have believed it was the handiwork of the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) and were carrying out the investigation on similar lines.

“Dhananjai, the second in command in the KLO, was brought to Jalpaiguri from Assam on a transit remand as we were carrying out the investigation focusing on the KLO militants. He was arrested a month ago in Assam. However, he denied any involvement with the blast,” said Jalpaiguri SP Anand Kumar.

A senior officer of the district police said, “We nabbed three KLO militants from the Bengal side of the Assam-Bengal border. But, during the interrogation, all of them denied any responsibility for the blast. Dhananjai was caught by the Assam Police after he was shot at in a crossfire in the Kokrajhar district. After getting his custody, we interrogated him as well, but to no avail.”

“After we got a tip-off from the state intelligence agencies about a terrorist outfit operating in lower Assam that could be involved in the blast, we changed the focus of our investigation. We got in regular touch with the Assam Police and CID and learnt about the ACMF operating in north Bengal,” said the official.

The ACMF was formed in the later half of the 1990s with the purported objective of protecting the Adivasi (tribal) people of lower Assam through an armed struggle. Its commander Durga Minz leads the outfit. The other senior members are Xabrias Khakha and Kandu Murmu. The outfit has an estimated strength of 100. Initially formed in the Kokrajhar district, it later spread its activities to the Bongaigaon and Dhubri districts. Since then, it is said to have indulged in sporadic acts of killings and extortion in the area, primarily targeting the tea gardens in the three districts.

“Amit was arrested with carbines and several other sophisticated firearms and ammunition. He used to run his activities on the Bengal side of the Assam-Bengal border, which is already known to be home to active cadres of ULFA, KLO and other militant outfits of Assam,” the SP said.

Amit is said to have told the police during the interrogation that the outfit led by him used to extort money from both sides of the Assam-Bengal border. The motive of the explosion was to create a fear psychosis in the bordering areas for running the extortion business without any hindrance, said Kumar.

4:16 AM
Categories: assam. Author: Sinlung

Newly opened designated camp of KNF cadres

The designated camp opened today was among the total of 22 camps to be set up in five locations as per the tripartite agreement signed between Central and state government on one side and KNO and UPF representing 19 different Kuki undergrounds on the other side in August 22 2008 .

Manipur government earmarked Rs.4,43,03,950 for the construction of designated camps for the Kuki militant outfits under the Suspension of Operation, SoO since the early part of the implementation of the ground of the agreement.

Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) has so far approved 2000 cadres of the outfits in the first phase and out of this, 188 are cadres of the KNF, defense secretary of the outfit Lalla said.

The approved number is out of 377 cadres which the outfit listed.

Cadres of the outfit will be lodged in three designated camps.

The other two camps located at Kotlien along the NH-53 and at Maphou Dam.

The designated camp opened today will have a hospital, church, canteen, guest house, five barracks, a play ground and an armoury.

95% of the construction works of the designated opened today completed.

Speaking on the occasion, Brigadier Anil Chauhan informed the gathering that the period of SoO has been extended for another one year upto August 2010.Cadres of the KNF will lodge at the designated camp and strictly abide by the ground rules of the SoO.

Security forces have not targeted cadres of the outfits maintaining ceasefire under SoO.

If cadres informed to the security post commanders on their movement any misunderstanding will not happen, he added.

The state government and the Centre had signed an agreement for stopping counterinsurgency operations against Kuki militants in the state (suspension of operations) on August 22, 2008.The agreement was signed separately with KNO and UPF represented 11 and eight Kuki militant outfits respectively.

After several rounds of meeting of the JMG constituted by the representatives of the Manipur government, Centre and officials of the KNO and UPF, joint survey for the site selection for opening the designated camps and construction of the designated camps commenced from November last year.

12:27 AM
Categories: KNF, Kuki National Front, SoO. Author: Sinlung