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28 insurgents lay down arms in Arunachal

Updated on Friday, August 07, 2009, 21:57 IST Tags:28 insurgents, arms in Arunachal

Itanagar: In all 28 terrorists of various outfits with a large cache of arms and ammunition surrendered at the 19 Assam Rifles Battalion headquarters at Khonsa in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, according to official sources.


The surrenderees include ULFA (9), NSCN-IM (3), NSCNK (6), NSCN-U (2) and ANLA (8), 19 Assam Rifles Commandant Colonel Naveen told, adding they deposited Chinese Rifle (1), pistol (11), revolvers (6), hand grenade (6), IED (2) and large quantity of ammunition and explosives.

Brig Cherukapalli congratulated the surrendered cadres on their bold and wise decision to join the national mainstream.

He added that the return of large number of cadres of various outfits is an indicator that terrorists were fast losing ground and Army operations coupled with psychological initiatives were bearing dividends.

28 insurgents lay down arms in Arunachal

 

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28 insurgents lay down arms in Arunachal

Updated on Friday, August 07, 2009, 21:57 IST Tags:28 insurgents, arms in Arunachal

Itanagar: In all 28 terrorists of various outfits with a large cache of arms and ammunition surrendered at the 19 Assam Rifles Battalion headquarters at Khonsa in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, according to official sources.


The surrenderees include ULFA (9), NSCN-IM (3), NSCNK (6), NSCN-U (2) and ANLA (8), 19 Assam Rifles Commandant Colonel Naveen told, adding they deposited Chinese Rifle (1), pistol (11), revolvers (6), hand grenade (6), IED (2) and large quantity of ammunition and explosives.

Brig Cherukapalli congratulated the surrendered cadres on their bold and wise decision to join the national mainstream.

He added that the return of large number of cadres of various outfits is an indicator that terrorists were fast losing ground and Army operations coupled with psychological initiatives were bearing dividends.

28 insurgents lay down arms in Arunachal

 

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Seven IEDs found on outskirts of Guwahati
TNN 15 August 2009, 03:06am IST


GUWAHATI: In a major breakthrough on the eve of Independence Day, police and CRPF personnel discovered seven IEDs from an Ulfa shelter house on the outskirts of the city near the Meghalaya border.

"The IEDs were ready to be assembled and could have been set up and planted somewhere in the city on Friday night," a police officer said. "It was also possible that Ulfa planned to bring the explosives to the city," he added.

Information about the seven IEDs was given to police by Mintu Rabha, an Ulfa sympathizer, who was nabbed by city police on Thursday. Police said Rabha was engaged by Ulfa as an errand boy.

"He had bought batteries used in IEDs a few weeks ago and taken them to the shelter house. He used to communicate with just one man, whose identity is not known. However, Rabha said he had seen two persons in the house but did not talk with them," a senior police official said.

Police said the IEDs were traced to a hut inside a dense forest. The security team walked for three hours from the Guwahati-Shillong highway through the hilly terrain to reach the house.

"We are more alert now that as this the second recovery in the city outskirts," a police official said. Last week, a CRPF patrol team had recovered unassembled IED from a jungle close to the chief minister's residence atop the Koinadhara Hill near the Assam-Meghalaya inter-state border.
Seven IEDs found on outskirts of Guwahati - Guwahati - City - NEWS - The Times of India

 

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1,152 Assam villages vulnerable to militant sway
Sushanta Talukdar

The Chief Minister alleged that Left-wing extremist organisations were trying to influence Adivasis through the Adivasi Cobra Militants of Assam and the Birsa Commando Force

The Assam government has identified 1,152 underdeveloped remote villages in 20 districts as breeding grounds of militants. It has decided to pay special attention to the development and creation of employment opportunities for youth to prevent them from joining militant outfits. These villages, in riverine or remote areas along the inter-State and international borders of the State, and are without roads, water supply and electricity.

Feeling of neglect
“There is a feeling of neglect and alienation among the youth of these villages,” Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said at Monday’s the conference of Chief Ministers held in Delhi. He requested the Centre to help the State implement the development plan. Mr. Gogoi stressed the need to ameliorate the perceived feeling of neglect and alienation among the Adivasi, Nepali and tribal communities to prevent Left-wing extremist organisations from making inroads. The Chief Minister alleged that Left-wing extremist organisations were trying to influence Adivasis through the Adivasi Cobra Militants of Assam (ACMA) and the Birsa Commando Force (BCF), which have been demanding Scheduled Tribe status for them, protection of the life and property of the community and employment for Adivasi youth. The two militant outfits have about 600 trained cadres and currently have a ceasefire agreement with the State government. “Reports of Maoists trying to make inroads into the Nepali-dominated areas along the India-Bhutan border have been received and my government is taking all required actions to prevent the move. However, we need to keep a close watch on the activities of the Maoist in the State.” Mr. Gogoi requested the Centre to review the rehabilitation scheme for surrendered militants to make it more attractive. He, however, claimed that militant groups in Assam had lost popular support. The Chief Minister said that along with the existing problem of ethnic insurgency, which graduated into terrorism, there was the danger of naxalism and fundamentalism raising their heads. “We must prepare for them now. Indeed, if immediate heed is not paid to these issues, all of us will have more trouble on our hands in the near future.”

1,152 Assam villages vulnerable to militant sway @ The Hindu

 

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Eight AK-66 rifles, ammunition found in Tripura

Updated on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 12:37 IST Tags:AK-66 rifles, Ammunition, Tripura

Agartala: A huge cache of arms and ammunition including eight AK-66 rifles were found hidden in Karangicherra, a tribal hamlet in West Tripura district, police said Wednesday.

Acting on a tip off, a joint team of Tripura police and BSF conducted a search operation in Karangicherra yesterday and found the AK-66 rifles, 23 magazines and many cartridges.


A group of outlawed All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) had hidden the arms and ammunition as it became difficult for them to enter the state by crossing the Indo-Bangla border due to erection of fencing, the sources said.

There are at least 10 base camps of two outlawed insurgent outfits -- ATTF and National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in Bangladesh, which has 856 km long border with Tripura.

Eight AK-66 rifles, ammunition found in Tripura

 

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5 suspected NDFB men arrested in Bangladesh

TNN 18 August 2009, 09:36pm IST

GUWAHATI: Five suspected NDFB militants were arrested and sent to jail in Khagrachhari district of Chittagong Hills Tract (CHT) in Bangladesh
bordering Tripura and Mizoram on Tuesday, reported a Bangladesh newspaper.

The five are Oadhish Narzary (35), Pabitra Goyari (25), Dhiren Khaklari (25), Jonatha Basumatary (35) and Pradep Narzary (30), the newspaper said.

Intelligence sources said they are yet to receive a formal communication from Bangladesh as it takes at least 24 hours for the formalities to be completed before the information is put through the diplomatic channel.

"It is not surprising for Indians militants getting caught in Bangladesh as we have been saying about their presence in Bangladesh for a long time now. Apart from Ulfa cadres and leaders, NDFB members, including Ranjan Daimary, are known to be based in Bangladesh," sources said.

The newspaper reported that Bangladesh army and police personnel detained the five Indians in the Noymail area of Dighinala Upazila of the district on Monday. All the five, who entered Bangladesh illegally, were produced at the additional chief judicial magistrate's court of the district that sent them to Khagrachhari District Jail. The court set September 6 for the next hearing, said the daily.

Quoting Dighinala police station sub-inspector Mohammad Rafique, it said, "They said they belonged to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland from Assam in India." Rafique also was quoted as saying that 25 cocktail bombs, four mobile phone sets, three dozen pencil batteries, one walkie-talkie set, a handsaw and Indian currency were found in their possession.

Dighinala police station OC Suvash Chandra Paul told the newspaper that all the five had entered Bangladesh through the border with Tripura. On Monday, chief minister Tarun Gogoi had said Bangladesh is being used as a hub by militants and fundamentalists forces during a meeting of chief ministers in New Delhi.

 

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NDFB militant shot dead by army

21:13 HRS IST
Kokrajhar (Assam), Aug 19 (PTI) A National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militant was today shot dead by the army in lower Assam's Kokrajhar district.

The ultra, identified as Nikhil Brahma, was shot dead at Taraibari village of the district, police sources said.

Six detonators and one Italian pistol among other materials were seized from the slain militant, they added.

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Three NDFB ultras, three linkmen arrested

19:3 HRS IST
Guwahati, Aug 19 (PTI) The army today arrested three suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) ultras and as many linkmen and busted a weapon factory in Assam's Sonitpur district.

Army sources said country made rifles and one pistol were seized from the three NDFB militants and the three linkmen, who were arrested at Sonajuli village near Pabhoi on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

The security forces also have busted a factory manufacturing country made weapons, they said.
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Page last updated at 12:30 GMT, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:30 UK

Indian anger over 'arrested' girl
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta



Hundreds of angry protesters have defied a curfew in the Indian state of Manipur, to demand the release of an 11-year-old girl held by troops.

Reports say that the girl was taken by security forces after they failed to find her father, suspected of links to separatist rebels.

The girl is reported to have some physical disabilities.

Troops were conducting a search operation in Imphal, the capital of the north-eastern state.

Salam Dewan, the father of the abducted girl, said his daughter should be returned immediately and he was ready to face questioning.



Imphal has been hit by protests against the security forces
"I am no rebel or insurgent, just a poor farmer. The government have no right to harass us like this just because we are poor," Mr Dewan said.

Manipur has seen security operations against separatist groups since 1980.

But there has been no statement from the security forces about this incident.

Hundreds of local people turned out in the streets of Imphal to demand the girl's unconditional release.

A group formed to demand the release of the child claimed that police had been demanding a bribe to release her.

"This is the limit of brutality and inhuman behaviour. How can men in uniform kidnap a minor girl just because they cannot find her father? " said Pholindro Konsam, convenor of the Apunba Lup, a group of militant Manipuri student and youth organisations.

"Salam was away, so the soldiers and policemen took away his disabled daughter and that has outraged the people of the locality," said Ningthoujam Memchatombi, convenor of the Joint Action Committee. "This is the ultimate in brutality. "

'Fake encounter'

The Apunba Lup has been leading a public campaign against suspected extra-judicial killings and illegal detention by security forces.



Photos of Chungkham Sanjit shortly before and after his death. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT


In pictures

It is also demanding the abolition of a special law giving sweeping powers to troops on counter-insurgency duty.

The government maintains the law is necessary to restore normalcy to the troubled state.

Apunba Lup began its campaign after the alleged killing of a local youth, Chungkham Sanjit, by the police commandos in Imphal recently.

Mr Sanjit was suspected of being a militant of a separatist group. Officials denied allegations of an extra-judicial killing.

But Indian weekly magazine Tehelka carried pictures Mr Sanjit being dragged into a shopping mall by security forces and his lifeless body being dragged back into a police vehicle.


BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian anger over 'arrested' girl

 

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3 wounded in Manipur grenade blast
TNN 21 August 2009, 09:53pm IST


IMPHAL: A group of unidentified men triggered a grenade blast outside a private hospital at Thangal Bazaar near the Assembly complex in the heart of Imphal on Friday morning leaving three persons, including a girl, wounded. The attack came barely five days after a grenade was planted in the same clinic.

The injured in Friday's blast were identified as Gudu Jain (8), a native of Rajasthan, Md Leihanmuddin (18) and Thokchom Tomba (45). Leihanmuddin suffered critical injuries and was admitted to a private hospital in Imphal.

Amid heightened security, police arrested a person, but refused to divulge his identity. According to sources, the blast could be the result of conflicts over monetary demands by rebel organizations.

Elsewhere in Thoubal, about 20 miscreants tried to torch a government office at Yairipok village on Thursday night. They stormed the sub-deputy collector's office around 9 pm, sprinkled oil all over but failed to set it ablaze thanks to prompt actions by home guards deployed nearby.

3 wounded in Manipur grenade blast - Guwahati - City - NEWS - The Times of India

 

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ULFA militants kidnap manager, engineer of cement firm

Williamnagar (Meghalaya), Aug 21 (PTI) Suspected ULFA militants today kidnapped the manager and the chief engineer of a cement company in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district.

Manager Shambhu Dhanuka, 55, and chief engineer P K Hore, 58, of Virgo Cement Company located at Damas along the boundary with Goalpara district in Assam were coming out of the factory in their car when around five militants accosted them and took them away at gunpoint in the same vehicle at around 5 pm, police sources said.

East Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner Vijay Kumar told PTI that senior police officials led by Superintendent of Police S Nongtynger have rushed to the spot.

The army and the CRPF were also on the job to trace the militants and the abducted persons.

Kumar said no ransom demand has been received so far

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Bodo activist shot dead in Kokrajhar

Guwahati, Aug 21 (PTI) A prominent activist of Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) outfit was today shot dead by unidentified assailants in Assam's Kokrajhar district, police said.

Sonen Basumatary was shot dead by unknown persons at a village under Kokrajhar police station.

Several political parties condemned the killing of Basumatary.

http://www.ptinews.com/news/241806_Bodo-activist-shot-dead-in-Kokrajhar

 

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Four ATTF insurgents surrender


Agartala, Aug 21 (PTI) Four insurgents of banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) have surrendered to security forces, police said today.

While two insurgents surrendered to BSF DIG at sector headquarters at Khasiamanagal in West Tripura district yesterday and deposited three sophisticated wireless sets and many live cartridges, two other ultras had surrendered to Assam Rifles at Simna camp in the district on Wednesday.

According to police, during interrogation the insurgents told them that following erection of a barbed wire fencing in the 856-km border with Bangladesh it was becoming difficult for them to flee with arms from their camps.

Altogether, 15 insurgents of different outfits have surrendered this month in the state following Bangladesh army's raids to apprehend Indian insurgents who were using the soil of the neighbouring country.


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Jawan involved in Manipur blast arrested
PTI 22 August 2009, 01:13pm IST


IMPHAL: An India Reserve Battalion jawan allegedly involved in the grenade attack at a private hospital at the Manipur capital complex here, has been arrested, official sources said on Saturday.

The jawan T Munal was allegedly engaged by militant outfit Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) to explode the grenade.

Munal has allegedly confessed to attacking two other private hospitals earlier on the orders of the militant outfit.

Three persons, including an eight-year-old girl, were injured when a powerful grenade, hurled by Munal, exploded at the private hospital run by Manipur Chambers of Commerce in the heart of crowded Imphal market yesterday.

The condition of one of the injured was stated to be serious.

Superintendent of Police (Imphal West district) L Kailun said in a statement that Munal has confessed that he carried out the attack under the instruction of one Ibungo of KCP-MC.

Munal also confessed that he was involved in the attacks on Shanti Hospital on July 27 and Langol View Clinic on July 28, both in Imphal west district, Kailun said.

The SP said necessary departmental action was being taken against Munal.

Jawan involved in Manipur blast arrested - India - NEWS - The Times of India

 

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Locals foil militants’ bid to abduct minister’s son in Manipur

Suspected militants tried to abduct the 24-year-old son of a Manipur minister but he was rescued by the local people, official sources said on Saturday.

The militants of Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) accosted Nasirudin Shah, son of Manipur Minister of State for Rural Development Alaudin Khan, and abducted him as he was coming out of his house along with some of his friends at Lilong area in Thoubal district on Friday evening.

As Shah’s associates raised an alarm, the local people stopped the vehicle in which the militants were fleeing and rescued Shah, the sources said.

The militants, however, later escaped in the vehicle.

Locals foil militants’ bid to abduct minister’s son in Manipur @ The Hindu

 

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One arrested with arms from Indo-Myanmar border

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Aizawl, Aug 22 (PTI) One person was arrested with arms at Champhai market near Indo-Myanmar border, an official statement said today.

Officers of fourth battalion of Assam Rifles held the man and seized three .22 mm pistols and as many magazines from him on August 19, the statement said.

The man was handed over to the officers of Champhai police station the next day, the statement said.

It was still unknown whether the arms were meant for north east insurgents, sources said.

Mizoram, which shares 722-km porous international border with Myanmar and Bangladesh, has been one of the biggest routes for arms and narcotics trafficking in India.

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Two ULFA militants killed in encounter in Assam Updated on Thursday, August 27, 2009, 13:12 IST Tags:ULFA, militants, encounter, Assam

Nalbari: Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Assam's Nalbari district Thursday, official sources said here.


Acting on a tip-off about the militants taking shelter in Jarpaluk village, a joint team of the army and police launched an operation and cordoned off the village since last night.

The militants in a bid to escape opened fire this morning and the security forces retaliated and the duo were killed in the exchange.

One of the militants was identifed, the sources said adding a pistol with several rounds of ammunitions and some documents were recovered from the slain militants.

Two ULFA militants killed in encounter in Assam

 

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Four hurt in petrol bomb attack in in Meghalaya

Updated on Thursday, August 27, 2009, 12:28 IST Tagsetrol bomb attack

Shillong: Four persons were injured when some unidentified persons lobbed a petrol bomb on a truck in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills district, police said here Thursday.


The incident coincided with a two-day night road blockade enforced by the Jaintia Students Union in the district from Tuesday night to press for their various demands.

The bomb was hurled on the truck at Newhill last night injuring the four persons, including the driver.

Police said the injured had been admitted to a nearby hospital where the condition of two of them was stated to be serious.

Meanwhile, one more vehicle was attacked with a petrol bomb at Ladthadladoh as picketers burnt tyres at several places to enforce the blockade.

The blockade ended this morning.

Four hurt in petrol bomb attack

 

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ULFA militant nabbed in Assam

STAFF WRITER 16:52 HRS IST
Sibsagar (Assam), Aug 27 (PTI) An ULFA militant was held today and several notes of extortion were recovered from him in Assam's Sibsagar district, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and army nabbed Ajit Tanti alias Ranjit Tanti from Sonari town in the district.

Several extortion notes signed by 'finance secretary' of the outfit's 28 Battalion Michael Deka Phukan were recovered from the ultra, and the security forces suspect that he was sent to serve extortion notes to several people and organisations of the area, sources said.

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One ultra killed, one injured in encounter

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Diphu, Aug 28 (PTI) One suspected ultra was killed and another seriously injured in an encounter with the army in Assam's hill district of Karbi Anglong today.

The army on a tip-off raided Srilanghshu village where a group of ultras were holed up. The ultras fired on the approaching security men and in the ensuing encounter one of them was shot dead while another was injured, army sources said.

The area was dominated by the banned Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF), the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) has a presence in the area, they said.

The identity of the slain ultra was yet to be established, sources added.

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ULFA denies kidnapping of officials of cement company

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Shillong, Aug 28 (PTI) Even as combing operations were on to trace two officials of a cement company kidnapped last week, ULFA today denied its involvement in it.

"We are not involved in the kidnapping. ULFA cannot commit such a heinous act," a caller identifying himself as Gulit Das, self-styled commander of ULFA's 109 battalion, said.

He also dismissed reports that ULFA demanded Rs 20 lakh as ransom money for their release.

Virgo Cement Company manager Sambhu Dhanuka and its chief engineer P K Hore were kidnapped on Friday last by five suspected militants from near their factory at Damas in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district.

Though their vehicle was recovered at Miyapara near Assam border, hours after the incident, the duo is still missing, police said.

Intelligence sources had said ULFA had demanded Rs 20 lakh from Dhanuka and when he refused, he along with Hore were kidnapped.

http://www.ptinews.com/news/252576_ULFA-denies-kidnapping-of-officials-of-cement-company