Villagers shot dead in NE India

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Assam hit by double bomb attack​

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Police in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam say one person has been killed and nine others wounded in two separate bomb blasts.

A shopkeeper died when one of the bombs exploded as he tried to remove it in a market in the state capital, Guwahati.

A second explosion in the western town of Bongaigaon injured seven people.

Police have blamed the explosions on the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), although no group has claimed carrying out the attacks.

The Ulfa has unleashed a violent campaign since talks between mediators assigned by them and the central government broke down in September.

Earlier this month, some 70 mainly Hindi-speaking migrants died in a week of violence blamed on the Ulfa.

Ulfa is fighting one of India's longest running insurgencies to establish an independent homeland in Assam.

The rebels say India's government exploits the state's rich resources such as tea and natural gas and does little for its people who are ethnically closer to Burma and China than to India.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6292263.stm

 

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Bomb blast kills three in India

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At least three people have been killed and seven injured in a bomb blast in India's north-eastern state of Assam, police say.

The bomb was placed in a car park at a railway station in the state capital Guwahati, they said.

The blast site is just metres from an army camp where soldiers transiting through the city make a stopover.

Police say they suspect rebels from the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) planted the bomb.

Violence in Assam has increased since September when peace talks between Ulfa and the federal government broke down.

At least 20 people have since been killed in different incidents.

Ulfa accuses the central government of "plundering" Assam's mineral and forest resources and neglecting local development.

It has been waging an armed rebellion since 1979.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6177710.stm

 

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Cong member shot dead by ULFA in Assam
[ 24 Jan, 2007 1005hrs ISTPTI

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dead_by_ULFA_in_Assam/articleshow/1414841.cms

GUWAHATI: In stepped up violence perpetrated by the proscribed ULFA in Assam, a Congress panchayat member was killed while as many as 12 persons were injured, some of them seriously, in separate incidents of firing, bomb blasts and a grenade attack.

Police said armed ULFA militants raided the house of Chandra Chutia, President of Congress-controlled Sachani Gaon gram panchayat at Tarani Pathar area in Dibrugarh district and shot him dead. Six people were seriously injured when a bomb, planted by ULFA, exploded among Saraswati puja revellers in the busy Adabari bus terminus area in Guwahati, police said.

In Bongaigaon town, tension prevailed as a powerful ULFA planted bomb went off near the Superintendent of Police's office at Paglasthan area.

Five persons were seriously injured and the casualty figure might go up, the police said.

Early in the day another ULFA bomb exploded at the Boro fish market area in Bongaigaon but there was no casualty.

One 16-year old girl was injured when she was hit by bullet splinters after ULFA militants hurled a grenade in Kamalpur area in Kamrup district.

 

[Contrarian]

They are losing their own support by killing more and more civilians. I hope the IA kills them all in the most brutal manner invented.
I hope these killings give the government the political will to give the army orders to wipe them off. Every time the army is going to do so, the govt starts its political agendas.

 

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Blasts rock Assam on Republic Day eve​

Sushanta Talukdar

Guwahati: Blasts triggered by United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rocked Assam on the eve of Republic Day.

A suspected militant was killed and a pedestrian was injured. Security has been beefed up in the State in view of the call issued by the outfit to boycott the celebrations.

A suspected ULFA militant, who was carrying a bomb, was killed when it exploded at Borhapjan in Tinsukia district on Thursday.

The police suspect that the bomb was being taken to Tinsukia for sabotaging Republic Day celebrations.

The pedestrian, who was injured, was admitted to the Assam Medical College and Hospital at Dibrugarh.

Another blast occurred in the Ganeshguri area around 6.15 p.m. amid heightened security measures by the police and paramilitary forces.

However, there was no casualty. City Senior Superintendent of Police S.N. Singh told reporters that the police were trying to ascertain whether the blast was caused by a bomb or a grenade was lobbed.

The police recovered an improvised explosive device at a market in Lakhimpur district, which was later defused.
http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/26/stories/2007012616180100.htm

 

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Two migrants, Congress leader killed in Assam​

29 Jan, 2007

GUWAHATI: Four people were killed, including two migrant workers and a ruling Congress party leader, in fresh violence in Assam, the latest in a wave of bombings and shootouts, officials said on Monday.

A police spokesman said heavily armed militants suspected to be from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) late Monday attacked Pachmile village in Tinsukia district, about 580 km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati.

"Initial reports say two migrant workers were killed in a shootout by militants," Tinsukia district magistrate Absar Hazarika said.

Police and witnesses said the rebels entered a village house and fired indiscriminately killing two people - both daily wage earners.

"The two belonged to the same family. The militants spared their wives," village headman Ram Surat Shah said.

In another incident, militants shot dead a village-level Congress party leader in eastern Assam's Sivasagar district - the fourth such attack targeting politicians of the ruling party.

The rebels had earlier asked migrants to leave Assam and also threatened to attack Congress party leaders if New Delhi did not stop a counter-insurgency offensive against the outfit immediately.

Security forces late Sunday killed an ULFA guerrilla in Tinsukia district.

"The rebel who was killed in the encounter was believed to be one of the key members involved in the targeted attacks on migrants earlier this month," a senior police official said.

On Sunday, ULFA rebels ambushed a police convoy in eastern Assam wounding three people, including a policeman and two civilians.

There had been a string of separatist attacks in Assam in the run-up to the Republic Day in which 86 people were killed in separate incidents of bombings and shootouts in the past three weeks.

The bombings were preceded by the slaughter Jan 5-8 in eastern Assam by separatist guerrillas of 73 people - 61 of them migrants. At least 10,000 people in Assam, mostly civilians, have died in fighting between government forces and separatists during the last two decades.

 

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A senior leader of the ruling Congress party in the Indian state of Assam, Abdul Bashar, has been killed by suspected separatists, police say.

Police say suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) rebels shot Mr Bashar in his home on Thursday morning.

Ulfa returned to violence after talks between their mediators and the central government broke down in September.

Four Congress leaders and activists have been killed since the Ulfa began a policy of targeting the party.

Panic

Police say that Mr Bashar died on his way to hospital after being shot in the eastern district of Golaghat.

Congress party leaders in the area say panic has gripped the party's grass-root level supporters since Ulfa began attacking leaders and local activists last month.

Ulfa said in a recent statement that "for every Ulfa rebel killed in the Indian military operation underway in Assam, one Congress leader or activist will be killed".

In a separate incident, five Hindi speaking migrants, including three women, were injured in Khagrabil village in central Assam on Wednesday night when a family was attacked by nearly 25 locals armed with sharp weapons.

The cause of the attack is not yet known.

'Baseless and motivated'

Meanwhile, Ulfa has repeated its threat to the region's major television channel, North-East Television (NETV), that it should shut down its operations in Assam within a month unless it can prove a story which it broadcast earlier this week.

The story alleged that Ulfa received 150 million rupees ($3.3m) from the state government to abstain from violence during the Indian National Games, which are due to be held in the state between 9-18 February.

Ulfa spokesperson Rubi Bhuiyan described the story as "baseless and motivated" and said NETV will face "dire consequences" if it fails to prove the story and tries to continue functioning in Assam.

NETV is owned by former central minister of the Congress party, Matang Singh, and his wife Manoranjana.

He hails from the Hindi-speaking state of Bihar but has settled in Assam.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6320347.stm

 

[SMC]

Now surely a lot of this is funded by ISI. There's no way some extremist group in India can exist without the help of ISI.

 

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7454_1923246,000800050001.htm

Bomb explodes in Assam hours before Nat'l Games

Press Trust of India
Guwahati, February 9, 2007

A blast occurred at the Kamakhya railway station on the outskirts of the city on Friday morning barely hours before the inauguration of the 33rd National Games.
There were, however, no casualties, police said.

The blast occurred between the old and new buildings of railway station, which did not disrupt movement of trains, they said.

The station was being used over the past few days to pick up a large number of sportspersons who had arrived here to participate in the Games to avoid the rush at the Guwahati railway station, police said.

A senior police official had received a phone call on Wednesday from a person claiming to be the ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Barua who said two programmable time devices had been planted on the railway track near the Kamakhya railway station.

The caller had also said ULFA should not be blamed for any blast as it had withdrawn the Games boycott call.

Following this, the six-km stretch along the railway tracks from Kamakhya station to Bharalumukh station, towards Guwahati, was dug up on Thursday night, but no bombs or explosives were found, police said.

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to inaugurate the National Games.

 

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Six killed, 18 wounded in Assam blast ​

GUWAHATI: One person was killed and 18 wounded in a powerful bomb blast at a marketplace in Assam, officials said on Friday.

A police spokesperson said the bomb went off late on Thursday outside a hardware shop in Kakopathar village in Tinsukia district, about 530 km east of Guwahati.

The shop owner had spotted an unclaimed bag just outside his shop and informed the police.

"In less than two minutes after we were informed about the bag, the explosion took place. There was a crowd of people who gathered around the bag and hence so many were injured," the official said.

Seven members of the shopkeeper's family were among the casualties of which one died in hospital later.

"Minutes later we recovered another powerful bomb barely 100 metres away from the blast site," he said.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070309/world/india_northeast_unrest_attack_2