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SAN-Feature Service SOUTH ASIAN NEWS-FEATURE SERVICE Pretending to be revolutionary : ULFA's way Nava Thakuria During the last few years, the ULFA has lost publicsupports to a great extent. Once the outfit received media headlines . But today the media of to condemn those barbarous acts out rightly. SAN-Feature Service : They are organized, armed, powerful, influential but not logical and responsible. That is the way one might describe the character of the banned outfit of They are organized (at least for two decades in their 30 years old existence). The ULFA is really enriched with arms & ammunitions and they are still possessing the power to strike (of course it becomes their only choice) in Finally they are influential, because there are still some people in the State who prefer to repose faith on the outfit as a revolutionary group. But there are many high profile individuals in Guwahati, who want to keep ULFA menace continue, as it offers them a handsome dividend always. But, the ULFA leaders (leaving aside few hard core cadres) remained illogical and irresponsible since the beginning. This is the outfit, which can kill an innocent NGO activist (Sanjay Ghosh) and tell his wife that her husband was still alive. When the lady asked for his body (dead or alive), the leader of ULFA turned down her appeal. Till date, the family of Ghosh has not seen his dead body. The ULFA simply ignored the great saying in Hindu mythology that God lives in dead bodies. The same group can kill a teacher-journalist (Kamala Saikia), who wrote a series of articles in the newspapers criticizing the misdeeds of ULFA. A few rebels of the outfit came to the residence of Saikia at night and invited him for some discussions with their 'Sirs'. Saikia was not feeling well but even then he accompanied them, as he was brave enough and of course believed in his wisdom. But those notorious ULFA boys killed him, as they could not defeat Saikia in debates. His body was found next morning and shockingly his entire body carried the signs of torture with the burning cigarettes. The same outfit, who wants to make leadership, killed a young girl (Roshmi Borah) citing the reason that she was a spy to Indian army. In reality, the girl used to teach music to the kids of an Army officer. One ULFA boy wanted her to marry, but when she refused, he termed Roshmi as anti-revolutionary. So she was killed, but (hold your breath!) she was gang raped before being killed. They have been opposing the celebration of Republic Days (of harsh actions against those who dared to hoist National flag during the Days. To enforce their diktats, the outfit made a blast at Dhemaji during the I-Day celebration (2004) killing 13 innocent indigenous women and children. After years of keeping mum on the issue, the great Commander-in-Chief of the ULFA had recently made a public apology to the people of Is it that the leaders of ULFA have realized about their disastrous activities and hence have decided to get reformed? It can be easily guessed that reason behind it might be the serious crisis the ULFA is facing today. During the last few years, the ULFA has lost public supports to a great extent. The media starts ignoring the 'unnecessary long and useless' statements issued by the outfit time to time. Once the outfit received media headlines for all destructive activities as their smart sympathizers in Guwahati played the trumpets justifying those crimes. But today the media of to condemn those barbarous acts out rightly. And more to it, guts to take actions against the hiding ULFA leaders in their territories. In the recent months, the Choudhury and its finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika, who were forced to get trapped in they were living in Bangladeshi Muslim) and of course maintained a healthy and happy family life. Finally a big catch for the founders of ULFA, Arabinda Rajkhowa was on way to with another important ULFA leader Raju Baruah and with their families (and also bag and baggage). The chairman of ULFA, Rajkhowa slipped into the Border Security Force custody through the Bangladesh-Meghalaya border (and finally they all were handed over to Meanwhile, the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram made a statement in the Parliament that the top ULFA leaders had surrendered to the Indian agencies. But when Rajkhowa was asked by the local reporters in Guwahati, whether he had surrendered, the fierce leader got annoyed and strongly denied that. He would never do so, Rajkhowa shouted. But is it not a case of surrender? You are a top leader of a banned group believing in arms struggle and you are under the security cordon (of your own) by many armed cadres. After a series of developments, you are under the government custody. The entire episode had not witnessed a single firing from your end. Amazingly, you were with your wife and babies at the international border and today you all are in safe custody. It might not be a formal surrender ceremony where Rajkhowa and his colleagues had paraded. But militarily and morally, all the top ULFA leaders had surrendered to the Indian government agency. Question arises, do they have the moral courage to confess the truth behind there mysterious surrender to the people of ultimate attempt to be logical, honest and responsible. –SAN-Feature Service Nava Thakuria is an Assam-based senior journalist of |
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