[Assam] Staying put in their homelands is fine. Indian citizens in Assam are additional ‘eyes and ears’ of the Indian intelligence ‘spy ring’ in Assam in carrying out the overt and covert killings of indigenous Assamese.

[Bartta Bistar]

 Congress Blames Nitish Govt. for Assam Violence
http://www.patnadaily.com/news2007/jan/011006/congress_blames_nda_govt.html

Patna: January 10, 2007

Congress leader and its chief spokesperson H. K. Verma, on Wednesday in
Patna, said the Nitish government in Bihar was responsible for the latest
violence against Bihari workers in Assam adding the NDA government had
failed to provide jobs to millions of its citizens resulting in mass exodus
of workers to other states.

"If the Nitish government had followed up on the Central government plans to
provide employment to poor people, Bihari labors in Assam would not be the
soft target of insurgents," Verma said.

"The killings in Assam are the result of the failure of Nitish government
which failed to provide opportunity to its own citizen," the Congress leader
said.

Verma, as expected, got support from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and
Samata Party leaders who also accused the Nitish government for the massacre
in Assam.

Reacting strongly, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders said the Congress
and its allies were still playing politics with the blood of innocent
Biharis and were morally and mentally bankrupt to blame the 1-year old NDA
government in Bihar for the bloodbath in Assam.

BJP spokesperson Kiran Ghai, while talking to reporters, said Congress was
being delusional for blaming the NDA government in Bihar.

"The UPA government has utterly failed in crushing the insurgents but for
pure political reasons, it is trying to shift the blame on the fledgling NDA
government in Bihar," she said.

"These Biharis did not migrate to Assam in last one year. They left the
state under Lalu-Rabri's 15-year of jungle raj and even the Congress knows
it. However, Congress is a party of spineless, anti-national leaders and it
would be too much to expect from it to crush the terrorists who have
infiltrated many parts of the country under its watch," said a senior Janata
Dal (U) leader.

Meanwhile, protests against killings of Biharis in Assam continued on
Wednesday in Patna.

A number of political parties took out rallies and burnt the effigies of
leaders depending on their political affiliations. While BJP and JD-U
activists burnt the effigies of Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Assam
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi while Congress, RJD, and LJP operatives burnt the
effigy of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.



Also read the following confirming the Indian Army taking steps to keep
Indians on Assam soil.



Ulfa more tech-savvy now

Josy Joseph

Wednesday, January 10, 2007  23:59 IST











DINJAN (Assam): A universal machine gun (UMG) stands prominently among the
exhibits - pistols, medicines and extortion letters - recovered from ULFA
cadres in recent times by the Army's mountain brigade, based in the Upper
Assam district. Upper Assam, both ULFA stronghold and tea nation, is having
sleepless nights as its migrant crowd is fleeing the territory.  The Army,
beefed up with 3000 more soldiers, has begun a hunt for ULFA cadres in their
strong holds of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, and Sibsagar, after the last few days
of violence in which 70 were killed and over 100 injured. With the Defence
Minister AK Antony asserting on Tuesday that the ULFA threat would be met,
the army operations have picked up further steam. But the end is nowhere in
sight as the latest flare-up of violence threatens to spill into
neighbouring states.  The UMG, most probably used for one of the recent
massacres of migrant labourers, is both a reminder of the growing
sophistication of the ULFA and the challenges lying ahead for the
government. The Brigade is now back in operations and searching for
clinching intelligence.  This time operations could get bloodier, some
believe. But definitely the operation will spill over into the neighbouring
states, Arunachal Pradesh among others. The Centre has already alerted the
Myanmar government about ULFA cadres seeking refugee in its soil.  "We need
specific intelligence inputs to carry out operations. ULFA is well
organised, and they have huge resources at their disposal," says a senior
army officer. ULFA cadres continue to collect crores of rupees from tea
plantation owners and other businessmen. There is also an upgrade in the
technological capabilities of the group- UMGs, AK rifles, Chinese made
non-detectable mines etc.  The state was hopeful of peace, when last year
Assamese writer Indira Goswami led a group, to negotiate on behalf of ULFA
with the central government. The Army suspended operations for about a
month- from August 13 to September 24.  Defence minister Antony admits that
while the talks made no substantial progress, ULFA utilised the peace period
for regrouping and arming themselves. Such mistake won't happen again,
Antony said, hinting that the centre will think twice before another
ceasfire with ULFA.  Meanwhile, ULFA's call to boycott national games slated
for February second week in Assam still holds. For the security forces, it
is a necessity that they bring back at least a semblance of peace before
athletes arrive. And ensure that the migrants stay back.
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