[Assam] How hard you try, the State sponsored ‘Death Squads’ and assassinations (so called ‘secret killings’) cannot be hidden forever. Indigenous Assam surely knows the truth. Remove Indian security grip and see the PROOF galore.

[Bartta Bistar]

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*Assam govt rubbishes 'secret killings' report*

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=80220

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Posted online: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 1831 hours IST


*New Delhi, January 24: *The Assam Government has termed allegations of
"secret killings" of ULFA activists, levelled by an NGO, as a "systematic
campaign" to demoralise state security forces and ruled out any connivance
of former Chief Minister P K Mahanta with the Centre in this regard.





"There has been no case of secret killings as alleged by the petitioner
(NGO) nor was there any connivance of former Chief Minister P K Mahanta with
the Central government in this regard," the state government said in its
affidavit filed before the Supreme Court.

It was responding to allegations by NGO AALOK which sought a CBI inquiry and
prosecution of politicians and Army and state police officials allegedly
involved in "secret killings" of 265 ULFA activists between 1998 and 2001.

Maintaining that the PIL involves intricate questions of facts, the state
government said the alleged killings, which were reported to police, were
under different stages of investigation and were looked into by a Commission
of Inquiry headed by Justice S N Saikia.

However, the allegations of "secret killings" made by the NGO were without
any iota of proof or sustainable evidence, as the incidents narrated in the
PIL did not show prima facie involvement of state or central machineries in
this.

Ruling out the possibility of 265 such killings, the Assam Government
submitted that "a close scrutiny of documents filed by the petitioner shows
that the total number of persons allegedly killed in the circumstances as
mentioned by the petitioner is only 188".
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