[Assam] Reporters in Assam are now threatened with punishment

Wed Jun 6 08:06:19 EDT 2007

Did you all notice - the ULFA sympathizers are staying far, far away from
this story?
It seems like they just want this to go away as they have no way to defend
or spin it.

--Ram

On 6/5/07, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It seems ULFA is playing the punisher
>
> ***
> *05.06 - India : four journalists threatened by the separatist rebel group
> United Liberation Front of Asom*
> The separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at the weekend
> threatened to "punish" four journalists who were involved in the
> organisation of a demonstration in Guwahati in the north-east on 31 May
> 2007. The four: D.N. Chakrabarty, Nava Thakuria, Ronen Goswami and Rupam
> Baruah, have openly condemned an escalating campaign of violence,
> particularly bomb attacks on markets, which have been attributed to the
> rebel group. The ULFA has been fighting since 1979 to win independence from
> India for the north-eastern region.
>
> Umesh
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> *Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>* wrote:
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>  Go to the bottom of the attachment. Reporters in Assam are now threatened
> with punishment -
> by whom? Could it be GOI? Or is it GOA?
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> *05.06 - Greece : night-time attack on several publications by suspected
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> publications owned by Lambrakis Press, including the country's most popular
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> another newspaper, Apoyevmatini, on 14 May.
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> *05.06 - India : four journalists threatened by the separatist rebel group
> United Liberation Front of Asom*
> The separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at the weekend
> threatened to "punish" four journalists who were involved in the
> organisation of a demonstration in Guwahati in the north-east on 31 May
> 2007. The four: D.N. Chakrabarty, Nava Thakuria, Ronen Goswami and Rupam
> Baruah, have openly condemned an escalating campaign of violence,
> particularly bomb attacks on markets, which have been attributed to the
> rebel group. The ULFA has been fighting since 1979 to win independence from
> India for the north-eastern region.
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