[Assam] assam Digest, Vol 28, Issue 22 :AGP behinnd killing of ULFA members kin!!

Sat Nov 17 08:00:18 CST 2007

  Dear friends,
  The incident was well known to all of Assam at that time only.But due to lot many tusle among our own people and ULFA/SULFA- whole thing was meshed up.Neither human right activist tried to do something.(Human right activist are worst than Animal right activist!!To save stray dogs!!)
  Prafullas Mahanta hence kept the Home ministry posrtfolio with him and managed very cleverly to kill then Minister Lalit Rajkhowa with filmy style accident.Somehow he too managed to get rid of Bhrigu.ULFA never bothered all.. nor others...The dense isolated hills of Nunmati and Narengi and Khanapara was full of dead bodies- since Prafulla was in power.And he used to most safe hands-The "Black Panther forces" of Assam battalion specially trained  in Punjab to plot the murders..The Black Panthers was only doing such jobs at night.And so scary Prafulla was having Army black cat to have Z category security cover like Jayalalitha.Them who will hang the bell on cats neck??
  These are all open secret that every sensible assamese knows.This is another reason that our present CM re-ordered.
  Let ULFA hand Prafulla like Saddam now-!!

  Subject: Re: [Assam] commission: AGP behind killings of ULFA members' kin

  Another display of Indian-jurisprudence!

  Nothing ever happens.

  At 12:16 AM -0800 11/16/07, umesh sharma wrote:
  http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/16/stories/2007111654701400.htm

Mahanta at the helm of secret killings in Assam: Saikia Commission Sushanta Talukdar  Guwahati: The Justice K.N. Saikia Commission has indicted the former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, the then police hierarchy and the Home Ministry for the “extra-constitutional killings” which occurred in Assam during 1998-2001. “There is enough evidence to show that the then Home Minister was at the helm of these extra-constitutional killings,” the one-man Commission said. Mr. Mahanta, who was heading the Asom Gana Parishad-led government, was also Home Minister during this period.  The report of the Commission, constituted by the State government to probe the “secret killings” of family members of leaders and cadres of the United Liberation Front of Asom, was tabled in the Assembly by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday.  About the motive behind the “secret killings,” the Commission said it was “perpetuation of the AGP rule by villainy, treachery and monstrous cruelty and
 dangerous propensity.”  “Remote orchestration”  The common characteristics of the cases and evidence “prove beyond reasonable doubt, remote orchestration of killing from the Home Ministry, through police-SULFA [surrendered ULFA] nexus using some SULFAs as the striking arms or executioners. The authority may be held liable and be dealt with according to law.”  The Commission recommended to the government “to try to first keep in abeyance, and then gradually dismantle” the Unified Command structure of the Army, the Assam police and the Central paramilitary forces as an immediate measure to prevent recurrence of such killings.  The Commission observed some common characteristics — each killing involved an ULFA family or an ULFA related family, the investigations mostly fizzling out or ending in Final Reports or investigations pending, but no clue. No charge sheet was submitted in any case. Most of the killings occurred at dead of night, and the assailants invariably spoke in
 Assamese to wake up the victims.  “The assailants were invariably armed with sophisticated firearms of prohibited bores, and masked with black wrappers or caps to avoid being identified,” the report said. The weapons used in the killings were invariably firearms of different sizes, bores and calibres, mostly of prohibited bores normally found in police-military situations. As firearms with prohibited bores were used, forensic/ballistic examinations of exhibits were mostly avoided or unduly delayed, and the investigation ultimately fizzled out. The vehicles used were mostly Maruti Gypsies and vans and always without registration numbers. There was police patrolling in the crime areas prior to and after, but not during the killings.  Army ubiquitous  The Army was ubiquitous. “By Army, we mean the armed forces of the Union deployed in Assam in aid of civil power. There was lurking evidence of police-SULFA nexus in the killings, some of the latter being constituted as an
 extra-constitutional authority and used as executioners. The modus operandi being to visit the family, ask members to persuade its ULFA members to surrender, failing which, to send an advance team to survey the location and structure of the house, then to send armed and masked men at dead of night, knock at the door to wake up the inmates and then drag him/them out and shoot him/them dead, or take him/them away and secretly kill and throw the bodies somewhere.”  The report said there was “general resentment” against the Unified Command Structure/Chief Minister.”  In its action taken report, the government said it accepted the Commission’s recommendation to revive 20 cases for re-investigation. As for keeping in abeyance and gradually dismantling the Unified Command structure, it said the recommendation would be considered in conjunction with the prevailing situation at the time of the tri-monthly review of the structure.  Another report tabled  The government also tabled
 the preliminary report of the Justice J.N. Sharma Commission, constituted prior to the setting up of the Saikia Commission.  Justice Sharma said he was not able to identify the killers and accomplices, and pinpoint responsibility.  

Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C.

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

Dr.Bikash K. Das

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