ULFA-I uses guerrilla tactic only for self defence and not for waging any waragainstIndia, said Dr Abhizeet Asom.
In a message sent to media on the Protest Day on Saturday, the ULFA-I chairman said that the outfit has been struggling to save the rights of the indigenous people of Assam.
According to the elusive ULFA-I leader, the "immature" studentleaders who spearheaded the Assam Agitation surrendered before New Delhi when they signed an accord to deport Bangladeshi aliens in 1985 with Rajiv Gandhi.
"However, India in contrast is seeking military solution to our legitimate struggle to establish our birthright as enshrined in international statues and our indigenous masses are responding to the call of the hour to own what belong to them," said the ULFA supremo.
He further spoke of the India, Bangladesh land deal with reference to the history of East Pakistan. The outfit also said that the move to give refugee status to the non-Muslim Bangladeshis are strange.
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GOLAGHAT: A local court in Golaghat sent Subir Roy and Damir Roy to jail on Thursday a day after they shot at six of their tea garden workers for demanding wages. Police arrested the owner duo of the tea garden near Numligarh hours after the incident triggering anger among the workers who called district bandh on Thursday. They fired upon a group of workers when they demanded wages and bonus which they have not received. One worker received sustained injury while five others received mild injury who have been admitted in the Golaghat Civil Hospital.
GUWAHATI: Social activist Anna Hazare is on a two days visit to Guwahati took fight for the release of Akhil Gogoi whom the Assam government arrested under the National Security Act. Hazare, who arrived in the capital is meeting many organizations and individuals and discussed the issues confronting the state. kNSS leaders in Guwahati have apprised him of the scene where Gogoi has been sent to jail. The Gandhian leader is also set to meet thr media people in Guwahati on Friday before departing the capital:
GOLAGHAT: Normal life remained totally paralyzed on Thursday under the impact of a day long bandh call by a tea garden student organization demanding death sentence of two tea garden owners who shot at six workers for demanding wages. Roads in the tea rich district remained deserted as vehicles refused to play after the organizers enforced the bandh. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, offices and banks remained closed for the day. Bandh supporters in many places blocked the National Highway for several hours causing immense inconvenience for the passengers. A huge traffic snarl disrupted surface communication on the National Highway No 37 in Bokakhat where more than 5000 tea...
NEW DELHI:A local court in Tamil Nadu on Thursday ordered capital punishment of a youth from Assam who allegedly taped and killed a law student last year. Identified as Aminul Islam, the youth was convicted by thr district session court in Ernaculam to be hanged to death for the double crime. Islam allegedly taped and then killed a law student last year sending shock and anger across the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
BOKAKHAT: Normal surface communication on the National Highway No 37 remained heavily disrupted on Thursday when thousands of tea garden workers blocked the vital road in protest against the Numligarh incident where a tea garden owner sprang upon a group of workers as they demander due payments on Wednesday. Nearly 5000 workers thronged the road and blocked it from 8 in the morning seeking justice
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