As said by the officials, the designated outfit is in severe need of funds to continue activities, they declared on Sunday...
Digital Desk: Once feared, an armed separatist organisation operating in the Northeast Indian state of Assam aimed to establish an independent sovereign nation state of Assam for the indigenous Assamese people through an armed struggle in the Assam conflict.
The Indian government outlawed the organisation in 1990, identifying it as a terrorist organisation, while the US Department of State identifies it as one of "other groups of concern."
On 7 April 1979, a group of young men led by Paresh Baruah, Arabinda Rajkhowa, Anup Chetia, Pradip Gogoi, Bhadreshwar Gohain, and Budheswar Gogoi launched the ULFA in Sivasagar, Assam.
Check out how Militant family members were being murdered in secret!
Unidentified gunmen assassinated a number of ULFA leaders' family members during the government of AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta as part of his government's counter-insurgency campaign. The secret killings ceased with the fall of this government following elections in 2001.
Dinesh Barua, Paresh Barua's elder brother, was abducted from his home at night by unidentified Assamese men. His body was later discovered outside a cremation place in Chabua. Mithinga Daimary, ULFA's self-styled Publicity Secretary, also had five family members assassinated during this period.
The government's inquiry into the killings resulted in the "Saikia Commission" report, which was submitted to the Assam Assembly on November 15, 2007. The investigation details how Prafulla Mahanta, Assam's then-Home Minister, orchestrated the executions. They were killed by police.
The gunmen were former ULFA members who had turned themselves in to the government. To avoid suspicion, they approached their targets at night, knocking on the door and speaking in Assamese. When the victims answered the door, they were either shot or kidnapped and taken someplace to be shot.
ULFA was recognised in the media with several public activities after 1985 and before it was banned in 1990. It has maintained a type of public discourse through the local media (newspapers), announcing its views on political topics centred on the nationality question on occasion. It has taken engaged in public dialogues with Assamese public leaders. The ULFA has called for boycotts in the last two local elections.
According to media sources, it utilised its forces to intimidate activists and supporters of the ruling parties at the time (Congress and AGP respectively).
Then a fearful word, now seems in a dire state- Finances blocked, 4 get detained.
According to a credible source, Assam police have begun an operation to hunt down the source of funds for the illegal group.
Notably, this comes after the Assam police detained four people in the last week, including a linkman.
"The prohibited organisation is in desperate need of funds to carry out its operations throughout the state," the insider stated.
As per informants in Assam police's Charaideo district, the operation's goal is to identify and stop all income sources from the area (Charaideo) so that the money does not get into the hands of the ULFA(I) to carry out its illegal activities.
Furthermore, the roots of the forbidden outfit will be weakened, making it more difficult to confront its illegitimate aims.
Meanwhile, on its "protest day," the banned outfit attacked the state administration and the Centre for "Operation Bajrang" in the late 1990s.
"It is well-known that since 1826, the war-torn state has not only continued to make state terrors with the occupying forces to prevent the burning fire to restore Assam's lost independence; Since its birth, with the effects of division within the organisation, the use of psychological warfare, and the recruitment of spies, the new strife continues," the banned outfit states in its release.
"A nation that has never referred to Udham Singh, Bhagat Singh, or Subhas Chandra Bose as terrorists or fanatics, but rather as freedom fighters." Even after the respective state systems termed Nelson Mandela, the great hero of the South African Liberation Revolution, and Yasser Arafat, the leader of Palestine, as terrorists, India's portrayal of them as freedom fighters is an unambiguous recognition of the armed liberation revolutionaries; on what logic, then, could the liberation revolution imposed by the "Samyukta Mukti Bahini, Assam [Swatantra]" for the sake Our fight or enmity is against slavery or subjection and for the emancipation of our homeland's oppressed people. So, regardless of the adjectives conferred upon freedom revolutionaries, protests and resistance struggles are unavoidable for the just realisation of the country and in light of the disturbance of common interests," the release stated.
Four detained by Assam police-
On the eve of Ulfa (Iprotest )'s day," the Assam Police reported that the previous week's arrests of four people, including a linkman, had cut off the unlawful organization's financing.
According to a statement from the group's self-styled Captain Rumel Asom, the operation, codenamed "Operation Lakhipathar," was carried out to honour "Protest Day," which the militant group will mark on November 28.
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