ULFA-SULFA war claims 3 more lives in Dibrugarh

GUWAHATI, AUG 28: Clashes between the outlawed ULFA and the SULFA (Surrendered ULFA members, as they are popularly called) continue to ro...

GUWAHATI, AUG 28: Clashes between the outlawed ULFA and the SULFA (Surrendered ULFA members, as they are popularly called) continue to rock Assam with three more killings reported from Dibrugarh district last night.

According to reports, three former ULFA activists, Raju Phukan, Utpal Baruah and Roma Gogoi, were gunned down by unidentified assailants at Lahoal near Dibrugarh last night, with police suspecting this to be a handiwork of the ULFA.

All three bodies bore several bullet injuries. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the killings.

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It may be recalled that the ULFA and their former comrades who quit the group in 1992-93 have been at war for the past two weeks or more, beginning with the murder of former senior ULFA leader Tapan Datta in Guwahati on August 10.

This was followed by retaliatory killings said to have been carried out by the former militants, in which family members of several top ULFA leaders were gunned down in different districts in quick succession.

That included the murder of ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa’s brother, four family members of publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary and several others.

Though the ULFA, fearing more killings of unarmed and innocent family members of its leaders, refrained from directly blaming the SULFA, the police is of the belief that a section of former militants were involved, in view of the fact that a large number of them still possess lethal weapons including AK-47 rifles and revolvers.

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