Rajkhowa a terrorist,punish him,say parents of Dhemaji victims

A couple of days after he was accorded a heros welcome on his release on bail,Arabinda Rajkhowa,chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),is facing a lot of difficult questions to which he apparently does not have an immediate answer.

A couple of days after he was accorded a heros welcome on his release on bail,Arabinda Rajkhowa,chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),is facing a lot of difficult questions to which he apparently does not have an immediate answer.

While the All Tai-Ahom Students Association (ATASU),an influential students body in upper Assam,has asked Rajkhowa why the outfit had killed one of its founders,families in Dhemaji,where 13 children were killed in an explosion on August 15,2004,have questioned why the ULFA chief was being given such a public reception. We want to know from Arabinda Rajkhowa why the ULFA had brutally murdered Dimbeswar Gogoi,a founder of the ATASU in 1990, said Pranjal Rajkonwar,president of the students body.

He said that while Gogoi was abducted by the ULFA on December 30,1990,his body was later dug out from the mass graves in Lakhipathar,a reserved forest near Digboi in upper Assam.

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In Dhemaji,headquarters of the district by the same name in eastern Assam,parents of the 13 children who lost their lives when the ULFA triggered a powerful explosion at the official Independence Day function in 2004,too,have demanded an explanation from the ULFA.

Memories of the day I lost my daughter along with 12 others in that explosion will always remain fresh in my mind. I want to know what Rajkhowa has to say about that incident, said Padmeswar Bargohain,whose daughter Manasi,a school student,died in the blast.

Dambaru Gogoi,father of Manjit,a Class II student who was killed in the blast,said: I want proper legal action against the ULFA leader who is solely responsible for the death of our children. For us he is a criminal and a terrorist. I want him to be punished, said Gogoi over the phone from Dhemaji.

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