Cloud of uncertainty over peace bid: Ulfa
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Guwahati, Dec. 31. The United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has accused the Centre of trying to derail the nascent peace initiative by intensifying Army and police operations against the outfit in Arunachal Pradesh and different places of Assam, including Sadiya, Lakhimpur, Tinsukia, Nagaon, Marigaon and Goalpara.
In a statement issued in the latest issue of the outfits mouthpiece, Freedom, the chairman of Ulfa, Arabinda Rajkhowa, warned that a cloud of uncertainty was fast gathering over the peace initiative in the wake of intensified operations against Ulfa. "The Government of India, which has found no time to consider the demand for release of our jailed central committee members to enable us to take a decision vis-à-vis holding dialogue to find a solution to the conflict, has ample time to let loose its security forces to hound Ulfa cadres in remote areas.
Such actions are not going to help the cause of the peace initiative," Ulfa declared.
Rajkhowa pointed out that the release of Ulfas central committee leaders was essential in the interest of peace efforts launched through Peoples Consultative Group. The Ulfa, which constituted the PCG to prepare the ground for its talks with the Central government, had demanded the release of its members, including a few who went missing in the wake of the Bhutanese armys operation against Ulfa. SNS
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