Ram-da,
You can ask the Assam Chief Minister when he comes visiting DC and Boston
this June end.
Umesh
Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This gets more & more interesting and this saga seems to have acquired more
legs than a catepillar.
--Ram
ULFA and POLFA: A Story of Sheer Crime
T he letter (The Sentinel, June 4, 2007) on the above subject is commendable.
POLFA means Political Liberation Front of Asom!
The ULFA is no longer just a terrorist organization. Today, it is a
multi-million dollar industry in which all political parties are involved.
Whatever be the political party in power and whoever rules Dispur, enjoys a cut
in the industry. Once the percentages of politicians are fixed, instructions
automatically follow to the top-ranking police officers to allow the ULFA to do
its extortions. Trade licences for these extortions in each district are issued
from Dispur! Poor people of Asom are made poorer by their own elected
representatives.
The money raised from these extortions flows in two directions. Firstly, the
money travels to the top politicians in power through the high-ranking police
officials. In this direction, the destination is the highest political
authority of the State, and the couriers delivering the booty to their bosses
are the top-ranking police authorities. The second direction in which most of
the funds collected from extortions flow, is Bangladesh. And the courier for
delivery in this direction is the ULFA. Thus Asom is made poorer by the ULFA on
the trade licence issued to it from Dispur. It is for the readers to decide who
is more anti-Asomiya the politicians in Dispur, or the ULFA domiciled in
Dhaka.
It is strange that in nearly three decades of insurgency in Asom, very few ULFA
cadres have been killed by the Assam Police. Mostly the Army has identified and
annihilated the ULFA. Is it not strange that the native police force does not
recognize the terrorists from its own backyard? Why is it necessary to call the
Army to quell terrorism in Asom? The answer is plain and simple.
Terrorism in Punjab was quelled not by the Army but by its local police force.
Terrorism in Punjab was far more aggressive than what it is in Asom. How is it
possible that in Asom, the ULFA could not be wiped out even after three decades
of its survival? The facts clearly point towards the passive police force of
the State. If the police desires, the ULFA can be wiped out in one calendar
year.
AK Das,
Paltan Bazar, Dibrugarh.
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