Hi Nava
Be very careful, these ulfa can do anything ...
pradip
Nava Thakuria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear friends,
Here is a news item published in The Tribune, Chandigarh for your
information.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070607/nation.htm#15
Regards,
Nava Thakuria
ULFA threatens to punish journalists
Bijay Sankar Bora
Tribune News Service
Guwahati, June 6
The banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) has threatened to
punish four senior journalists based in the city for daring to organise a
demonstration and protest march against the reign of terror let loose by the
outfit in the state.
Addressing the protest meeting organised at the Guwahati Press Club, the
four journalists, D.N. Chakrabarty, Nava Thakuria, Ronen Goswami and Rupam
Baruah, condemned the escalating campaign of violence, particularly bomb
attacks in markets, which have been attributed to the banned extremist group.
In a statement e-mailed to the media here, fugitive commander in chief of
the outfit Paresh Baruah, who is suspected to be master-minding ULFA operations
in the state from his shelter in Bangladesh, threatened the four journalists
for daring to mobilise public protest against the outfit.
The ULFA commander stated that the outfit didnt bother about such protests
by agents of Indian colonial rulers and warned that it would not hesitate
from punishing the four journalists for holding a campaign against the outfit.
Responding to an anti-terror call given by 14 citizens, including writers,
journalists and social activists, hundreds of people took out a protest march
from the club on May 31. Raising anti-ULFA slogans, the protesters went through
several busy streets in the city.
Kick-starting the march, veteran journalist D. N. Chakrabarty termed the
latest incidents of explosions as the fourth invasion of Assam by ULFA in
intensity and devastations, the previous three being those of the Burmese
troops in pre-British old Assam.
Similar protests against ULFA were witnessed in the wake of a blast during
the Independence Day celebrations at Dhemaji in north Assam in 2004 that killed
13 persons, mostly schoolchildren.
