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| Commandos airdropped into national park |
| 2006-10-06 |
| Guwahati: Army helicopters on Friday dropped commandos in upper Assam's Dibru Saikhowa National Park to flush out militants of the 28th battalion of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Army sources told The Hindu that "special forces have been deployed in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park to flush out ULFA militants holed up there. These special forces were airlifted from an Army base in Jorhat." The source said the flush out operations have been launched by troops of 2 Mountain Division inside the Park and also in Arunachal Pradesh. Troops have thrown a cordon around the 765 sq km park area, which has a 340 sq km core area. He said ULFA militants temporarily moved out from the national park areas in 2005. In 2006, they re-entered the park taking advantage of the unilateral truce declared by the Centre. The Army called off its operations inside the park last year following pressures by the ULFA-appointed People's Consultative Group (PCG) on the Centre. The ULFA had nominated it at the peak of the operations in the park. The PCG and the ULFA had alleged that the Army, during its operation, killed 12 cadres of the outfit and threw their bodies into a river. The charge was denied by the Army. |
| Posted by:john |
| #3 Thanks OP, didn't read it close enuff! |
| Posted by: RD 2006-10-06 23:40 |
| #2 I think most of the Assamese are more likely to be Hidus or anamists, rather than muslims. This is just another marxist front organization, of which there are many in India. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-10-06 23:03 |
| #1 Kool, Operation flush jehadi! |
| Posted by: RD 2006-10-06 19:20 |