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| Top Indian rebel reported dead in custody | |
| 2003-12-27 | |
| A top Indian rebel leader has surrendered after being reported killed in recent fighting. Bhimkanta Buragohain, the founder of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), was said to have died in a clash with the Bhutanese army last week. Buragohain was shown by the Indian army in the north-eastern state of Assam, where he urged his supporters to lay down their arms and begin talks with the Indian Government. "I think from my side, the path which we led is wrong. Armed rebellion cannot bring independence," the 78-year-old rebel leader said. The Indian army says Buragohain was handed over to them by the Bhutanese Army on Thursday. The ULFA initially claimed that he was killed while waving a white flag to protect a group of women and children. The Bhutanese and Indians probably kept quiet until now to make ULFA look like idiots.
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| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #5 Paul - Glenn (NR) - are you sure you two don't have some Pennsylvania Dutch blood in your past? Gramma Fenstermacher never was able to rearrange the PA Dutch into decent English. It always came out something like "Throw your father over the fence the hammer." |
| Posted by: doc8404 2003-12-27 10:53:10 PM |
| #4 Headline writing is tough. Many years back I clipped (and lost, dammit) from the local rag, item about a position taken by a group of editors/publishers supporting a literacy campaign, they, no shit, having a vested interest in folks being able to read and write. And thus titled: "Newspapers Headline Fight Against Literacy". sigh. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-27 8:25:02 AM |
| #3 Yeah, I changed the title from the uninformative one used by the Beeb, but I meant to type "Top Indian rebel reported dead is in custody", although even that isn't grammatically proper, I guess. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-12-27 6:58:22 AM |
#2 Paul, I know the real story is confusing but your title reminds me of a sentence culled from newspaper writeup of a car wreck Two cycles belonging to girls left leaning against lamp posts were badly damaged.(:-)> |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-27 5:38:49 AM |
| #1 "I am the leader of ULFA. I'm ready to negotiate..." Brilliant! Bravo! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-12-27 12:42:41 AM |