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Army moves to seize illegal arms in Kokrajhar
Sunday September 02, 2012 09:03:17 AM,
IANS
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Guwahati: The army,
deployed in Assam's troubled Kokrajhar district, has started an
operation to seize all illegal arms and ammunition there, informed
sources said Saturday.
"The army has started an operation in the district today
(Saturday). The operation will continue till all the illegal arms
and ammunition are seized in Kokrajhar," said a highly-placed
source.
The sources indicated that similar operations might also be
carried out in all the areas of Bodoland Territorial Areas
Districts (BTAD) and in Dhubri.
Assam's opposition All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) had
demanded that the central as well as the state governments take
steps for seizure of all illegal arms and ammunition in BTAD for
establishing lasting peace in the area where clashes between Bodos
and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers had led to 95 people being
killed and over four lakh people displaced.
AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal had also met Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and demanded that the BTC
council be dissolved as it had failed to provide security to the
non-Bodos living in BTAD and that all the illegal arms and
ammunition be seized.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had earlier also asked the police
and security forces deployed in the violence-hit districts to
seize illegal arms.
Police said automatic firearms have been used in the last four to
five days of the violence in three districts.
The four BTAD districts - the Bodo heartland of Assam - had been a
hotbed of militancy earlier.
While the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) outfit has been disbanded
and its leaders now run the administration in the four districts,
many of its members are reported to possess illegal arms, which
they did not deposit while surrendering.
Similarly, the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) now
has two groups -- one group of surrendered militants who expressed
their willingness to sit for peace talks and the anti-talks
faction, headed by Ranjan Daimnary, which also reportedly
possesses a lot of illegal weapons.
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