Click to play videoTinsukhia (Assam): Nearly a week after the banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) began a systematic carnage of migrant labourers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the Army has decided to declare a war of sorts on the rebel organisation.
The Army, paramilitary forces and the state police are now bracing for a joint offensive against the ULFA in Assam and a major crackdown has already been launched along Assam's border with Arunachal Pradesh, known to be an ULFA territory for long.
Five districts of Arunachal Pradesh share a common border with Assam. Intelligence reports suggest the ULFA is using at least three districts in the region as bases to carry out guerrilla attacks.
This area is reportedly also used as a transit to ULFA's training bases in neighbouring Burma.
A brigade of nearly 4,000 army personnel, 14,000 para-military troopers have been deployed for the mammoth operation and helicopters are being kept on a standby to drop soldiers in jungles along the Assam-Arunachal border.
“Army has carried out certain redeployment and readjustment. We've fanned out,” says the GOC, 4 CORE Major General NC Marwah.
This is one of the biggest operations being carried out against ULFA in the recent past and three rebels have been already killed, and two were arrested on Tuesday.
All through 2006, the Centre and ULFA were trying to begin a dialogue, but talks broke down after New Delhi refused to release the organsiation’s top leaders from jail.
Though the security forces have launched their biggest ever operations, but they are still undecided over whether to go all out against the separatist group or be restrained.
The Army has also requested the Burmese government to flush out the rebels from their hideouts across the border as burma has emerged the new base for the group to launch their operations inside Assam.
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