Forty 4 years after it was fashioned, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which had set making a sovereign Assam as its principal objective, disbanded itself on Tuesday.
The outfit will even should vacate all of the 9 designated camps (Nav Nirman Kendras). (Representative file photograph)
The determination was taken on the outfit’s last normal assembly held at Sipajhar, situated round 55 km from Guwahati, twenty 5 days after ULFA signed a tripartite memorandum of settlement in New Delhi with the Centre and the Assam authorities on December 29.
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“The decision to disband and dissolve the outfit was taken at the meeting today as stipulated by the settlement signed in Delhi. With this the cases of sedition on the outfit will be lifted,” ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa mentioned.
To ensure, whereas the ULFA has round 700 complete members, the anti-talks faction of the outfit, ULFA-Independent (ULFA-I), which has camps in Myanmar and components of northeast and round 200 members, are against any settlement until Assam’s sovereignty is mentioned.
Last month’s settlement, which HT has seen, stipulated that “ULFA shall abjure the path of violence, give up all arms/ammunition and disband the armed organisation within one month”.
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The outfit will even should vacate all of the 9 designated camps (Nav Nirman Kendras) the place ULFA cadres and their households had been staying after coming for talks in 2011. Leadership of the outfit knowledgeable that their arms/ammunition will probably be handed over to the state authorities at a proper ceremony later this month.
The settlement guarantees a lumpsum ex-gratia cost to the cadres, funding of financial actions by them, vocational coaching and authorities jobs relying on eligibility. It acknowledged that legal instances registered in opposition to ULFA cadres for non-heinous crimes will probably be withdrawn.
“We believe that the issues mentioned in the settlement and the assurances given to us by the Centre and the Assam government will be fulfilled,” mentioned Rajkhowa.
He acknowledged that the outfit would avoid get together politics however members of their particular person capability might be a part of political events in the event that they desired.
“It’s an emotional and sad moment. We had given birth to the outfit and today due to circumstances we are forced to destroy it. All of us have made lot of sacrifices and given precious time of their lives to the outfit,” mentioned Anup Chetia, ULFA normal secretary.
In February 2011, ULFA cut up into two teams—one group led by chairman Rajkhowa that determined to surrender its violent previous and sit for talks with Centre with none situation and one other led by Paresh Baruah, which determined in opposition to talks and rebranded as ULFA-Independent.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
