[Assam] Indian Generals confirmed of breaking ULFA’s back & Tarun Gogoi boasted of making Assam secure. Can one believe now that the ULFA is realistically capable of being behind the serial blasts on soft targets despite the seamless security in the form of

[Bartta Bistar]

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*Terror rerun keeps forces on edge*

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*http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060612/asp/frontpage/story_6341399.asp*

OUR BUREAU

Guwahati/Jorhat, June 11: Militants suspected to be from the banned Ulfa
continued to blast holes in the security net, sending befuddled police and
central forces on a wild-goose chase for clues to more such planned attacks.


Two policemen and a civilian were injured in a grenade attack at Makum, in
Tinsukia district, around 7.45 pm and an early-morning explosion on a rail
track disrupted train services between Upper Assam and the rest of the
country till afternoon.

A meeting of the Unified Command, which plans and executes
counter-insurgency operations, decided to seek more central forces to tackle
the situation. The meeting also decided to intensify "area-domination" by
security forces.

Apart from intensifying frisking and stepping up vigil at major
installations and potential trouble spots, army dog squads were pressed into
service at several places in Upper Assam. Policemen in plainclothes were
deployed in some areas.

Today's sequence of strikes began with a timed explosion on a rail track in
Sivasagar district, just 10 minutes after the Howrah-Dibrugarh Kamrup
Express had crossed the spot. About a metre of the rail track was damaged in
the blast. A crater two metres wide and a feet deep was created.

Rail links between Upper Assam and the rest of the country were snapped for
several hours following the blast on the track between Borhat and
Baruahnagar railway stations around 5.40 am.

The Tinsukia-bound Inter City Express was held up at Simaluguri railway
station, while the Tinsukia-Lumding passenger train was delayed by several
hours. NF Railway's chief spokesman T. Rava said services were restored
around 1.30 pm.

Two powerful bombs and a hand grenade were defused in the nick of time at
two places in Sivasagar district. The two bombs had been planted under rigs
of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation at Gemongpul. The grenade was found
near an oil pipeline at Laipuling village.

A 250-KV transformer of the Assam State Electricity Board was damaged at
Seuj Nagar in Sadiya, under Tinsukia district, in an explosion last night.
Another transformer at Chapakhowa village in Sadiya was damaged in a timed
blast.

The All Assam Students Union condemned the series of blasts that claimed
several lives in different parts of the state since Thursday.

"The Centre and the state government may be responsible for delaying the
peace process, but does it mean that the common people have to pay the price
with their lives?" AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya asked.

The organisational secretary of the student union's Puthimari unit, Hiren
Deka, died in a blast. A Gauhati University student, Rinku Basumatary, is
battling for life in hospital. The All Kamrup District Students' Union will
observe Tuesday as a day of mourning.

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*As Indian Army rushes to North East to neutralize ULFA and other insurgents
India faces the dilemma between human rights and security*
Sudhir Chadda
Jun. 11, 2006

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/9598.asp

As Indian Army rushes to North East to neutralize ULFA and other insurgents
India faces the dilemma between human rights and security.

Indian Army will take care of the situation but at what cost - it is the
failure of New Delhi Government that haunts India.

According to media reports, at a meeting on Sunday against the backdrop of
ULFA- sponsored violence, the Command decided to tighten security measures
throughout the state and asked the army to step up vigil. The meet discussed
the fallout of the coming peace talks with the ULFA and its modalities. The
meeting, presided by state chief secretary S Kabilan, was attended by top
army and civil officials.

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*Unified Command reviews situation*

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*http://www.assamtribune.com/  12 June 2006*

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*By A Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI, June 11 – With a series of blasts rocking the State, the Unified
Command met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary S Kabilan
and reviewed the situation. At least seven persons were killed and more than
50 others injured in a series of blasts that rocked the State from June 8.

The Chief Secretary, who is the head of the Unified Command, cut short his
visit to New Delhi and rushed back to the State and reviewed the situation
in a meeting with senior officials of the Home Department, police, Army and
paramilitary forces. The meeting decided to beef up security arrangements to
prevent subversive activities by the militants belonging to the ULFA.

The police officials present in the meeting admitted that shortage of forces
was a major problem faced by them in tackling the situation and the meeting
decided to request the Centre to send additional forces to the State to deal
with the situation. The police also pointed out that the ULFA was using
fresh cadres to trigger off explosions and it was very difficult for the
security forces to identify them.

The police and security agencies had prior information about the plan of the
ULFA to trigger off a series of explosions in different parts of the State,
particularly in the oil installations in the middle of this month, but it
was not possible to guard every inch of the land and shortage of forces also
added to the problem.

The attacks continued till today as two police personnel and one civilian
were injured in a grenade blast at Makum in Tinsukia district this evening.

Meanwhile, the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) today strongly condemned the
recent blast and decided to observe "black day" on June 13 in memory of
those killed in the blasts by hoisting black flag in all the district
headquarters of the State.

In a release here today, the AASU said that the organisation is against all
kinds of violence and called upon all concerned to stop killings of
innocents. The AASU revealed that one of its members Hiren Deka was killed
in the blast at Machkhowa vegetable market.

The AASU said that the Central and State governments were responsible for
the delay in carrying forward the peace process, but that did not mean
innocent people of the State would have to suffer. The AASU also asserted
that it would continue to oppose any kind of violence and work for creation
of a violence-free atmosphere in the State.


Rail tracks, oil pipeline blown off, ULFA denies hand
http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034

Guwahati: ULFA militants today blew up railway tracks in Sibsagar, minutes
after the Rajdhani Express passed through the area, and damaged an
oil<http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034>pipeline
in Dibrugarh, police said though the banned
outfit <http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034> has
denied any hand in the serial blasts that have rocked Assam since Thursday.
The remote-controlled bomb exploded this morning between Bhojo and Sibsagar
stations after the Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express and Dibrugarh-New
Delhi<http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034>Rajdhani
Express passed through the area.

There was no casualty though railway tracks have been extensively damaged
and rail traffic has come to a halt with several trains controlled at
various places.

Earlier on Friday night, railway tracks were damaged following a blast at
Balimar near Naharkatia in Upper Assam just before the Delhi-bound Rajdhani
was to pass by. The
gas<http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034>pipeline
in the area was also damaged in the blast.

An oil pipeline was blown up last midnight at Kothaloni under Tengakhat
police <http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034> station
in Dibrugarh district.

The militants had also blown up two pipelines in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh
district last night affecting oil and
gas<http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034>supply
to Brahmaputra Valley
Fertilizer <http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034>Company
Limited.

Altogether six people have lost their lives and more than 40 people injured
by blasts since June 8.

The ULFA, however, denied its involvement in the blasts and blamed certain
vested interests<http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=8034>for
these incidents.

ULFA Commander-in-Chief Paresh Barua in a statement to the local media
accused vested interests of masterminding the blasts to derail the peace
process and defame the outfit.
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