[Assam] Spraying bullets on P.C. Ram proves that Indian Dalits lives like that of the Assamese are cheaper than the cost of a bullet. All Dalits should now rally behind Mr. Ram’s reported wish to help the ULFA actively in fulfilling its mission.

[Bartta Bistar]

FCI top boss killed in ULFA-Police encounter Guwahati, UNI: FCI top boss P C
Ram died in an exchange of fire between ULFA and police forces near
Kamalpur, at the outskirt of the city, early Thursday.

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jul122007/national2007071212434.asp?section=updatenews

 Two ULFA cadres were also killed in the encounter which took place at
Panitela village near Changsari as the ultras were taking shelter in the
residence of one Gobinda Deka.

According to DIG Assam police G P Singh, ''Along with the bodies of two ULFA
cadres we have recovered another corpse of a 50-55 year-old man. From the
photo we are carrying, he looks like the abducted FCI executive P C Ram. We
are in the process of completing the formalities of identification.''

However, the villagers as well as the media persons who had reached the spot
confirmed that the body was that of Ram. It was lying in a pool of blood,
facing downwards.

The killing of Ram ended the last 13 days' twists and turns in the
abduction-murder case which had left the family as well as the police
confused.



Recovery of a mutilated body by police on June 30 from the Baska area and
subsequent identification of it as Ram unleashed a series of bizarre
developments.

As Ram's family cremated the body and was receiving dignitaries mourning the
death, the FCI top boss himself called up saying that he was alive and that
the corpse belonged to someone else.

An embarrassed Asom government quickly acknowledged its mistake and said the
body belonged to an army man Lance Naik Sunil Kumar who was abducted and
killed by ULFA around the same place.

A day after police said the body found in Baska district on June 30 was that
of lance Naik Sunil Kumar and not the abducted FCI executive director, the
armyman's wife in Himachal Pradesh said it could not be her husband.

Meanwhile, ULFA's announcement on Thursday that Ram was alive and a call to
his family the next day from a man who sounded like him added to the
complications. The police are banking on the DNA profiling of his hair and
skin samples.

His family members were expected to reach Guwahati by this afternoon to
formally identify the body.
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