The ULFA militants have once again targeted the Hindi speaking people in Assam. This is the second assault by them this year. A village in the Karbi Anglong district was raided by heavily armed ULFA activists, who shot eight Hindi speaking laborers to death and injured two others.

Earlier this year, militants slaughtered seventy Hindi-speaking people in four districts, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sibsagar and Dhemaji, between January 3 and 13.

About the latest attack, police said that a group of ULFA and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front or KLNLF rebels attacked Ampaher village at about 8.30 pm on Wednesday. They were heavily armed. They fired on the houses and murdered eight people then and there.

The village is at an approximate distance of 65 km from district headquarter Diphu. The confrontation took place in the middle of a 100-hour long bandh of the Karbi Anglong and North Cachhar Hills. The bandh, called by KLNLF, had started on 6th August. Army personnel were reportedly sent to the location.

The trauma however does not end here. ULFA militants blasted a bomb earlier during the day at Hengrabari area of Guwahati nearby the highly protected capital complex. The blast injured two people. Rajen Singh, the Additional Superintendent of Police (City) said that the bomb blast happened next to the Directorate of Public Health office.

The saga of aggression seems to have become recurrent in these areas. The rebel groups have broken hostilities again in the run up to the Independence Day murdering three people and wounding 27 others. The victims included five policemen in four incidents of IED and serial bomb blasts at Ganeshguri in Kamrup district.

According to a Ministry spokesperson, the Union Home Ministry directed the state government to stay watchful and make sure that nothing troublesome happens in these areas. But it seems that ‘trouble’ is a day-to-day business in these areas of India.

Is the government concerned enough regarding these violent incidents? What are the efforts that are being taken up? How come a small group of militants cause so many nuisances in these areas when they are apparently secured and under constant observation? Questions are numerous in this case, and answers are hardly to be expected. It is indeed true that some parts of India suffer terribly just because of the government’s lack of attention.
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