**** Mob fury? 'Army
atrocities'
How about people outraged by military repression and
brutality ?
Is this the same 'people' who don't care about ULFA like someone
asserted the other day :-)?
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Mob fury at Jerai Gaon
NH, rail blocked over 'Army atrocities'
>From our Reporter
TINSUKIA, Jan 31: Two days after the Army resorted to its 'hit and crush' policy in and around the Jerai Gaon area, the ancestral home to ULFA 'C-in-C' Paresh Barua, under Chabua police station in Dibrugarh district, thousands of villagers today took to the streets blocking the NH 37 and the Tinsukia-Dibrugarh rail route near Kanjikhowa for over six hours protesting against, what they called, atrocities committed on them by the Army.
The agitating villagers burnt the effigies of Governor Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and local MLA Raju Sahu shouting slogans like "Tarun Gogoi murdabad", "Ajai Singh murdabad" and "Go back Army". The protesters also demanded immediate release of the two youths who were picked up by the Army on Monday.
The 4th Jat Regiment had launched a massive man hunt in the areas engulfing Jerai Gaon, Mohkorah and Karuapathar under Chabua police station since Sunday.
ADC Shamser Singh and ASP Pradip Kar, who had rushed to the place soon after the protesters came to the streets, failed to pacify the mob. The duo then left for the Army camp at Laipuli here. It was only after they returned at around 5 p.m. and assured the gathering that the arrested youths would handed over to police that the mob dispersed.
Earlier Lakhimpur MP Arun Sarma visited the agitating villagers and assured all possible help. Dibrugarh MP Sarbananda Sonowal, who is in New Delhi, is understood to have called up Bimal Julka, Joint Secretary, North-Eastern Operation of Army regarding the matter. Informed sources said that Sonowal has sought a report from the ADG (operation), Mukesh Sabrawal besides discussing the matter with Chief Secretary S Kabilan and Home Secretary Rajiv Bora.
Talking to mediapersons over phone from New Delhi, Sonowal feared that the Army operations might throw a spanner in the on-going peace process with the ULFA.
Significantly, local MLA Raju Sahu was conspicuous by his absence from the scene.
A late night report said that the two youths, who had been picked up by the Army yesterday, were handed over to Chabua police late this evening.
>From our Reporter
TINSUKIA, Jan 31: Two days after the Army resorted to its 'hit and crush' policy in and around the Jerai Gaon area, the ancestral home to ULFA 'C-in-C' Paresh Barua, under Chabua police station in Dibrugarh district, thousands of villagers today took to the streets blocking the NH 37 and the Tinsukia-Dibrugarh rail route near Kanjikhowa for over six hours protesting against, what they called, atrocities committed on them by the Army.
The agitating villagers burnt the effigies of Governor Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and local MLA Raju Sahu shouting slogans like "Tarun Gogoi murdabad", "Ajai Singh murdabad" and "Go back Army". The protesters also demanded immediate release of the two youths who were picked up by the Army on Monday.
The 4th Jat Regiment had launched a massive man hunt in the areas engulfing Jerai Gaon, Mohkorah and Karuapathar under Chabua police station since Sunday.
ADC Shamser Singh and ASP Pradip Kar, who had rushed to the place soon after the protesters came to the streets, failed to pacify the mob. The duo then left for the Army camp at Laipuli here. It was only after they returned at around 5 p.m. and assured the gathering that the arrested youths would handed over to police that the mob dispersed.
Earlier Lakhimpur MP Arun Sarma visited the agitating villagers and assured all possible help. Dibrugarh MP Sarbananda Sonowal, who is in New Delhi, is understood to have called up Bimal Julka, Joint Secretary, North-Eastern Operation of Army regarding the matter. Informed sources said that Sonowal has sought a report from the ADG (operation), Mukesh Sabrawal besides discussing the matter with Chief Secretary S Kabilan and Home Secretary Rajiv Bora.
Talking to mediapersons over phone from New Delhi, Sonowal feared that the Army operations might throw a spanner in the on-going peace process with the ULFA.
Significantly, local MLA Raju Sahu was conspicuous by his absence from the scene.
A late night report said that the two youths, who had been picked up by the Army yesterday, were handed over to Chabua police late this evening.
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