This gets more & more interesting and this saga seems to have acquired more legs than a catepillar.
--Ram ** ** *ULFA and POLFA: A Story of Sheer Crime* T he letter (The Sentinel, June 4, 2007) on the above subject is commendable. POLFA means Political Liberation Front of Asom! The ULFA is no longer just a terrorist organization. Today, it is a multi-million dollar industry in which all political parties are involved. Whatever be the political party in power and whoever rules Dispur, enjoys a cut in the industry. Once the percentages of politicians are fixed, instructions automatically follow to the top-ranking police officers to allow the ULFA to do its extortions. Trade licences for these extortions in each district are issued from Dispur! Poor people of Asom are made poorer by their own elected representatives. The money raised from these extortions flows in two directions. Firstly, the money travels to the top politicians in power through the high-ranking police officials. In this direction, the destination is the highest political authority of the State, and the couriers delivering the booty to their bosses are the top-ranking police authorities. The second direction in which most of the funds collected from extortions flow, is Bangladesh. And the courier for delivery in this direction is the ULFA. Thus Asom is made poorer by the ULFA on the trade licence issued to it from Dispur. It is for the readers to decide who is more anti-Asomiya — the politicians in Dispur, or the ULFA domiciled in Dhaka. It is strange that in nearly three decades of insurgency in Asom, very few ULFA cadres have been killed by the Assam Police. Mostly the Army has identified and annihilated the ULFA. Is it not strange that the native police force does not recognize the terrorists from its own backyard? Why is it necessary to call the Army to quell terrorism in Asom? The answer is plain and simple. Terrorism in Punjab was quelled not by the Army but by its local police force. Terrorism in Punjab was far more aggressive than what it is in Asom. How is it possible that in Asom, the ULFA could not be wiped out even after three decades of its survival? The facts clearly point towards the passive police force of the State. If the police desires, the ULFA can be wiped out in one calendar year. AK Das, Paltan Bazar, Dibrugarh.
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