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Separatist group in Assam offers peace talks with Indian govt |
2003-04-17 |
IRNA -- A frontline separatist group in India's northeastern state of Assam Thursday offered to hold peace talks with the federal government to end more than two decades of violent insurgency in the region. "We have been time and again seeking for a political solution of the Indo-Assam conflict," the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) said in its mouthpiece, the Freedom, "However, occupation India has been reciprocating our urge with various military operations." Perhaps because ULFA's been expressing its urges by killing people... The ULFA is fighting for an independent homeland and currently operates out of fortified bases in the adjoining Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to carry out their hit-and-run guerrilla strikes on federal soldiers in Assam. There are now reports of the ULFA relocating its bases from Bhutan to
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