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| Pakistan-trained ULFA experts behind Assam blasts |
| 2006-06-14 |
| Guwahati, June 14. (PTI): The ULFA has stepped up violence in Assam with the help of Pakistan-trained bomb experts, 16 of whom had arrived from across the border, a top police official claimed here today. Addressing a press conference, IGP (Special Branch) Khagen Sarmah said bomb attacks had been on the rise since 2004, when the 16-member team trained in centres at Batrossi hills of Mansera district of Pakistan sneaked into India with the help of the ISI. Sarmah said the ULFA had denied involvement in the blasta that had targetted the comman man due to the fear of losing its popularity. "But it can be proved that the ULFA has been involved since 1988 in the mass killing of innocent people including the kidnapping and murder of social activist Sanjay Ghosh in 1997 which drew worldwide condemnation," he said. He said ULFA members had confessed to having a hand in several blasts, including the attack on school children on Independence Day in 2004 besides recently engineering as many as 20 blasts in four days. Sarmah also denied the charge by the ULFA that he and the Special Branch were involved in the recent bomb blasts. |
| Posted by:Steve |