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One of the most elusive and reclusive insurgent leaders in India could potentially agree to talk with the government to end a four-decade-long insurgency in Assam. Paresh Barua, commander of the last remaining underground Ulfa faction, is warming up to peace overtures from chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
It all started on May 10 when, addressing a press conference, Sarma asked the Ulfa (Independent)’s ‘commander-in-chief’ to join the peace process. Barua responded within five days, declaring a unilateral ceasefire for three months from May 15, but he attributed the decision to the Covid situation in the state. The Ulfa, then undivided, had declared a ceasefire in 2005, too, but the peace process never took off to end successfully.
Demand to start peace talks with United Liberation Front of Asom grows louder
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With banned militant outfit, United Liberation Front of Asom - Independent (ULFA-I) declaring a three-month-long ceasefire and releasing abducted ONGC employee, demand to start peace talks grows louder.
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With banned militant outfit, United Liberation Front of Asom - Independent (ULFA-I) declaring a three-month-long ceasefire and releasing abducted ONGC employee, demand to start peace talks grows louder. Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said, “We need to move cautiously in this regard (peace process) and we are moving in this direction.”
Sarma had earlier said that the outfit can show its intent for talks by releasing an abducted employee of ONGC Ritul Saikia. ULFA-I released Saikia and on Saturday he reached his home.
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Guwahati: âThe truth is truth,â said Paresh Baruah, the commander-in-chief of the banned insurgent group United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent), or ULFA(I), as he talked about his upcoming memoir.Â
Speaking to ThePrint from an unknown number, Baruah did not disclose the name of the memoir, but said it would be published in âless than a month or 20 daysâ.
âIf itâs not the truth, people will not accept it. If itâs a fictionalised biography, no one would really want to read it,â he added. âMy part, to narrate facts, has been completed. But other areas â like proof-reading and editing â are being done.â