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In the News (Fri 25 Jul 08)

  
 Tripura
Tripura's basic problem, rather the indigenous Tripuri peoples' problem, is the huge influx of foreigners, mainly Hindu Bengalis and the resultant alienation of indigenous land thereby causing the threat to the distinctive identity of the Tripuri people and their very existence.
Tripura is situated southeast of Bangladesh and is located between the parallels of 22056'' and 24032" North latitudes and 91021" east longitudes.
The present Tripura state covers an area of 10,477 sq.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/tripura.htm   (1103 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
In reaction to the oppression of Tripura’s indigenous population, militant groups such as NLFT have risen and proved able of feeding off discontent among certain citizens.
According to confisicated records of NLFT, the split was caused by internal bickering among senior leaders, misappropriation of funds by certain senior NLFT members, and disagreement over the forcible conversion of NLFT members to Chrisitainty.
NLFT, and other terrorist entities, justifies its insurgency as a reaction to the poor treatment of their tribal people by the Indian government and certain political parties.
www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3644   (510 words)

  
 TRIPURA: MILITANCY DEGENERATES FURTHER
In Tripura, during the surrender of National Liberation Front of Tripura (both Nayanbasi Jamatia and Mantu Koloy factions), militant leaders openly "recruited" youths to join the surrender ceremony, demanding Rs 15,000 from them to be included in the list.
In the month of August, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force joined hands to observe October 15 as “black day” in protest against the erstwhile princely Tripura’s merger with the Indian Union on that date in 1949.
In once such desperate act, heavily armed rebels of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) attacked the village Hazrapara, about 120 kilometers northeast of Tripura's state capital Agartala on September 25.
www.saag.org /papers16/paper1564.html   (1877 words)

  
 15080360.htm
The killing of Tripura Health Minister Bimal Sinha by the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura is a reflection of the seriousness of the terrorist threat in the northeastern region.
ON March 31, Tripura's Health and Urban Development Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Bimal Sinha and his younger brother Bidyut Sinha were gunned down by the militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
The extremists had offered to release the Minister's adopted brother Bikram Sinha, a contractor of Kamalpur whom they had abducted, and had asked the Minister to come without his guards to a place near Avanga on the Ambassa-Kamalpur road in north Tripura.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/fline/fl1508/15080360.htm   (1244 words)

  
 Terror in Tripura
With the United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF), another outlawed militant organisation of Bengali youth, preparing itself for a counter-operation against the tribal people, the hilly areas of South and West Tripura seem dangerously close to a riot-like situation.
The Opposition had always blamed the Front saying that it was reluctant to seek the help of the Army in the State's hill areas "for political reasons," he said, and added that such motivated campaign was meaningless.
Meanwhile, Chief Ministers of the seven northeastern States have asked the Centre to consider the region's insurgency as a national problem and find a solution as a matter of national priority.
www.flonnet.com /fl1712/17120410.htm   (1488 words)

  
 National Liberation Front of Tripura, India, South Asia Terrorism Porta
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed on March 12, 1989, with Dhananjoy Reang (former Vice-President of the Tripura National Volunteers) as its ‘chairman’.
Besides these, according to Tripura police, the NLFT has also linkages with the Nagaland-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Manipur-based Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which is active in Assam.
In June 2003, ‘General Secretary’ Mantu Koloi was reportedly made leader of the faction Biswamohan had been heading.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/tripura/terrorist_outfits/NLFT.HTM   (1109 words)

  
 Strategy of terror
The NLFT offensive began with the abduction of Parbati Reang, wife of Manindra Reang, the Communist Party of India's (CPI) candidate from Dharmapha Tilla village in South Tripura on April 10.
DESPITE counter-insurgency operations by a joint command comprising the Army, the paramilitary forces and the police, Tripura continues to be in the grip of militancy.
The rise of strident regionalism and militancy among Tripura's tribal people seems to be pushing the TUJS, the State's main tribal party since the mid-1960s, to the sidelines.
www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1709/17090460.htm   (2271 words)

  
 A victory at gun-point
The Front's performance in the 1995 elections to the Council was by far the most emphatic, when it won all but one of the 24 seats to which elections were held.
The NLFT allegedly abducted relatives of the candidates of the Left parties, killed their supporters and burnt the houses of non- tribal people (Frontline, May 12, 2000).
NLFT insurgents also chipped in, preventing many of the supporters of rival parties from exercising their franchise.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/fline/fl1711/17110390.htm   (1378 words)

  
 Constitution of National Liberation Front Of Tripura
To send observers or participants delegates to national and international seminars, conferences or training programmes and to improve the channel of communication for National Liberation in alliance with other armed revolutionary organisations of the oppressed aboriginal nationalities of the world through discussion, publication of books and journals and other such media.
With a view to free the Borok Nation from the socio-political and economic exploitation, oppression, suppression and neo-colonisation shall be set up an organisation which through village mobilisation and indoctrination classes inspirit and instill nationalism and socio-politico and economic consciousness among the illiterate, uneducated and ignorant Borok people of Twipra.
The jingoist NLFT is firmly bent on continuing its strive to promote harmony, modesty, holiness, meekness and the spirit of common brotherhood among the comradesin-arms as well as the outfit is pledge to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of all the members of the party.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/tripura/documents/papers/nlft_const.htm   (3959 words)

  
 Terror on the rise in Tripura
In the late 1980s, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was raised as the Tripura National Liberation Front and was considered a small group armed with tribal weapons like bows and arrows and a few firearms, the most modern of them being the century-old Lee-Enfield.303 bolt-action rifles, still held by State police forces.
The NLFT is reportedly aligned with the Indigenous National Party of Tripura (INPT) and the Congress.
Both the NLFT and the ATTF are having internal problems, one of which is their cadres' surrendering to the security forces (SFs).
www.hvk.org /articles/0903/297.html   (754 words)

  
 Assam & The North-East : Women & Children 2000
AGARATALA, Oct 29: The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura has bounced back with their brutality as the impact created by the achievements of security forces are fizzling out speedily.
In another incident, suspected militants of the United Bengali Liberation Front of Tripura attacked two houses and hacked to death three tribal
In a separate incident, another NLFT militant Radha Reang was lynched by local tribals in Sripur village in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh bordering Tripura on September 21.
www.axom.faithweb.com /women   (14462 words)

  
 Chronology
Liberation Front of Tripura from Paharpur in South Tripura on 25 September.
September 8, 1999: Tripura observed a dawn-to-dusk bandh to protest against increasing insurgent activities in the state and abduction of 16 government employees by NLFT militants on the 6th.
Meanwhile, the NLFT leadership denied responsibility of the recent incidents of arson and accused the All- Tripura Tiger Force and its fringe groups for the burning of the houses.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/indtripchro.htm   (13632 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
Three Tripura State Rifles jawans were today killed and four injured, three of them critically, in an ambush by National Liberation Front of Tripura insurgents at Naraynabari, 35 kms from here, police said.
The programme is part of the national urban renewal mission, a major initiative announced in the budget for which Rs 5500 crore has been set aside.
Both the front Government and the KMC are drawing up multi-crore grandiose plans for development projects which include parks, flyovers, jogging tracks and shopping malls while some projects have been completed.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/05apr26/national.htm   (4837 words)

  
 5 killed, 8 injured in NLFT attack in Tripura
Agartala: At least five persons including a woman and a child were killed and eight others of whom two were teenaged girls injured in an attack carried out by the insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) at Jagabandhupara in Tripura's Dhalai district early on April 8.
The Tripura state Rifles have launched a combing operation in the area to nab the culprits, police said.
In an ambush by NLFT ultras on March 29, seven persons including five jawans of Railway Protection Force were killed at Sindhukumarpara, also in Dhalai district.
news.indiainfo.com /2003/04/08/08nlft.html   (215 words)

  
 Christian Aggression
A District Court in Tripura today sentenced a National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militant to death after finding him guilty in a massacre of 15 villagers in West Tripura in February 1997.
America is largely a Christian nation and 72 per cent of its people think that their president should have strong religious belief, but still the majority want the chruch to stay away from politics.
NRI leader lord Navnit Dholakia, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, has expressed concern over desecration of sacramental objects by religious fanatics, citing the example of Christian fanatics vandalising a Hindu temple.
www.christianaggression.org   (1010 words)

  
 17 Indian Army jawans killed, 4 injured in Tripura ambush - Irna
Insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan faction) today ambushed two vehicles of the paramilitary Territorial Army killing 17 army jawans and injuring four at Dangabari in south Tripura district.
A police spokesman told IRNA that a group of 20 militants belonging to the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura attacked three vehicle of an Indian Army convoy at Dangabari, a village about 80 kms from here, earlier today.
The militants attacked the convoy with grenades, killing 13 on the spot and injuring eight, four of which succumbed to their injuries as they were brought to Amarpur hospital.
www.irna.com /en/news/view/line-17/0412280599143530.htm   (311 words)

  
 Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
The same is the case with HNLC (Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council) and ANVC (A?Chik National Volunteers Council) in Meghalaya, NLFT (National Liberation Front of Tripura) in Tripura and HPCD (Hmar People?s Convention [Democrat]) in Mizoram.
It has links with Hynnilwtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) and A?chik National Volunteers Council (ANVC) of Meghalaya, National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam, National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), A?Chik Liberation Matgrik Army (ALMA) in the Garo hills, and Hmar People?s Convention (HPC) of Mizoram.
Its aim is, thus, to turn its war against the Indian state into a war of the nationalities of the region.
www.ipcs.org /ipcs/databaseIndex3.jsp?check=4   (1765 words)

  
 Pornographic terrorism - Sepia Mutiny
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed in December 1989 for the purpose of seceding from India in order to create an independent Christian fundamentalist state of Tripura.
the maharaja of tripura explicitly invited bengali hindus to develop his state in the late 19th century.
Rebels in India& north-eastern state of Tripura are making pornographic films to raise money for their separatist campaign, officials say.
www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/002113.html   (3866 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast
The army is planning a concerted counter-insurgency offensive in Assam and Tripura to “finish off” the outlawed Ulfa and “neutralise” the National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan) and the All Tripura Tiger Force.
The truce between the National Liberation Front of Tripura NLFT (Nayanbasi), the Union home ministry and the Tripura gov...
Tripura no to rebel plea for CM post
www.telegraphindia.com /1041018/asp/northeast/index.asp   (206 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> India identifies 99 terrorist camps in Bangla
The training camps, whose list has been prepared by the Indian security agencies, includes 25 run by the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), 20 run by All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), 18 by National Socialists Council of Nagaland- Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM), the sources said.
The areas pinpointed to show existence of these camps are Naikhongchari, Alikadam and Ruma in Bandarban district, Kaukhali, Nanirchar, Baghaichari and Dighinala in Rangamati district, Kamalganj and Srimangal in Moulvibazar district and Chunarughat in Hobiganj, they said.
New Delhi: Notwithstanding repeated denials by Bangladesh, India has identified "99 training camps" for North East insurgents in that country and a list pinpointing the locations has been handed over to Dhaka for action, official sources said.
news.indiainfo.com /2002/11/04/04camps.html   (179 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Cop killed in NLFT attack on police camp in Tripura
Agartala: A police constable was killed and four others were injured when insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) attacked a police camp at Maithulungbari in South Tripura district on April 4.
Among the four injured, three were admitted to the Tripura Sundari district hospital where their condition was critical.
Police said a group of about 25 NLFT insurgents, clad in olive green uniform and armed with sophisticated weapons, raided the camp of the Special Police Officers (SPO) at Maithulungbari, a remote tribal hamlet, at about 04:00 hours (IST).
news.indiainfo.com /2003/04/04/04nlft.html   (204 words)

  
 Northeast : HindustanTimes.com
A National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) insurgent was killed in an encounter with security forces at Naitongcherra in Dhadai district.
In a bizarre role reversal, students of a school in Tripura taught a lesson to their teachers for bad behaviour by locking them up for a day.
Security has been beefed up in Tripura in view of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the state on Saturday.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/7457_0,000800050007.htm   (225 words)

  
 NORTH EAST INDIA
The two main separatist groups in Tripura are the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF).
Nagmanlal Halam, the secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura.
The NLFT has warned members of the tribal community that they may be attacked if they do not accept its Christian agenda (*1).
www.hinduhumanrights.org /ethnictripura.htm   (1518 words)

  
 A violent agenda
The victims were Bengalis and Hindi-speaking Biharis and the killers were tribal extremists belonging to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
The tribal militants of Tripura, who belong to either the NLFT or the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), have persistently followed a policy of ethnic cleansing.
Describing the insurgency in northeastern India as a problem of "national security", Manik Sarkar said that a delegation of Chief Ministers from the region had met Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee last year in this connection.
www.flonnet.com /fl1903/19030430.htm   (1510 words)

  
 The Telegraph - North East
Agartala, Feb. 14: Militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura yesterday shot dead a senior leader of Gana Mukti Parishad, the CPM tribal front, in Dhalai district.
The non-tribal villages of Emra Pasha under Fatikroy Assembly constituency of North Tripura continued to be tense over the abduction of the 11 members of a folk theatre group by NLFT militants on February 2.
Quoting delayed reports, police sources said NLFT militants stormed the residence of local CPM tribal leader Ashwini Chakma in Bijay Karbaripara village under Chhawmanu police station at 1 pm.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030215/asp/northeast/story_1672875.asp   (216 words)

  
 Striking at will
On August 20 members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) ambushed a truck carrying jawans of the Tripura State Rifles from the hill town of Takarjala, about 35 km from Agartala, killing 20 of them on the spot and injuring five.
GOING by the nature and method of insurgency operations in Meghalaya, it is suspected that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) had a hand in the killing of the non-tribal civilians on August 13 in West Garo Hills.
The bodies of jawans of the Tripura State Rifles, after the ambush by insurgents on August 20.
www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1918/19180310.htm   (1161 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
Founding Philosophy: The Borok National Council of Triupra (BNCT) is a splinter organization that broke off from the larger Tripuran separatist group, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), in September 2000.
Historically, the NLFT/BNCT have focused their attacks on the Left Front while the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), their rival, has attacked members and allies of the Congress Party.
All of Tripura’s separatist groups retain bases across the porous India-Bangladesh border, and analysts suggest that effective border management will be a crucial step toward combating the state’s violent insurgency.
www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3566   (412 words)

  
 The Assam Tribune online
Among the militant groups are the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB).
The ‘Solidarity Statement’ called on the people to boycott the Republic Day and also to prevent any such celebration from being held in the region.
They have also called a general strike on that day.
www.assamtribune.com /jan2403/at05.html   (204 words)

  
 outlookindia.com
In a fresh incident, a group of insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided the Moharcherr market and adjoining area under Kalyanpur police station of West Tripura district tonight and gunned down ten persons and injured four others including an woman, police said.
Earlier, the members of the All Tripura Tiger Force, accompanied by 40 tribal collaborators raided Satchhari, a border village in West Tripura district and set fire to ten houses before opening fire, DIG (Range), A K Shukla said after a visit.
In another incident, suspected NLFT militants shot dead a couple, Nilemesh Pal and his wife Alpana at Radhanagar village in North Tripura district in the wee hours, the police said.
www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=140206   (290 words)

  
 The Hindu : Front Page : NLFT militants kill 8 in Tripura
AGARTALA: Suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militants attacked Brindabanghat village in West Tripura district and killed eight persons, including four women and two children, and simultaneously assaulted a Special Police Officer's camp in a planned assault.
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The insurgents first attacked a SPO camp in the area and exchanged fire with the personnel, the police said.
www.thehindu.com /2005/09/26/stories/2005092604291300.htm   (182 words)

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