GUWAHATI, Dec 28 ? ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa has appealed to the People's Republic of China to offer safe passage to the ultras for temporary shelter in that country, reports PTI. Rajkhowa, in a letter faxed to the ?Chairman of the Peoples Republic of China? on December 25, copies of which were e-mailed to a section of the local media here today, said that of late ?we have come under massive attack of Indo-Bhutan joint forces and our combatants have been forced to retreat up to Sino-Bhutan border due to all-out air and artillery campaigns?. Rajkhowa said that at this moment ?they have no...

Dec. 28: On the run in Bhutan, Indian militants have made a dramatic appeal to China to provide ?safe passage? and ?temporary shelter?. ?At this moment, they (the cadre) have no other option but to enter the territory of the People?s Republic of China extra-legally to save their lives, negotiating sub-zero temperature and starvation.? We would like to request you and your people to permit them safe passage to your territory and temporary shelter necessary for their survival,? said a joint appeal signed by Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.

The appeal was faxed to the ?Chairman of the People?s...

Tezpur/Guwahati, Dec. 28: Ulfa leader Bhimkanta Buragohain struck a defiant note two days after making a plea for peace, saying he would await instructions from the outfit?s chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and commander-in-chief Paresh Barua on his ?future course of action?. Buragohain, in his eighties, was presumed dead until the army paraded him and three more Ulfa members before the media in Tezpur on Friday. He was produced before the additional chief judicial magistrate along with his comrades this afternoon and remanded in police custody for five days.

The veteran Ulfa member?s remark on...

Aizawl, Dec. 28: In an instance of delivering ?instant justice?, villagers in a remote area of Mizoram executed a man within hours of him raping and killing a mentally deranged housewife. A delayed report reaching here today said residents of Darlawn village in north-east Mizoram lynched Chhandama, belonging to the same village, after he admitted to the crime. The incident took place on December 24 night, marring the Yuletide festive atmosphere in the Christian village.

The report said a married woman Chhungi of the village had gone to collect firewood from the nearby forest on the day. When...

TEZPUR, Dec 28? ULFA?s political adviser and the founder of the outfit Bhimkanta Buragohain, who is presently in police custody in Sonitpur district after he alongwith four other ULFA cadres, was handed over by the Indian Army to the State Police, said that he had not surrendered before anybody including the Royal Bhutanese Army (RBA).

In an exclusive interview to The Assam Tribune, here Buragohain, popularly known as ?mama? in the rank and file of the outfit, said the attack on the North-east-based militant outfits (ULFA, NDFB and KLO) by the RBA was beyond imagination. The RBA has betrayed...