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GUWAHATI, June 17 ? The ULFA today warned those responsible for ?instigating? the relatives of its members to move the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) against the outfit?s commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah. In the latest edition of its mouthpiece Freedom, e-mailed to a section of the media here, the outfit warned ?the person or the group of persons? which was instigating the kin of the ULFA members to appeal to the AHRC that they were forced to join the outfit. Recently about 200 relatives of senior ULFA leaders and cadres had complained to the Assam Human Rights Commission that Paresh...

Imphal, June 17: In a new shake up, the MSCP which is in the midst of a controversy over its move to merge with the Congress has elected Education (U) Minister and MLA from Wangkhei AC Y Erabot as the leader of the party legislature wing succeeding PHED Minister K Govindas. The election of Erabot was carried out during a joint sitting of the MSCP Central Executive Committee and Legislature Party today. The meeting was presided by party vice president L Amujao and held at the Babupara quarter of MSCP president and MP Th Chaoba at around 7 am today. The post remained vacant after Govindas...

Imphal, June 17: The report in The Imphal Free Press about the selection of four tribes of Manipur in the new list of 43 tribes to be recognized as Scheduled Tribes under the Scheduled Tribe Order, 1950, has met with mixed response from different parties. An organization called the Kuki Tribes Recognition Demand Committee, while welcoming the inclusion of "Any Kuki Tribe" into the four selected for inclusion in the ST list, strongly objected to the list of tribes in the IFP which are reportedly annoyed with their non inclusion in the ST list as independent tribes. A memorandum by the...

IMPHAL, June 16 ? The United Committee Manipur (UCM), an apex body of various voluntary organisations which spearheaded anti-ceasefire agitation last year, is all set to observe the ?Great June Uprising? on June 18 to honour the martyrs who died in the uprising. Altogether, 18 persons were killed in police firing in course of anti-ceasefire extension agitation in June and July last year. The ceasefire between the Government of India and NSCN(IM) is still in force. According to the leaders of the UCM, around 1,000 buses and other four wheelers will be pressed into service for picking up people...

GUWAHATI, June 16 ? As per the directives of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) a full-fledged human rights cell headed by an Inspector General of Police has been set up in Assam police headquarters to enquire into all cases of human rights violation by police personnel and it is expected that the cell will go a long way in improving the behaviour of the police towards common people. Inspector General of Police, Sri D K Borah, who heads the human rights cell, told The Assam Tribune that as per the NHRC guidelines, the basic objectives of the cell include monitoring of human rights...