SILCHAR: Four guerrilla groups in northeastern India the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) the United Nationalist Liberation Front (UNLF), the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have formed a joint command called the Indo Burma Revolutionary Front (IBRF) to launch a coordinated movement in the Border States.
The documents that revealed a plan to this effect were recovered from three members of the PLA arrested at Chandikhira village in Assam’s Karimganj district on June 28 while they were on their way to Bangladesh.
The declaration signed at Imphal, capital of Manipur state, on May 22, stated that the IBRF would “build up a united struggle on the land between India and Burma and unite the tribals to achieve an independent country.”
The declaration was signed by A. Rajkhowa, the chairman of ULFA, S.S. Khaplang, the chairman of NSCN and Yaima the general secretary of UNLF. There was however no signature of the PLA leader.
The Karimganj police Superintendent Basanta Kumar Borpurjari, told newsmen at Karimganj that during interrogation Birbal Singh one of the three arrested men confessed that he underwent training in a PLA camp in Burma early this year and was then sent to Bangladesh for advanced training. Birbal Singh said he stayed in a PLA camp in Sylhet area located at Bhanugachi for three nights and then returned to Imphal and was asked to escort the two new recruits. All of them were captured a night before their planned trip to Bangladesh, Borpurjari said.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 13, 1990
