Date:14/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/14/stories/2008031455951400.htm

National

ULFA threatens to target Bhojpuri activists

Sushanta Talukdar

Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on Thursday threatened to target Bhojpuri Yuba Chatra Parishad activists for “attacking local Assamese people.”

In a statement, military spokesman of the ULFA Raju Barua alleged that the activists attacked “local Assamese residents of Doomdooma and other areas of upper Assam’s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh district during a bandh called by the Parishad on Wednesday.”

The bandh was called to protest against a bomb blast by suspected ULFA militants in the Doomdooma market on Tuesday during which a scuffle took place between bandh supporters and some autorickshaw drivers and traders.