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2221the NLFT was retaliating for a United Bengali Liberation Force (UBLF) attacknearby on March 8 in which a villager was killed and six tribals were injured seriously.On April 15, the NLFT killed at least 12 villagers in Khas Kalyanpur, WestTripura. On May 4, NLFT militants shot three family members of KishoreDebbarma, an NLFT deserter. On May 15, NLFT militants killed four persons andabducted three others in west and south Tripura (see Section 1.b.). CPM sources allegethat all of the victims were CPM supporters and that the NLFT was punishingthem for voting for the CPM in the council polls. On May 19, NLFT insurgentskilled seven nontribals—including CPM workers’ family members—and set fire toseveral houses in south and west Tripura. On May 20, at least 8 persons were killedand more than 20 others were injured in Kalyanpur, west Tripura. On May 21, 15persons were killed in Teliamura and Kalyanpur in attacks on tribals by nontribals.NLFT insurgents killed 40 villagers in west Tripura on May 21, including19 nontribals who were massacred at a relief camp in Kalyanpur. On May 22, NLFTinsurgents killed three nontribals in Gandachhara. On May 25, NLFT membersraided the house of a CPM leader in west Tripura, and burned alive his 8-year-oldson. On May 26, ATTF rebels killed a tribal person and kidnaped four others (seeSection 1.b.). On May 28, the NLFT shot and killed two farmers in Raiabari. OnJune 6, ATTF ultra’s hacked a person to death in Warengtubari. On June 13, twopersons, including a paramilitary officer, were killed in an ethnic clash inTelaimura, in which a Bengali mob, angered at a killing by tribals, turned violent.On June 23, NLFT militants kidnaped and killed a person in Anandapur village.On June 26, four persons were injured in ethnic clashes between tribals and Bengalisin Teliamura. On July 9, NLFT militants shot and killed Dhirendra Roy, aCPM leader at Salema. On July 14, tribals set fire to more than 150 houses, injured3 persons, and kidnaped another in Teliamura. On July 22, rebels of the Bru NationalLiberation Front (BNLF), a group of Reang tribals, shot 12 NLFT activistsat Saikarbari. On July 25, tribal rebels killed Roman Catholic priest Victor Crastanear Bongsul village. The same day UBLF activists set 25 houses on fire in westTripura. On August 17, militants killed a villager at Panisagar and abducted threepersons from Manu (see Section 1.b.). On August 26, NLFT insurgents killed onetribal youth in Sidhai, a fisherman at Jarulbachai, and a plantation worker inNarendrapur Tea Estate. On August 27, Bengalis in Tripura State Rifles uniformshacked to death three tribal women in Durga Charan Para village. NLFT ultra’skilled a priest as he was exiting a Kali temple in Jirania on August 27 (see Section5). On November 19, NLFT members killed six Bengali settlers, including two children,in the remote Barahaldi area of Tripura; a few hours later, Bengali settlerskilled seven tribals in retaliation.In Assam, on April 9, United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) militantslined up 11 non-Karbi laborers in the Dhansari Reserve Forest in Karbi Anglongdistrict, and shot at them. (The UPDS is a Karbi radical group fighting for greaterautonomy for the Karbis, and Karbis are tribal peoples native to KarbiAnglong district.)On April 19, UPDS militants killed 11 Nepalis at East and West Umplaphervillages. On April 24, UPDS militants killed six Bihari laborers in Akhoiputua aspart of their ethnic cleansing drive in Karbi Anglong district. In April alone, theKarbis killed 29 persons. In an ambush near Haflong, Dima Halam Daoga (DHD),militants killed an executive magistrate and five others on May 18. On June 3,ULFA militants at Srijangram in Bongaigaon killed two Assam policemen. On June20, two CRPF personnel and a top People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) leaderwere killed in an encounter at Motinagar. On June 25, surrendered ULFA leaderTarun Phukan was found dead; it is believed that ULFA activists killed him atSivsagar. On July 16, UPDS activists in Karbi Anglong district shot 10 nontribals,mostly women and children. On July 18, migrant Biharis killed six Karbi villagersin Karbi Anglong. On July 26, DHD militants opened fire in a marketplace atHerangajao, killing two traders and injuring six others. On August 20, suspectedNational Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants killed Bodo Sahitya SabhaPresident Bineswar Brahma in Guwahati. On August 21, at Bijni, NDFB rebelskilled eight persons including a Peoples Democratic Front Legislator, MohiniBasumatary. On August 22, Bodo militants killed a former All Assam StudentsUnion Leader. On August 27, a man affiliated with the People’s United LiberationFront (PULF) killed a 7yearold Muslim boy in Cachar for unknown reasons, generatingprotests from Muslim organizations such as Nadwadoot Tamir and the CacharKoumi Madrassa Students’ Association. On December 7, in Sadiya, Assam, morethan 20 ULFA militants killed 28 persons after intercepting 3 trucks carrying non-Assamese, mainly Nepali settlers, from a nearby market.On June 10, unidentified militants killed noted playwright and social workerArambam Somorendra at Khurai Salanthong. On June 28, unknown assailantskilled 10 passengers in a car on the Imphal-Jiri stretch of National Highway 53.VerDate 11-MAY-2000 13:46 Sep 20, 2001 Jkt 071555 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 6601 Sfmt 6621 F:\WORK\COUNTRYR\S71555\71555.035 HINTREL1 PsN: HINTREL1