This Article is From Dec 05, 2009

No split in ULFA, says Commander-in-Chief Paresh Baruah

ULFA Commander-in-Chief Paresh Baruah has denied rift in the insurgent group in an email to media in Guwahati

Baruah also said that reports of surrender of Arabinda Rajkhowa, the group's chairman, are a divide and rule tactic.

Arabinda Rajkhowa, the Chairman of ULFA, has been in Indian custody since Wednesday.

Raju Barua, ULFA's Deputy Commander-in -Chief, was also handed over to India at the Dawki outpost in Meghalaya on Friday.

Whether Rajkhowa, one of India's most-wanted militants, surrendered or was arrested, is still unclear.  

While most senior leaders of ULFA have now either surrendered or been arrested, Paresh Baruah, remains missing. He's believed to be in Myanmar.

In recent phone calls to his cadres in Assam, Baruah ordered violence and bomb blasts to derail any peace talks.


ULFA: The men who call the shots:

  • Command-in-chief of ULFA, Paresh Barua, reported to have fled Bangladesh
  • Deputy Commander-in-Chief Raju Barua, surrenders, handed over to India
  • Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, arrested by Bangladesh, in India's custody now
  • ULFA 'foreign secretary' Sasha Choudhury, arrested in Bangladesh, in India's custody now
  • ULFA 'finance secretary' Chitraban Hazarika, arrested in Bangladesh, in India's custody now
  • Advisor Bhimkanta Buragohain & Vice-chairman Pradip Gogoi in custody
  • Central publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary & cultural secretary Pranati Deka in custody
  • Other senior leaders Bening Rabha, Ashanta Bagh Phukan, Ponaram Dihingiya of military wing missing since 2003

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