Rehabilitation of migrants ‘suicidal and anti-people’
Guwahati: The anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-Independent) has warned that it will not hesitate to use its weapons to evict illegal migrants from neighbouring countries who have settled down in Assam, which ULFA claims is causing an identity crisis among the indigenous people of the State.
In the latest edition of its mouthpiece ‘Swadhinata’ (Freedom) which has been e-mailed to the media here, the ULFA(I) led by fugitive commander-in-chief Paresh Barua has denounced both the ruling Congress in Assam and the BJP which is in power in Centre, for their stand in rehabilitating illegal Bangladeshi migrants who had to leave their country because of persecution.
The ULFA has termed the cabinet decision of Tarun Gogoi-led Congress government, in
Assam made on July 15 to rehabilitate Bangladeshi migrants who had been forced to take shelter in Assam because of persecution in their home country, as suicidal and anti-people.
The ULFA said such a surprising and so called ‘humanitarian ‘decision could only be taken by somebody who must be mentally deranged.
Meanwhile, ULFA also criticized the stand of the BJP-led government in the Centre to treat illegal Hindu migrants from Bangladesh as refugees in Assam and termed it a stand that posed serious threat to the identity of indigenous people in Assam.
Flaying both the Congress and the BJP government for having myopic and vote-bank oriented stands regarding illegal migrants coming in the state from Bangladesh , the ULFA has warned of armed action against the illegal migrants from neighbouring countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar if they were rehabilitated in Assam.
The ULFA called upon national organisations in Assam to rethink their strategy of non-violent movement against illegal migration from Bangladesh as it had now become evident, according to ULFA, that both the State and the Central government were not at all planning to detect and deport illegal migrants from Assam because of the sustained non-violent movement by them.
“Instead of expecting that the government would do anything for them, these organisations should take practical decision and take immediate action to solve the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh in order to save the indigenous people”, Swadhinata stated.