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ULFA calls for shutdown over leaders detention | The rebel United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has called for a 12-hour shutdown across Assam to protest the detention of two of their top leaders. Shops,
businesses and educational institutions remained closed. Most public and private
transport kept off the roads. Sashadhar Choudhury, ULFA's Foreign Secretary and
Finance Secretary Chitraban Hazarika were sent to ten-days police remand by a
court here on Saturday after Assam police claimed they had surrendered before
Border Security Force personnel in Tripura. In 2006, New Delhi had called off
a truce with the ULFA when security forces realised that the rebels used the ceasefire
to regroup. The ULFA accuses New Delhi of plundering the region's mineral and
forest resources, neglecting local economy and giving them back nothing in return.
India says the rebels have found safe havens in Bangladesh over the last two decades. |
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