Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), a forum of nationalist citizens in northeast India, deplores the execution of two Assamese youths by the separatist armed militant outfit with the allegation of spying for Assam police and demands the governments, both in Dispur and New Delhi, to take a serious note out of its implication. The forum also urged the mainstream media outlets, especifically the news channels, not to glorify the United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) for its illogical actions.
Mentionable is that the banned outfit claimed on Saturday morning that it had punished two of its young cadres with capital punishments. In a statement sent to media houses, the Ulfa(I) stated that their judicial organ found Sanjiv Sarma and Dhanjit Das guilty of spying for the police and hence both of them were executed in their hideouts. Both Sanjiv (hailing from Baihata Chairali) and Dhanjit (from Barpeta) were new recruits of the outfit. The Ulfa(I) asserted that both the victims confessed their crimes (of spying) and so they were pronounced as guilty in the trial held in the first week of May 2022. Ulfa (I) military chief Paresh Barua, while speaking to some city-based satellite news channels, asserted that the crime of Sanjiv and Dhanjit was unpardonable under the outfit’s constitution. So they were punished by the judicial council and accordingly executed on Saturday morning, he added. The outfit also released two video clippings where Sanjiv and Dhanjit confessed their crime of secretly working for the police and asserted that Ulfa (I) is a revolutionary organization (not a terror outfit).
“Both the victims read out the lines definitely under the gun point. Looking at their eyes, anyone can realize it. But shockingly the news channels continue telecasting the videos as if the Ulfa(I) did nothing wrong with punishing both the Assamese youths,” said the PPFA statement, adding that the State government (precisely the police department) should take the matter very seriously. For any reason, no one should be allowed to take someone’s life under the verdict of a kangaroo court of militants and it must not be hyped by the local media outlets. PPFA also appeals to the conscious people of Assam to raise their voices for justice to the victims and stand against the murder of any individual in pursuit of a so-called movement for a separate homeland for Assamese.