The United Liberation Front of Asom has been battling for the indepence of 26 million people in the tea and oil-rich state since 1979.Some 20,000 people have been killed in the struggle.
India's northeastern region is home to more than 200 tribes and ethnic groups and is wrecked by separatist insurgencies.
Four paramilitary troops are dead after a powerful land mine went off in India’s northeastern state of Assam. It’s believed the mine was triggered by suspected militants from the United Liberation Front of Asom… injuring more than twenty-five on Friday.
According to police, the militants targeted a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force paramilitary troops near the highway leading to Goalpara District in the state.
Around 8 a.m. a powerful remote controlled blast occurred when paramilitary personnel were returning to base after patrolling in the dense forest region in the area.
Local media reported critical injuries to ten security personnel.
The injured have been taken to a local hospital.
The United Liberation Front of Asom is a separatist group from Assam, among many other such groups in North-East India. It seeks to establish a sovereign Assam via an armed struggle in the Assam Conflict.
The ULFA is a "revolutionary political organization" engaged in a "liberation struggle" against state terrorism and economic exploitation by India for the establishment of a sovereign, independent Assam. It does not consider itself a secessionist organization, as it claims that Assam was never a part of India and as a matter of fact the Treaty of Yandaboo was signed in 1826 by General Sir Archibald Campbell on the British side, and by Governor of Legaing Maha Min Hla Kyaw Htin from the Burmese side. With the British army at Yandabo village, only 50 miles from the capital Ava, the Burmese were forced to accept the British terms without discussion.
According to the treaty, the Burmese agreed to (1) cede to the British Assam, Manipur, Rakhine (Arakan), and Taninthayi (Tenasserim) coast south of Salween river, (2) cease all interference in Cachar and Jaintia, (3) pay an indemnity of one million pounds sterling in four installments, (4) allow for an exchange of diplomatic representatives between Ava and Calcutta, and (5) sign a commercial treaty in due course.
It claims that among the various problems that the people of Assam are confronting, the problem of national identity is the most basic, and therefore it seeks to represent "independent minded struggling peoples" irrespective of race, tribe, caste, religion and nationality.
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