Ulfa seeks US help to end Assam insurgency
Indo-asian News Service, Guwahati
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has sought the intervention of the US - which calls it a terrorist organisation - to bring an end to more than 25 years of insurgency in India's northeastern state of Assam.The Ulfa, in a letter addressed to US President George W Bush, said the people of Assam and other northeastern states were being subjected to military repression in the name of countering insurgency. "We sincerely believe that the United States is the only country that can use its influence to bring about a satisfactory solution to the Assam-India conflict and therefore, appeal for Your Excellency's intervention in the matter of resolving the conflict," Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said in the letter, a copy of which was received on e-mail by the agency.
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