Assam killers arrested in Meghalaya
By IANSThursday, February 10, 2011
SHILLONG - Meghalaya Police Thursday arrested two senior leaders of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) who were the prime accused in the massacre of 21 people in Assam last year.
Haijeng, “commander” of the NDFBs “eastern command” in Assams Sonitpur district and “sergeant major” Mwdwi of the “western Command” and two corporals, Nwajar and Mukul Boro, were arrested from Byrnihat on the Assam-Meghalaya border.
“All these militants have sneaked into India from Bangladesh. Police have seized mobile phones and demand notes of the NDFB from their possession,” Superintendent of Police Ri-Bhoi district, Claudia A. Lyngwa told IANS.
She said the arrested rebels were the prime accused the in the cold-blooded murder of 21 people in Assams Sonitpur district and the kidnapping of Vilas Warkare, an Indian Forest Service officer in Arunachal Pradesh last year.
Haijeng and his men belong to the anti-talks faction of the NDFB. In November last year, Haijeng and his men killed 21 people and injured many more for the death of one Bodo villager.
The anti-talks faction of NDFB has warned that for one death of a Bodo tribal they would take the lives of 20 Indian citizens.
“Its a big breakthrough and we hope that with the arrests the NDFB would be weakened further,” Lyngwa said.
