The three dreaded terrorist outfits in Assam and Tripura, the People’s Democratic Council of Karbi Longri (PDCK), the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) and the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) on Monday delivered a final ultimatum to Hindi and Bengali speaking Hindus to quit Karbi-Longri (Karbi Anglong), Kamatapur and Tripura by March 31 or face the “gravest of the grave” situations.

In a joint statement issued to the media on Monday, KLO chairman Jiban Singh Koch, PDCK chairman JK Lijang and NLFT organising secretary Sengphui Borok said, “We have every right, including the right to resort to armed confrontation, to defend our Kamatapur, Karbi-Longri and Twipra and our people. Our fight is for national existence and self-defence. Therefore, we, the KLO, NLFT and PDCK, once again warn the Bengalis and Hindi speaking people to quit Kamatapur, Karbi-langri and Twipra by March 31, 2017.”

The three armed outfits also came down heavily on chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and described him as a “liar”, “multifaceted” and a “weak leader”.

“He is not able to do anything good except lying, making ridiculous commitments and delivering false promises to his own people. He had promised the people of Assam that his organisation would drive out the illegal Bangladeshis when he was in the leadership of the All Assam Students Union (AASU). But now, he supports wholeheartedly the conspiracy to rehabilitate the Hindu Bangladeshis in Assam to satisfy the central government leaders. He should respect those nine hundred martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the cause of saving Assam from immigrants and migrants,” the statement said.

“The chief minister has become the staunchest supporter of Hindu Bangladeshi rehabilitation slogan ‘Hindu Hindu Bhai Bhai’,” the statement further said.

Claiming that the “Karbi Kingdom” was never a part of Bharat, the three outfits said that the Karbi people did not have any political relation with Bharat before 1949. “It is the British and not India that invaded the Karbi country and annexed it into the erstwhile British Empire. It is a historical accident and a mistake that the Karbi Kingdom was swallowed in by the Indian Union,” it said.

“Nowadays, government of India continues to pursue a dishonest policy to suppress the Karbi and Dimasa people. They know very well that the strong identity of the Dimasa and Karbi people cannot be destroyed easily and consequently, keeping them under Indian administration for long will not be easy too,” it further said.

“Hence, India has been adopting one crooked policy after another to vapourise the strong identity of Dimasa and Karbi people. They have adopted the semi-violent policy of demographic aggression, the violent policy of killing and manipulative policy of creating social disharmony amongst indigenous people. For example, during the leadership of Indira Gandhi in 1967-71, many thousands of Bangladeshi Bengali refugees were rehabilitated in Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao and in addition to that, thousands of Hindi speaking people from mainland India were brought in to make our people a helpless minority,” the statement added.

The KLO, PDCK and NLFT also accused the BJP-led government for attempting to rehabilitate Hindu Bangladeshis in Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao to make the people weaker and more insignificant.

“Nowadays, the Dimasa and Karbi people have been victims of exploitation in every aspect of life in the hands of those outsiders. The Government of India is solely responsible for the killing more than ten thousand freedom loving people of Dimasa and Karbi communities. Communal riots have been engineered many times in all possible one-on-one combinations like Dimasa-vs-Karbi, Dimasa-vs-Hmar, Dimasa-vs-Naga, Karbi-vs-Kuki, Karbi-vs-Naga, Kuki-vs-Naga etc,” it added.

The three outfits also claimed that Pragjyotishpur, Kamrup and Kamatapur (Cooch Behar) were never parts of Bharat till August 28, 1949. They argued that the indigenous people of Tripura launched a peaceful mass movement recently on August 23, 2016 in support of their endeavour to safeguard their land and identity.

“When a peaceful, democratic and non-violent movement was going on, the Hindu Bengali refugees tortured, abused, raped, killed the innocent indigenous Borok civilians and even put innocent children to death. The heinous crimes were perpetrated in a city street in broad day light, but the government kept pin drop silence. All these incidents were pre-planned and meticulously organised by the Bengali refugee chief minister Manik Sarkar, who instigated the police, TSR and gangs of young Hindu Bengali refugee goons to assault the innocent indigenous Borok civilan with bludgeons,” the statement further added.

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