ULFA ( United Liberation Front of Assam), an insurgent group active in Indian state of Assam, had been fighting for independent Assam since 1979. During this period, it had got almost 80% of its top leaders arrested by Indian security forces and are lodged in Guwahati ( state Capital of Assam). But Paresh BArua, the self styled ‘commander-in-chief’ of ULFA’s military wing has been absconding and without his arrest or surrender, ULFA is considered to be powerful enough to disturb peace in Assam.

Indian government has been trying to engage ULFA for negotiation for long time now. ULFA is one of the few insurgent groups in North East India, which has not come to negotiation table with Indian government even for once. Though there have been ceasefire many times before between ULFA and Indian security forces, but there was never any negotiation between them.

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Finally, convicted killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was the founding president of Bangladesh, were hanged at 1AM on 27th January 2010. Mr Rahman was killed in 1975, just four years after leading Bangladesh to independence from Pakistan.

Here is the time line :
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North-East India’s powerful rebel group NSCN(IM) ( National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Isak Muivah) has recently declined “invitation” from Indian government for next round of peace talks. The Naga group declined on the ground that the peace talk invitation came from ministry of home affairs ( MHA) but not PMO ( Prime Minister’s Office) of Indian union government.

As per report published on Assam Tribune, an old and prestigious English news paper published from Guwahati Assam, home ministry had invited NSCN(IM) recently for next round of peace talks. But NSCN leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Th Muivah, have declined the invitation and accused Indian government of not honoring bilateral agreement where any peace talks was supposed to be initiated by PMO, not MHA.

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It is reported that Arbinda Rajkhowa, the chairman of ULFA ( United Liberation Front of Assam) in Bangladesh on 1st Dec 2009. ULFA was established in April 1979 at historic Sibsagar by Arbinda Rajkhowa, Paresh Barua and many other Assamese youths to liberate Assam from India and they have been operating various terrorist activities since.

Indian Army started operation against ULFA in 1989 which was preceded by dismissing AGP ( Assam Gana Parishad). It is rumoured that, the dismissal and subsequent Army action was followed by ULFA’s large scale extortion notice to various tea estates in upper Assam.
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Recent news from India depicts Indian diplomatic success in its eastern border. India has been trying to put pressure on both Bangladesh and Myanmar ( Previously known as Burma) for acting against anti-India separatist groups like ULFA(United Liberation Front of Assam), NSCN ( National Socialist Council of Nagaland) etc for long time now.

Finaly, Myanmar has started acting against NSCN, ULFA camps in it northwest part of the where NSCN ( Khaplang Group) has been running few camps for both themselves and ULFA. The terrain is very harsh for both defence forces as well as the insurgent groups. But still Burmese Army has started operating against them can be termed as great diplomatic success by India.
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