New Delhi: After the relative calm for a few months, ULFA violence against Hindi-speaking people in Assam saw a sudden upsurge again on Tuesday.
Nine people have been killed in the last two days.
Three Hindi-speaking persons were gunned down by the ULFA in Golaghat district on Wednesday and six people were killed in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts on Tuesday night.
In attacks reminiscent of its orgy of violence in January against Hindi-speaking persons that left 70 dead, two militants riding a motorcycle shot dead grocer Tankeswar Sahu and another man named Dipak Agarwal at Diksoi Tinaili in Dergaon on Wednesday evening.
Earlier in the day, the group had warned that it would award "capital punishment" to people involved in attacking demonstrators who blocked a highway to protest the killing by the army of a man mistaken to be a member of the ULFA.
Jiten Dutta, the self-styled commander of ULFA's strike force 28 battalion's "Charlie company" told media on phone that the group had identified the people behind Sunday's attacks in which five persons were killed and several injured at different places in Doomdooma revenue circle.
On Sunday, tea garden workers, angered by the disruption in the supply of rations due to the blocking of National Highway 37, attacked thousands of demonstrators who were protesting the killing of Budheswar Moran by the army, which mistook him for an ULFA militant.
Earlier this year there was a major exodus of Biharis from Assam after the ULFA gunned down over 60 Hindi-speaking people there.
(With inputs from PTI)
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