GUWAHATI, Nov 27: The Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) today announced a unilateral ceasefire from December 1, 2009 to March 1, 2010 in a bid to get a positive response from the government. Earlier also, the Karbi outfit had announced a similar ceasefire, but its term expired without any positive response from the government.
Giving this information to The Sentinel over telephone, KLNLF publicity secretary Jijak Dera said: “We have taken this decision for the sake of peace in Karbi Anglong. We want a political solution to the problems afflicting the hill district. Ours is not a problem of unemployment, but a political problem that needs to be solved politically. We appeal to all MPs and MLAs of the State to help bring back peace in Karbi Anglong.”
Dera said: “Even if the government disarms us, our movement will continue. There is no division in the rank and file of the outfit on the issue of laying down arms before entering into a ceasefire agreement with the government as reported in the media. If the government assures us of solving our problems politically, we are ready to deposit our arms. We have a cadre strength of about 300, and we have asked our cadres now staying in Manipur and Meghalaya to return to Karbi Anglong.”
Dera said that the meeting between two KLNLF leaders with Additional DGP (SB) Khagen Sarma and other top-level police officials on September 10 this year had had no discussion on political solution to the problems afflicting the Karbis. “Our discussion was mainly on ceasefire,” he added. THE SENTINEL
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