The
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM)
and
United
Muslim
Liberation
Tigers
of
Assam
(MULTA)
were
among
nine
extremist
groups
currently
active
in
Assam,
the
Assam
Government
informed
the
Legislative
Assembly
on
August
6,
according
to
Indian
Express.
The
other
seven
outfits
included
the
United
Liberation
Front
of
Assam
(ULFA).
The
Assam
Forest
and
Environment
Minister
Rockybul
Hussain,
replying
on
behalf
of
Chief
Minister
Tarun
Gogoi,
stated
that
apart
from
the
nine
outfits,
the
NSCN-IM
too
was
involved
in
killing
people
in
the
State.
The
Government,
however,
did
not
have
the
exact
number
of
lethal
weapons
that
these
extremist
groups
had
in
their
possession,
Hussain
informed.
The
minister
also
informed
that
39
members
of
different
outfits,
excluding
the
HuM
and
MULTA,
had
been
killed
by
security
forces
in
the
state
between
January
2006-7.
The
outfits
together
have
killed
1,363
people
since
Gogoi
took
over
as
Chief
Minister
in
May
2001. |
