Relentless operations by Security Forces (SFs) have decimated rebel outfits like Karbi People's LiberaTiger (KPLT). "Because of Army operations, money is drying up for militants and they are now targeting remote villages for extortion," the source added. Locals, who already suffer from acute poverty and unemployment, are fed up with such atrocities. Last year, locals of Sirajuli village in Sonitpur District overpowered and apprehended a militant. A peaceful assembly election, where the Army helped civil administramaintain order, also showed that the militants' influence has declined.
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The new armed revolutionary organization, the statement maintained, “shall operate with advanced theory of revolution and with principles, ideology and policy based on solid and concrete foundation.” It further expressed “full faith” in the United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (UNLFW) and stated that it will be “always ready” to abide by the rules and regulations of the Front. “We have come closer with several like-minded armed revolutionary parties, having similar principles and ideology, of our region like Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Progressive faction of People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK-Pro), Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) and United National Liberation Front (UNLF),” it added.
The Karbi, an indigenous people of Sino-Tibetan origin of Mongoloid stock, speaking a Tibeto- Burman language, inhabit the Karbilongri, Dima Hasao (erstwhile United Mikir hills and North Cachar hills), some parts of Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal, Assam and Sylhet division of Bangladesh, the PDCK statement claimed.