Insurgency and Violation of Human Rights in Assam: A Study of ULFA

Abstract

Insurgency is an organized armed struggle by a section of local people against the state usually with foreign support to achieve certain goals. India's North East Region has been weighed down by insurgencies since independence in 1947. Most violent amongst the armed movement had been the Naga National Council in 1950 and today NSCN (IM). States like Assam, Manipur also witnessed armed organized violence since 1960s and 1970s. The state of Assam has been under the grasp of insurgency for more than three decades. Insurgency began in Assam with the birth of United Liberation Front of Assam on 7 April, 1979 by some radical Assamese youth to fight against the “Indian Government” with the ultimate goal to achieve sovereign Assam. The insurgency groups of Assam had been involving in violent activities from time to time which had a enormous impact on the socio-economic life of people in Assam. This

paper tries to make an analysis the impact of insurgency on socio-economic life of people and violation of human rights in Assamese society based on secondary data.