What They Want Is Peace In Tinsukia

Don’t Give Communal Colour To Our Loss, Say, Families Of Five Victims.

- Rahul Karmakar

Family members of five men, killed by suspected extremists near Tinsukia on Thursday, have urged political parties and NGOs representing diffierent communities not to give a communal colour to their loss.

The Assam police meanwhile said the “cold­blooded murder” had the signs of having been committed by the outlawed faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom, ULFA ­Independent, which opposes talks with the government.

“I have lost a brother. I don’t want Assam to shut down over our loss and create bad blood that could take the life of somebody else’s brother or son or husband,” Subal Namasudra, the elder brother of Dhananjay Namasudra, one of the victims, said.

The 22­-year-­old Dhananjay was one of the five men of Bisonimukh­-Kherbari, about 45 km from Tinsukia, gunned down by six masked men in military fatigues.

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