Before the euphoria created on ceremonial release of jailed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) leaders die down, the victims of Ulfa violence has started questioning the government about their rights to justice.
The Ulfa cadres chanting slogans of Ulfa jindabad and waving flags of the banned outfit has shaken the confidence of innocent civilians who lost their close ones in militant violence. Padmeswar Borgohain, who lost his teenaged daughter Manashi in Dhemaji bomb blast on Independence Day in 2004, wondered whether the government was playing with the sentiments of the families of those who lost their lives by not punishing the guilty even after seven years of the incident. He asserted that those involved in the killing of women and children must be punished.
Dipen Saikia, who lost his two young daughters Aruna and Rupa, is still waiting to see the culprits punished. Talking to this newspaper over telephone from Dhemaji recently, he said, “Those involved in the killing in Dhemaji must be punished.”
He said that they are frustrated as the police has not been able to file the chargesheet in the case. “We are still waiting for justice,” he added.
Bhaskar Gogoi, who lost his wife Namita Gogoi, alleged that the families of the victims of the Dhemaji blast were neglected.
“Now it’s the responsibility of the civil society and government to decide, is it right to treat the terrorist leaders like hero?,” said one of the blast victims adding that the families who lost their children in the Dhemaji blast are yet to come in terms with the blast that killed their children.