Militant outfit anti-talk Ulfa launches Facebook page

The militant outfit anti-talk United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has joined Facebook. at a time when the Assam police has started rigorous monitoring of social media platform to check hate messages.

The militant outfit is trying to ramp up its social media presence and hence has launched a Facebook page. The proscribed outfit Ulfa (Independent), which is also known as anti-talk faction of Ulfa, has announced that it has launched the Facebook page to communicate with people and will share its routine events through it.

The Myanmar-based anti-talk Ulfa is active in upper Assam and led by self-styled commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah. “The idea to start the Facebook page was given by wellwishers. These exercises are not for leisure and we are doing them on an experimental basis.”


Assam police said it will write to Facebook directly to block the account.

Police will also take up the matter with with CERT-In, India’s national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents.

The state police have recently built Cyberdome, a hi-tech centre for cyber security. The state police has started cyber patrolling following the lynching of two youths Nilotpal Das and Abhijit Nath in the Dokmoka area of Karbi Anglong on June 8. Assam Director General of Police Kuladhar Saikia said, “While police have been stressing on human intelligence to monitor the social networking sites, we have also instituted a separate team headed by additional DGP Harmeet Singh to strengthen cyber patrolling.”