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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Tripura<br />
by the NLFT on 18 October 1998. 21<br />
Even the children were not spared.<br />
On 4 August 2004, alleged members<br />
of the ATTF attacked the house of local<br />
CPI(M) leader Madhusudhan Debbarma<br />
and kidnapped his daughter, son and<br />
nephew at gun point. The ultras later killed<br />
all the three children at a nearby jungle.<br />
Police recovered bodies of two of the three<br />
victims. 22<br />
On 9 November 2004, one Rajendra<br />
Debbarma, a resident of Dushki village<br />
was <strong>for</strong>ced by alleged members of the<br />
ATTF at gunpoint to accompany them as<br />
guide into the interior areas of the village<br />
<strong>for</strong> extortion. After moving out of the<br />
village, Mr Debbarma was hacked to<br />
death. 23<br />
On 11 December 2004, alleged<br />
members of the NLFT members <strong>report</strong>edly<br />
shot dead Usharani Debbarma and her<br />
daughter Rina Debbarma on the spot. 24 On<br />
12 December 2004, a tribal villager<br />
Manilal Debbarma of Damdom village<br />
was shot dead by cadres of NLFT-BM at<br />
Maipara under Fatikroy police station of<br />
North Tripura district. The deceased along<br />
with five other villagers had gone to<br />
Maipara to collect incense sticks. NLFT<br />
members suddenly appeared and fired<br />
indiscriminately at them killing Manilal on<br />
the spot. The other four managed to flee<br />
from the scene. 25<br />
On 24 December 2004, Rabindra<br />
Debbarma, tea garden manager was shot<br />
dead by suspected members of the<br />
National Liberation Front of Tripura<br />
(NLFT-BM) at Bhavanipara under<br />
234<br />
Srinagar police station. The alleged NLFT<br />
members raided the house of Rabindra<br />
Debbarma, manager of a local tea estate<br />
and took him out from his room and fired<br />
from point blank range. He died on the<br />
spot. 26<br />
Even the mentally challenged persons<br />
were not spared. On the night of 9 August<br />
2004, a mentally retarded tribal civilian<br />
was killed by suspected members of the<br />
All Tripura Tiger Force at Sonai village in<br />
Sadar (North) subdivision. 27<br />
Non-tribal victims<br />
At around 10:30 pm on 13 March<br />
2004, four members, including two<br />
children, of a family of one Anil Deb, a<br />
supporter of the ruling CPI-M, were shot<br />
dead at Lembucherra under Kamalpur<br />
police station in Dhalai district. The armed<br />
opposition group members broke open the<br />
door of the house and started firing from<br />
their automatic weapons killing Anil Deb’s<br />
sons Animesh (5) and Abhijit (8), wife<br />
Karabibala and mother-in-law Laxmi Deb<br />
on the spot. Their house was also set on<br />
fire. 28<br />
On 19 March 2004, the armed groups<br />
killed five non-tribal labourers and injured<br />
two others in an attack on the Durga<br />
brickfield in Champaknagar area under<br />
Jirania police station of Sadar subdivision<br />
in West Tripura district. 29<br />
On 7 June 2004, a group of alleged<br />
NLFT (BM) members <strong>report</strong>edly raided<br />
the house of Tarani Debnath, the Pradhan<br />
(village headman) of Kulai Gram<br />
Panchayat at Ranratan Para under