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