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| Rebel murder sparks Assam strike |
| Employees of a state-owned company in India's north-east have stopped work in protest against the murder of one of their officials by separatist rebel
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| INDIA
, 2-July-2007
2:55:14 AM |
| PC Ram, who was kidnapped by United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) rebels in April, was a regional director with Food Corporation of India in Assam.
His body was recovered at the weekend near the state's border with Bhutan.
The Ulfa had demanded the release of two of its top commanders in exchange for setting Mr Ram free.
But the Assam government rejected the offer and intensified efforts to track down Mr Ram.
"The Ulfa possibly killed him because the rebels holding him were badly cornered by the security forces and four of them were arrested at the weekend," said Assam's deputy police chief DK Pathak.
'Feeling unsafe'
In protest against the death of Mr Ram, more than 3,000 employees of Food Corporation of India have stopped work across India's north-eastern states.
"Mr Ram was our regional chief and if the government failed to protect him, we are all unsafe because many of our employees work in remote areas dominated by rebel groups," Taher Ahmed, general secretary of the Food Corporation of India trade union said.
Mr Ram was the third high-profile hostage to be killed by Ulfa since 1990.
In 1991, the rebels killed Russian coal expert Sergei Gritchenko after he reportedly tried to escape as he was being taken across a river.
Six years later, they killed Indian social activist Sanjay Ghose after kidnapping him from the world's largest river island Majuli in northern Assam.
Ulfa is fighting one of India's longest-running insurgencies to establish an independent homeland in Assam.
The rebels accuse Delhi of exploiting the state's natural resources while neglecting its people, who are ethnically closer to the people of Burma and China than to the rest of India.
Talks between the rebels and the Indian government broke down last September after a brief truce.
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