Assam: ULFA wants to protect Kaziranga rhinos with people
By K. Anurag
Rediff
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Guwahati - Recovery of two more rhino carcasses sans horn
from two separate ranges of Kaziranga�National Park, has
triggered another round of�public protest in the state
over the failure of the authority to protect the precious
one-horned rhinos.
With the recovery these two carcasses on Friday, the
number of rhinos poached inside the�national park so far
this year has gone up to 14. Carcass of one rhino was
located at�
Kanchanjuri under Bagori Range of the Park while the
other was recovered from Agartoli Range.
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent
on Saturday decried the failure of the�incumbent Assam
government to prevent killing of one-horned rhinos in the
KNP despite its�tall claim over enhanced deployment of
forces armed with sophisticated weapons.
The ULFA hawks in an e-mailed statement to the media
called upon the people of Assam demand�withdrawal of all
forces from KazirangaPark for their failure to protect
the rhino and�demanded that the responsibility of
protection of Kaziranga resources should be handed over
to�fringe area villagers.
The ULFA faction stated that it would cooperate with
villagers in�protecting the rhino and other resources of
the park. �The people of Assam have no other option but
to press for withdrawal of all government�forces engaged
for protection of KazirangaPark resources and entrust the
responsibility to�the people living in villages in the
fringe area around the national park.�
"In such a case,�the ULFA will solidly cooperate with the
people not only in keeping poachers at bay but also
rooting out poachers for good,� the ULFA statement said.
The outfit claimed that it had already apprised the
people of Assam about the routes taken�by rhino poachers
to enter Kaziranga Park long back. �Still those routes
have remained�unmanned raising suspicion about
involvement of a section of senior forest official and
staff�behind unabated rhino poaching in the Park,� it
stated.
�Arrests of one or two rhino poachers occasionally by the
authorities in KazirangaPark is�mere eyewash as the real
poachers are continuing with killing of rhinos under the
patronage�of certain powerful quarters,� the outfit
stated.
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