Nagaon, Aug. 4 : The yearlong unrest in Dima Hasao might end soon as leaders of the primary troublemaker, the breakaway anti-talks faction of the Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) — Dimasa National Democratic Front (DNDF), laid down arms in a surrender ceremony jointly organised by Dima Hasao district police and the Indian army at Haflong today.
Of the 27 members of the outfit, only 19 participated in today’s ceremony, while the remaining eight had allegedly gone out of the district to chalk out a post-surrender “strategy”.
The surrendered cadres include two heavyweights — chairman Layung Dimasa and commander-in-chief Camera Dimasa.
The team laid down 17 different types of arms and ammunition, including AK-series rifles, 1,400 live ammunition and 11 grenades.
Today’s event was the biggest arms surrender ceremony in the hill district after the October 2009 surrender of the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the DHD.
“DNDF emerged as an influential rebel outfit after kidnapping a senior physician from Haflong town in October 2010. It was also behind the kidnapping of three employees of Indian Oiltanking Ltd in December 2010. We hope surrender of the cadres will end law and order problems in the district, which had continued even after DHD-J’s surrender,” Dima Hasao superintendent of police V.K. Ramisetti said.
Accompanied by Maj. Gen. Binoy Poonnen of Red Shield division, Ramisetti participated in the surrender ceremony as special guests.
As many as 10 cadres of the DHD-J, led by Bihari Dimasa, floated the DNDF immediately after the October 2009 surrender of the parent outfit. Two senior cadres — Layung and Camera — accompanied Bihari.
The trio, who originally came from the mother faction of the Dimasa rebel outfit, had joined the Jewel Garlosa faction of DHD for ideological reasons.
“We have left the path of militancy in the interest of the next generation. Now, we will launch a democratic struggle for our demand for Dimaraji”, Layung Dimasa told reporters after the surrender ceremony.
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