Tripura National Volunteer Force
The Tripura National Volunteer Force was founded on November 10, 1978 under the name Tripura National Volunteers by Bijoy Hrangkhwal and comrades.
development
In the second half of the 20th century, the population structure in the former Kingdom of Tripura changed radically. The following economic and political exclusion of the original population had various causes: In order to promote the integration of the Bengali , the government supported the settlement of settled, arable immigrants on the land that the inhabitants of Tripura had used for their slash-and-burn agriculture. On average, the refugees were more educated and soon filled important positions. As the number of Bengalis grew, the political parties began to compete mainly for their votes. The demands of all autonomy movements in Tripura include the expulsion of illegal immigrants, the loss of voting rights for immigrants after 1952 and a redistribution of the country.
The TNVF fighters hid in the Chittagong Hill Tracts , where they received support from the government of (Muslim) Bangladesh . Right from the start we worked with the Mizo National Front (MNF) in Mizoram . They ambushed security forces on the one hand, and Bengali civilians on the other as a terrorist measure. Also attacked were cadres of the CPI (M) , which provided the state government from 1978-88 and from 1993 onwards. The group probably never had more than 400 fighters. Bijoy Hrangkhwal was detained from June to December 1980.
Some immigrants organized themselves in the "Amra Bengali" ("We Bengalis"), which occasionally slaughtered natives, but so far has not become a major threat.
The declared aim of the TNVF was to expel all immigrants, mostly Bengali-speaking Hindus who had fled from East Pakistan . The mainstream political parties accused them of selling out the country. The worst single outbreak of violence against the immigrants occurred in the summer of 1988 in Mandai Bazar, near the capital Agartala , where 300 Bengali died in one day, for the state the estimates for the day are over a thousand.
Binanda Jamatia founded the splinter group All Tripura People's Liberation Organization (ATPLO) in Bangladesh on December 12, 1980. Jamatia organized the kidnapping of the Hrangkhwal couple on August 13, 1982 from Kamalacharra to Bangladesh.
In 1981, Chuni Koloi and comrades split off. After a raid on the Manu police station on September 3, 1982, the group was well armed and attacked the ATPLO base in November, where they liberated Hrangkhwal. Several ATPLO fighters defected to Koloi, others surrendered to the government. The liberated Hrangkhawl resumed the fight until an agreement with the central government was signed in Delhi in 1988. 447 TNVF fighters laid down their weapons. The agreement followed the model of the one concluded with the Naga and Mizo , but it is also planned to expel illegal immigrants. Little has happened on this point. Hrangkhawal seemed satisfied with his new position as chairman of the rehabilitation commission responsible for land redistribution.
The remaining, more radical faction split in 1990 into the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA). Even after 1989, a number of dissidents found their way into the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), which fell into a large number of more or less criminal groups in the following years.
literature
- Syamal Kumar Ray; India's North-East and the Travails of Tripura; Kolkata 2003
- ↑ In 1947 93% of the 600,000 inhabitants were members of the 19 indigenous tribes . In 1981 they had become a minority at 28.5% of 2.06 million, alongside Bengali Hindus who had fled East Pakistan. Hazarika (1994), p. 124.
- ↑ cf. to demand a "Bengalistan" http://www.amrabangali.org/
- ^ Militant Groups Profile