The Kamtapur Liberation Organisation ( KLO) is a militant organisation based in

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whose objective is to Separate the

Kamtapur Kamtapur is an autonomous area in the Assam state of India administered by the Kamatapur Autonomous Council. History Kamatapur emerged as a sovereign state in the middle of the 13th century, and it continued through fluctuating levels of prosp ...

nation from

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...

and

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. The proposed state is to comprise six districts in

and four contiguous districts of

which are

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, North and South

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and Malda,

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and

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districts in Bihar, and

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. The KLO was formed to address problems of the

Koch Rajbongshi people The Rajbanshi, also Rajbongshi and Koch-Rajbongshi, are peoples from Lower Assam, North Bengal, eastern Bihar, Terai region of eastern Nepal, and Bhutan who have in the past sought an association with the Koch dynasty. Today, they speak va ...

such as large-scale unemployment, land alienation, perceived neglect of

Kamtapuri language Rangpuri is an eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in northern West Bengal, western Goalpara of Assam in India and Rangpur Division in Bangladesh. Many are bilingual in Bengali and Assamese in their respecti ...

, identity, and grievances of economic deprivation.South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) on KLO
''satp.org''.

History

The beginning of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) can be traced to the attempts of certain members of the

belonging to the All Kamtapur Students Union (AKSU) to organise an armed struggle for a separate

nation. For this purpose, they approached the

United Liberation Front of Asom The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) (Assamese: সংযুক্ত মুক্তি বাহিনী, অসম) is an armed separatist organisation operating in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. It seeks to establish an indep ...

(ULFA). The KLO came into existence on December 28, 1995.

Leadership and organisation

Tamir Das alias Jibon Singha is the chairman of the KLO. He was arrested in October 1999 but regained control over the outfit after he was released by the

Assam Police The Assam Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Assam in India. A regular police force was initiated in Assam by the British after the Treaty of Yandaboo to maintain the law and order. It functions under the Department of Home Af ...

in a bid to make the other KLO cadres surrender. Milton Burman alias Mihir Das is the second in command of the outfit.

References

External links

About KLO at SATP
{{Terror outfits 1995 establishments in Assam Politics of Assam Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist Organisations based in Assam Organisations designated as terrorist by India Left-wing militant groups in India National liberation movements 1999 establishments in Assam

History

Leadership and organisation

See also

References

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