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Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: April 10, 2001
Agartala, April 10: A Buddhist temple
and several huts of the Chakma community were ransacked and torched by
all Tripura Tiger Force insurgents in Dhalai district of Tripura, police
said on Tuesday.
A group of ATTF insurgents raided
Taichakma village on Sunday night and ransacked and set ablaze a thatched
Buddhist temple, police said quoting delayed reports.
Villagers who tried to extinguish
the flames were severely beaten up by the ultras who then set ablaze 13
huts belonging to five chakma families, police said.
Earlier, insurgents of National
Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), which had served a notice in the hill
areas last year warning of stern action against villagers who practise
any other religion except Christianity, had on December five ransacked
a Buddhist temple and took away scriptures and the idol in Almara village
of south Tripura district. (PTI)
