ULFA militants kill 14 in Assam

Fourteen people, all of them migrants from Bihar, were killed late on Friday night by ULFA militants at Bokajan in Assam.

Militants opened fire at a village near Bokajan killing a two-year-old child and injuring eight others.

In a third incident at Diphu in Karbi Anglong 11 people were injured in a bomb blast.

On Wednesday eight migrants from Bihar including a two-month-old baby were shot dead at Bokolia.

In the past months, ULFA's orders to its cadres have been clear - target Biharis across the state. Since January, 80 of them have been killed.

While other attacks involved IEDs and grenades, Biharis have been brutally shot one-by-one. The idea is to drive a wedge between the locals and the Bihari migrants.

But so far, it is the politicians that the locals are blaming.

''Don't we know who are the insurgents, where are the insurgents? Why hasn't the elected representative come to see us? I do not have anything against the police and the army, you are doing your job, but it is the politicians who have a nexus with the insurgents,'' said a local resident.

From Karbi Anglong to Guwahati, ULFA's striking ability is getting better, and counter insurgency measures have been grossly inadequate to contain terrorist violence.