Fissures within the outlawed Dima Halam Daogah, also called the Black Widow, have come to the fore after the arrest of some its senior cadres in Shillong last month.
SHILLONG: Fissures within the outlawed Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Garlosa faction), also called the Black Widow, have come to the fore after the arrest of some its senior cadres in Shillong last month.
Police investigating the eight DHD(J) rebels arrested here on October 14 revealed that the cadres were from a run- away group. They were believed to be here to purchase arms for their splinter group.
The break-away group, police said, is led by Action Dimasa, the third in the hierarchy of the Black Widow.
However, the group was arrested before they could go ahead with their plans of floating a new outfit. A joint team of Assam and Meghalaya Police is investigating the case.
A senior Assam Police official said that Action Dimasa is suspected to be the man behind the killing of one of the wives of the group's chief Jewel Garlosa in August somewhere near Maibong in the borders of NC Hills and Kari Anglong districts of Assam.
Since then he was been on the run and Garlosa was looking to eliminate him the moment he is spotted, the police said.
The rift within the ranks of the group foretells a third split in the DHD, which is an offshoot of the erstwhile Dimasa National Security Force (DNSF), which had surrendered en mass in 1995, except for its self-styled commander-in- chief Jewel Garlossa, who subsequently launched the DHD.
In 2004, Pranab Nunisa, the former commander-in-chief of the group and the head of its armed wing, the Dima National Army, took over the command of DHD by ousting its president Jewel Garlosa on charges of anti-DHD activity.
Garlosa then subsequently formed a separate outfit in 2003, Black Widows, which also has a private army.
The Black Widow, known to have links with Pakistan-based ISI, NSCN-IM and the Nationalist Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), is the most dreaded rebel group in NC Hills and Karbi Anglong districts.
The declared objective of the rebel group is to create a separate state of 'Dimaraji' for the Dimasa ('sons of the great river') tribe, comprising Dimasa-dominated areas of the North Cachar Hills and Karbi Anglong districts and parts of Dimapur district in Nagaland.
The group was behind the killing former Chief Executive Member of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, Purnendu Langthasa and former executive member of the Council, Nindu Langthasa at Langlai Hasnu village in the NC Hills district on June 4. Both were candidates of the ruling Congress party for the upcoming Council election.
Ahead of the ensuing council elections in NC Hills, the group has also triggered a series of violence, killing seven CRPF troopers, two policemen, a Congress candidate for the coming council polls and a civilian in the past ten days.
Additional forces have been deployed in the NC Hills district of Assam for the council polls due on Nov 26 and Dec 1, even as the police fears the rift in the outfit could mean more sabotage activities in and around the election time.
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