As Assam Police steps up crackdown on social media misuse, banned ULFA faction opens Facebook account

Guwahati | Friday | 15th June, 2018

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We limit our use of Facebook and it is an experiment,” the statement said. GUWAHATI: The banned Ulfa (Independent) faction led by Paresh Baruah on Thursday launched a new front in social media with a Facebook account as mean to reach out to a bigger audience.Till now the outfit’s line of communication with the people has been limited to emails or telephonic interviews to print and electronic media.This move by the Myanmar-based outfit, one of the last remaining militant group in the state, has come at a time when the Assam Police is setting up a cyber dome and cracking down on people misusing social media to spread hate messages and rumours, like the recent one about child-lifters that resulted into a barbaric lynching of two youths from Guwahati, sound engineer Nilotpal Das and his businessman friend Abhijit Nath at a remote village in Karbi Anglong on June 8.The outfit in a statement said that the idea of opening a Facebook account has given by several people and its “well-wishers.”“We will not be using the Facebook for our leisure activities but for posting routine news about our organization..