Tapan Baruah
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16 February 1970
Tapan Baruah | |
|---|---|
| Born | Madan Das 16 February 1970 Nalbari, Assam, India |
| Died | 20 May 2002 (aged 32) Tinsukia, India |
| Other names | Jayanta Handique |
Tapan Baruah (Assamese: তপন বৰুৱা) (borne: Madan Das) was the first Commander of 28th Battalion of ULFA. Killed on 20 May 2002, Tapan Baruah was widely known as a skilled hardcore militant in guerrilla warfare in the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom.[1][2][3][4][5]
According to conflict analysts Tapan Baruah was trained in Kachin and Afghanistan.[6][7]
Born on 16 February 1972, Madan Das joined the ULFA in 1988 while studying at Nalbari College. He studied at the Debiram Pathsala High School in Nalbari district, and was 1986 HSLC pass out of the school. Tapan Baruah attended Nalbari College for his pre-university course but didn't attend the exam and joined the ULFA. After joining ULFA, he became a close aide of the outfit's Commander-in-Chief Paresh Baruah. Tapan Baruah was soon promoted as one of the dreaded commanders. In 1998, he was assigned as the commander of the 28th Battalion of the outfit.[10] With his politeness Tapan was popular in his locality before he joined the outfit.[11][12]
Major assassination
Tapan Baruah and Drishti Rajkhowa are believed in involvement in the bombing & killing of Assam Minister Nagen Sharma in 2000.[13]
In 2001, the then Assam's Director-general of police Harekrishna Deka, said in an interview that the killings in upper Assam had a clear command of Tapan Baruah, while the killings in lower Assam were commanded by Raju Baruah.[14]