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It's
their War Too 
Guwahati, Assam
"I am an Assamese first," says 22-year-old Bolin
Mech. "But if there is anything I am after that, it is Indian. That's what Kargil has
taught me." A member of ULFA's 28 Battalion, Mech was trained in the camps of
Myanmar. Last week he was on his way to ULFA's Bhutan hideouts. He had been told he would
soon be sent to Kargil to fight from the Pakistani side. Then he heard of the martyrdom of
three Assamese soldiers in Kargil. He walked out of ULFA. "I couldn't fire at my own
people."
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