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India Today,  July 19, 1999
July 19, 1999


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Guwahati, Assam
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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