Kamtapur Liberation Organisation#History

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Short description|Militant group in India}}

{{Use Indian English|date=July 2015}}

{{Infobox war faction

| name = Kamtapur Liberation Organisation

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| war = Insurgency in Northeast India

| image = Flag of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation.svg

| caption = Flag of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation

| active = 1995–present

| ideology = Kamtapuri nationalism
Separatism
Socialism

| crimes = Bombings

| clans =

| leaders = Jibon Singha
Milton Burman{{POW}}
Tom Adhikary{{POW}}

| headquarters =

| area = Northeast India and West Bengal

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| predecessor =

| motives = Establish an independent state of Kamtapur

| successor =

| allies =

| allegiance = United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia

| opponents = {{flag|India}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nia.gov.in/banned_org.aspx|access-date=10 September 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322081157/http://www.nia.gov.in/banned_org.aspx|archive-date=22 March 2015|title=Banned Terrorist Organisations}}
{{flag|Bangladesh}}
{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (1996–2016)
{{flagicon image|Flag of AQIS.jpg}} al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (2016–present)

| designated_as_terror_group_by = {{Flag|India}}

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The Kamtapur Liberation Organisation ({{small|abbr.}} KLO) is a militant organisation based in Northeast India whose objective is to separate the Kamtapur nation from West Bengal and Assam. The proposed state is to comprise all districts in West Bengal and four contiguous districts of Assam which are Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North and South Dinajpur and Malda, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Dhubri and Goalpara, Kishanganj districts in Bihar, and Jhapa District in Nepal. The KLO was formed to address problems of the Koch Rajbongshi people such as large-scale unemployment, land alienation, perceived neglect of Kamtapuri language, identity, and grievances of economic deprivation.[http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/assam/terrorist_outfits/klo.htm South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) on KLO]. satp.org.