Every time cadres of an organisation surrender -be it orchestrated, coerced or voluntary- it is usually the outfit too which stands to gain a lot. A surrender by particular cadres is an act of purification. The doves are purged out, and the hawks remain. Those who stick to the guns are inevitably die-hards who are committed to their cause, whatever it might be. For them, the means and the ends are all that matter. Not so much in the case of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Those who...