Insurgency / Northeast

NEW DELHI, Dec 15 ? Bhutan today launched military action against Indian insurgent groups operating from camps in that country, a move strongly supported by India, reports PTI. Announcing launching of the operation by Thimpu, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha told Parliament ?we have been informed by the Royal Government of Bhutan that they have launched today military action against Indian insurgent groups operating from camps in that country?.

The Government of India ?strongly supports this action,? he said adding that Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuk had telephonically informed...

GUWAHATI, Dec 5 ? Defence Minister George today accused Bangladesh government of not taking any step to drive out the ULFA and NDFB militants taking shelter in camps set up in that country. Talking to newmen at the Army base in Narengi here this afternoon, George alleged that Pakistani ISI?s hand had become obvious behind Bangladesh government?s inaction vis-a-vis evicting militants from Northeast from that country.

?We know there are ULFA and NDFB camps both in Bhutan and Bangladesh. However, despite repeated appeal from Indian government Bangladesh is not taking any action against these...

SHILLONG, Dec 2: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which has achieved remarkable success in anti-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir, has set-up a counter-insurgency school in Assam?s Dayapur to teach its own personnel combat operations, reports PTI. The school, set up on the pattern of Army?s counter-insurgency and jungle warfare school in Mizoram?s Vairangte, has already trained six CRPF companies during 2002, top CRPF officials said here. Already courses of counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist operations were regularly conducted at two of the paramilitary force?s Central...

GUWAHATI, Dec 2: Even as the ULFA has found for itself a new foothold to inch its way back to the popularity charts by targeting the Bihari community in the State, there is increasing evidence that it is forging close links with the Nepalese Maoist rebels and setting up bases in the Himalayan kingdom. Security sources said here that the ULFA and the Maoists have recently agreed to have the Assam rebel outfit operate three new bases in Nepal. In fact, there are also reports that the ULFA have been already operating a few camps there since much earlier. The two rebel groups have also agreed to...

IMPHAL, June 11 ? The Centre was considering to set up fences along Indo-Myanmar border to prevent cross-border terrorism and armed smuggling, said Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami here today before leaving for New Delhi after a two-day visit to Manipur, reports PTI. Swami, who was addressing mediapersons, also said that fencing work and lighting along Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh borders were in progress to prevent cross-border terrorism and other crimes.

Swami said the Centre was prepared to hold peace talks with any insurgent outfit in the region if they did not put any pre...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? As many as six North East militant outfits based in Manipur and Tripura has recently approached the Mizoram Chief Minister, Sri Zoramthanga to act as the catalyst in facilitating talks with the Central Government. The Minister for Information and Publicity of Mizoram, F Malsawma informed The Assam Tribune that these militant outfits, all hardcore groups including the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) had shown interest in sitting for talks with the Government of India and approached Sri Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front rebel, to facilitate the same.

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Silchar, June 6: Bru refugees displaced from Mizoram after ethnic riots and settled in relief camps in North Tripura since November 1997, have demanded the Centre?s intervention to resolve their repatriation problem.

Bruno Msha, president of the Mizoram Bru Refugee Committee, said here recently that it was high time the Centre intervened to resolve the impasse. He said more than 3,600 refugees have died of various diseases in the camps in the past six years.

He regretted that since the last round of talks between the Bru refugee leaders and the Mizoram government in 2001, no major initiative...

DHAKA, June 3 ? Bangladesh has said that it has found no camps of Indian insurgents on its soil as claimed by India, reports PTI. ?India?s list of Indian insurgency camps in Bangladesh has been investigated but nothing has been found,? Bangladesh Foreign Minister Morshed Khan has said.

Rejecting the suggestion that there is no forward movement in Indo-Bangladesh relations, Khan said there are no contentious issues between the two nations, adding ?what the two have are irritants.? He described the recent series of interactions between political leaders of the two sides as ?positive and...

NEW DELHI, June 2 ? In a significant step aimed at checking movement of militants across the Indo-Bhutan border, Government has designated the Special Services Bureau to man the frontier, reports PTI. The step has been taken in the wake of recent reports that militants of North-East and extremists of North Bengal were using this route to infiltrate and exfiltrate, official sources said here today.

The Home Ministry is also examining a proposal to raise additional battalions of the force, created under Cabinet Secretariat in 1963 and brought under Home Ministry last year, to meet the...

AGARTALA, May 26 ? Central Government has extended a financial help of Rs 10.99 crore in the last financial year for the displaced Reang refugees presently sheltered in six camps at Kanchanpur.

The Reangs had come to North Tripura from adjacent Mizoram following fierce ethnic conflict between the Bru (Reang) and Lushai (Mizo) communities in October 1997. The exodus from Mizoram began on the night of October 15 and in phases the Reangs under constant threat and persecution from the majority community poured in the North district.

Several rounds of talks among the representatives of displaced...