Insurgency / Northeast

SILIGURI, Dec 29: The crackdown on the militant camps by Bhutan Government had a serious impact on the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation(KLO), which in turn, will restrict the movement of the militants belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) through the North Bengal corridor.

However, the security agencies are not ruling out the possibility of retaliatory violence by the militant groups out of frustration in the North Bengal area as any major act of sabotage in the area can cut off the entire north-eastern region from the...

NEW DELHI, Dec 29: The Royal Government of Bhutan is still undecided about handing over the bodies of the militants who were killed in operations in the country. Highly placed sources said that they are still continuing with the operations, which are spread out in remote areas in districts spread all over the country. The issue of handing over the bodies of the slain militants is yet to be worked out, sources said. The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) is also yet to come out with the death toll among the militants. Initial reports pouring in from the country suggest that at least 70 militants were...

Dec. 28: On the run in Bhutan, Indian militants have made a dramatic appeal to China to provide ?safe passage? and ?temporary shelter?. ?At this moment, they (the cadre) have no other option but to enter the territory of the People?s Republic of China extra-legally to save their lives, negotiating sub-zero temperature and starvation.? We would like to request you and your people to permit them safe passage to your territory and temporary shelter necessary for their survival,? said a joint appeal signed by Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.

The appeal was faxed to the ?Chairman of the People?s...

TEZPUR, Dec 28 ? The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Tezpur, HC Sharma today remanded the founder of ULFA and its political advisor Bhimkanta Buragohain (alias ?Mama?), along with three other ULFA leaders ? including self-styled major Robin Handique, Bolin Das alias Kamal Kachari and SS major Dr Amarjit Gogoi ? to five days? police custody. Talking to The Assam Tribune, counsels of the ULFA leaders, advocates Bijon Mahajan, Subhash Biswas, Bhaskar Dev Konwar, Nikabur Jaman and Raju Pradhan, informed that the ULFA leaders were produced before the residence of the Additional CJM this...

TEZPUR, Dec 28? ULFA?s political adviser and the founder of the outfit Bhimkanta Buragohain, who is presently in police custody in Sonitpur district after he alongwith four other ULFA cadres, was handed over by the Indian Army to the State Police, said that he had not surrendered before anybody including the Royal Bhutanese Army (RBA).

In an exclusive interview to The Assam Tribune, here Buragohain, popularly known as ?mama? in the rank and file of the outfit, said the attack on the North-east-based militant outfits (ULFA, NDFB and KLO) by the RBA was beyond imagination. The RBA has betrayed...

Tezpur/Guwahati, Dec. 27: The Ulfa and the NDFB reeled under further setbacks today with 51 militants captured by the Royal Bhutan Army being handed over to the police in Nalbari and Darrang districts. There were reports that all Ulfa, KLO, and NDFB camps in Bhutan have been razed to the ground.

Of the 51 rebels, 32 were handed over at Tamulpur in Nalbari district and the remaining 19 at Mangaldoi in Darrang district. Sources said another batch of nearly 30 Ulfa and NDFB rebels is likely to handed over by the RBA tomorrow.

In Mangaldoi, the army also handed over 18 AK-56 rifles with bayonets...

AGARTALA, Dec 27 ? Boosted by Bhutan?s flush out campaign against the Indian militants from its soil Tripura Assembly also unanimously appealed Bangladesh to follow suit. A resolution has been passed in the Tripura House that was deliberating on a Private Member?s resolution on Friday last. The resolution appeals New Delhi to persuade Dhaka to chase out the Indian militants who are presently holed up in that country. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar informed the House that there were at least 50 camps of the Tripura militants in the neighbouring country but at the same he clarified that never the...

GUWAHATI, Dec 26 ? The ULFA, NDFB and KLO today imposed a ban on the trading with the Bhutanese individuals or firms by any individual or firm from Assam, Bodoland and Kamatapur. The ban will come into force with effect from midnight today. The three outfits, in a joint statement received here today, said that they had imposed ban on the movement to and from Bhutan to the soil of these three areas. The outfits also demanded that the Bhutanese authorities should allow the international bodies like the Amnesty International and International Committee of the Red cross and the family members of...

GUWAHATI, Dec 26 ? The ULFA and the NDFB, jolted by the recent events in Bhutan, may carry out terrorist attacks in the state, particularly in the state capital, to make its presence felt. Security agencies operating in the state have been alerted to the possibility and security reviews are being carried out of the possible terrorist targets.

Security sources said here that the recent events in Bhutan may have left the banned ULFA and NDFB badly crippled but there are chances that the militants may carry out surprise attacks to avenge those killed and wounded in Bhutan. There is a possibility...

NALBARI, Dec 26 ? The 64 ULFA kin who were handed over to the Indian authorities day before yesterday by the Bhutanese authorities, were remanded to 48-hour police custody by the Nlabari Chief Judicial Magistrate?s court All the kin were sent back to the Tamulpur 30-bedded Hospital, where they are lodged for interrogation by the security forces. They were remanded to police custody in connection with the Tamulpur Police station case number 203/03 under sections 121 (A)/123/125/10/13 of the IPC and section 120 (B) of the IPC.

Police, however, prevented the kin from talking to newspersons. But...