NALBARI, Dec 21? Police today produced ULFA publicity secretary Mithinga Daimari and the five other militants handed over to it by the Army authorities last evening, before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalbari. They were remanded to five days police custody by the Court. Mithinga was captured by the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) at Sixth Mile on the northern part of Samdrup Jongkjhar town on December 16 where he was taking shelter in a solitary house. His two body guards were not around when the RBA raided the house. The RBA also seized Mithinga?s M-20 pistol.
Talking to this correspondent, Mithinga alleged that RBA personnel had misbehaved with the women cadres of the ULFA and tortured the children inmates of the camps. The RBA operation was unexpected and even in their wildest of dreams the ULFA members could not think of such an act. The Royal Bhutan Government was maintaining a good relation with the ULFA leaders and this act of it comes as a betrayal, Mithinga said.
There were 15 to 16 ULFA families, including those of Benning Rabha, Asanta Baghphukan, Mrinmoy Hazarika and Robin Neog near the house from where Mithinga was picked up by the RBA. Mithinga said that he was very pained thinking about the fate of these families. Mithinga is not willing to surrender before the Government of India. ?I will continue to fight?, he said. In reply to questions he said that he met Paresh Baruah for the last time in 1998 in Bhutan.
Arabinda Rajkhowa visited the Bhutan camps of the outfit for the last time in September, 2002, while, Raju Baruah left Bhutan camps in 2002 for Bangladesh. The outfit?s foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury is also not in Bhutan, Mithinga said. Mithinga was not present in any of the discussions of the ULFA with the RGB , though for the past about three years, he was in Bhutan, he said.