DHAKA, April 11 – A senior leader of Bangladesh’s main Opposition Awami League has claimed the existence of Indian insurgents’ camps in his country, reports PTI. Mayor of southeastern port city of Chittagong ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury was quoted by media reports as saying yesterday that the huge cache of arms and ammunition seized on the night of April 1 were “shipped from the USA and Pakistan to arm Indian rebels camped in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).”
Bangladedsh has repeatedly denied India’s charge that Indian insurgents were sheltered in its territory. Chowdhury claimed the Indian secessionists were running 50 to 60 training camps in the CHT and the weapons were brought in to arm them under “a sinister conspiracy to create unrest in the subcontinent,” according to independent English-language newspaper Daily Star.
“I’ve information that members of some Indian rebel groups are being trained in those camps on Bangladesh territory and (this is) known very well by our government too,” Chowdhury told a news conference at his office. The Chittagong Mayor clai-med the weapons were shipped from the US to create unrest in India by arming its secessionists and said, “I challenged anyone to prove me wrong.”