Politics / Northeast

GUWAHATI, Dec 23: Bhutan does not see the need for involvement of the International Committee of Red Cross at present in the evacuation of non-combatant women and children of the ULFA, NDFB and KLO camps, demolished in the operation against the outfits by its Army. Bhutan Deputy Head of Mission in India Thinley Penjor told PTI today from New Delhi over phone that the ICRC had met ambassador Dago Tshering yesterday with a request to allow its delegation to visit the kingdom. ?The government at this stage does not see the need for their (ICRC) involvement. Their help will be taken later if...

NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Close on the heels of military action launched by Bhutan, Myanmar today declared that it will flush out Indian insurgent camps, if any, in that country and assured New Delhi that it will not allow militants from Bhutan to enter its soil, reports PTI. ?We will flush out Indian insurgent camps, if any in our country,? Foreign Minister of Myanmar U Win Aung told reporters here.

He was asked about reports that militants from United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland and Kamtapur Liberation organisation were sneaking into Myanmar from Bhutan...

GUWAHATI, Dec 22? The Gauhati High Court today issued a notice on the petition filed by the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samitee (MASS) and directed the petition to come up for further orders on January 2. The petition has been filed for an order from the High Court regarding the handing over of the dead bodies of combatant and non-combatant members of the underground ULFA whose camps have been under attack in Bhutan. The Division Bench of Justice D Biswas and Justice IA Ansari further directed the Army authorities to hand over the body of Bhimkanta Buragohain, the octogenerean founder-member of the...

PANERY(Indo-Bhutan border), Dec 22 ? Bhutan is determined to weed out Indian militant groups from its soil and the Army?s ?Operation All Clear? will continue, a spokesman for the Bhutan government said today, reports PTI. There would be no let-up in the Army operation against the ULFA, NDFB and KLO ultras who illegally operated from camps in Bhutan for 12 years, the spokesman, Yeshey Dorjee, told PTI.

The Royal Bhutan Army is now concentrating on the deeper recesses of the jungles where they had escaped after their camps were destroyed, Dorjee said. Apart from dealing a heavy blow to the...

Imphal, December 21: The Peoples Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak today said the sovereign Bhutan rather than supporting the movement to restore the lost sovereignty of the region is standing against the people of the north east people whose rights had been taken away. It is a game for the government of India but it will read to conflicts amongst kinsmen it further said. Prepak wants to have good relations with Bhutanese but it condemned the puppet Jigme Wangchuk government. It condemned in the highest terms the killing of those who are in their custody. It clarified that the offer to go back...

Guwahati, Dec. 21: Cornered by Bhutanese troops but apparently more angry with the Indian army, a frustrated Ulfa today said the armed forces on this side of the Indo-Bhutan border had launched a propaganda war to ?demoralise? its ranks. Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Barua said in an interview to an Internet news portal that the army had wrongly announced the capture of a couple of its top leaders.

?Major Bening Rabha and Captain Biju Deka are very much present in Bhutan and leading the fightback. The news of their surrender and arrest has been spread by the Indian army to break the morale of...

IMPHAL, Dec 21?The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isasc Muivah) extending moral support to ULFA and other revolutionary organisations which have come under heavy attack from the Bhutanese army in Bhutan for the past few days, has imposed a 24 hour bandh in all Naga areas in the North east.

The bandh began at of 6 am on Sunday 21 and will conclude at 6 am the following day, according to sources here. The outfit which is currently continuing peace talk with the Government of India since August 1997 also stated that they fully endorse the 48 hour bandh called by ULFA, NDFB and KLO.

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NEW DELHI, Dec 21 ?In a worrying development, camps operated by North East insurgents in Bangladesh have increased by about 25 over the past month touching the figure of 180 with Indian security agencies claiming to have ?concrete evidence? about al Qaeda presence in that country. The new camps in Bangladesh have been detected even as an operation is underway in Bhutan to flush-out Indian insurgents from that country. Dhaka has consistently denied presence of al Qaeda elements or NE insurgents in that country, reports PTI.

Dhaka has consistently denied presence of Al Qaeda elements or NE...

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The Bhutanese Government is attaching priority to the safety of the unarmed women and children living in the Indian militants? camps in Bhutan. The Royal Government of the Himalayan kingdom is taking all the care to provide food and shelter to these inmates of the militant camps, said Director of Bhutanese Foreign Ministry Yeshey Dorji yesterday. He was talking to this correspondent at the regional Revenue and Customs Directorate of the kingdom?s Samdrup Jongkhar district yesterday.

When the Bhutanese official was talking to this correspondent at Samdrup Jongkhar, the...

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The 48-hour Assam, Bodoland and Kamatapur bandh, the call for which was given jointly by ULFA, NDFB and KLO in protest against the Bhutan Government offensive against them, continued to evoke mixed response for the second day today. No untoward bandh related incident was reported from any part of Assam till the time of filing of this report. In Guwahati, the bandh continued to evoke mixed response as private vehicles continued to ply on the roads, while a few auto rickshaws also plied on the city roads. However, only a few city buses plied on the roads. The train and air...