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NEW DELHI, Dec 29: Buoyed by Bhutan?s operation against Indian insurgents, India will seek to build pressure on Bangladesh for a similar action against the north-eastern insurgents? camps on its soil by raising the matter at a high-level meeting here next week, reports PTI. A list of 180 camps operating in Bangladesh and 85 prominent insurgents based there will be handed over to Dhaka during the five-day Director General-level meeting of BSF and Bangladesh Rifles being held here from January 6, official sources told PTI.

During the meeting, which will be attended by top officials of...

GUWAHATI, Dec 29: Violent inter-tribes conflicts confined to the two hill districts and tribal groups demand for right to determine their fate for themselves have sowed the seed for a new band of complex tribal politics in the State in the year gone by. The early part of the year was marred by violent clashes between majority Dimasa and minority Hmar tribes in North Cachar Hills district which witnessed mindless killings of members of both the tribes at the hands of Hmar and Dimasa militants as well as mob frenzy hitherto uncharacteristic in the tribal society in the State.

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GUWAHATI, Dec 29: The recent clashes between Karbi Anglong?s majority Karbi and minority Kuki communities had about a decade-long history of acrimony behind it. Though the Karbi leaders are trying hard to project the clashes as ?group clashes?, reality speaks otherwise. Leaders of both the Congress and the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) are blaming the anti-talk faction of the United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), a Karbi militant group and the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), a militant group of the Kukis, for the recent developments. They also go to the extent of demanding a...

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...