Indian outfits shifting bases to Myanmar
With Bangladesh authorities cracking down on north eastern Indian insurgents, the ultras are now shifting their bases to Myanmar, a top police official said yesterday.
Though insurgency was on the wane, overall, due to crackdown on ultras in Bangladesh by their security forces, the different insurgent outfits were now shifting their bases to Myanmar, Director General of Tripura State Police Pranay Sahaya told reporters in Agartala.
He said the issue came up at the conference of the DGPs in New Delhi from August 25 to 28, addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and Home Secretary G K Pillai among others.
"All the underground groups, including ULFA, are under extreme pressure in Bangladesh and are shifting their bases to Myanmar taking advantage of the long porous and unfenced border which was not properly policed to guard," Sahaya said.
Outfits like ULFA, KNLF and UNLF have already shifted their bases to Myanmar, which has a 1650-km long border with India, he said.
Replying to a question, Sahaya said India has already taken up the issue of using the soil by the NE insurgents with Myanmar government.
He said the Bangladesh authorities recently destroyed three camps of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in Khagrachari district of Chittagong Hill Tracts and constructed their helipads there.
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