By R Dutta Choudhury
Highly placed official sources told The Assam Tribune that the Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh has mounted an all out offensive against the militants taking shelter in that country and the militant groups like the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) have been forced to wind up all their camps in the Sherpur district. Sources said that some militants are now staying in villages in the Bakapura area. Sources said that though the personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion have been taking action against the villagers who gave shelter to militants, it is almost impossible to trace out members of the militant groups of the region without pinpointed information.
Sources said that according to intelligence inputs, some of the militants have shifted to the Chittagong-Myanmar border areas by taking advantage of the fact that there is hardly any security presence in that area. “Though a few senior leaders of the militant groups may still be staying in Dhaka, it is not easy to trace them without specific information,” sources added.
Among the hardcore ULFA members, Antu Chowdang and Drishti Rajkhowa are still in Bangladesh and efforts are on to bring them to India.
Sources said that security agencies managed to get in touch with them to persuade them to return to Assam along with 32 members, who returned last month, but they refused to do so and now they are untraced. With the Bangladesh authorities intensifying the probe into the arms haul case of 2004, where the ULFA commander in chief Paresh Barua was named as an accused, pressure on the ULFA will mount in the days to come, making it impossible for the militants to use the territory of the neighbouring country as safe sanctuary, sources pointed out.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Government has officially informed India about the arrest of UNLF chief RK Meghen alias Sanayaima. He is now in the custody of the security forces of Bangladesh and he is likely to be handed over to India soon.
via Assam Tribune
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