ULFA chief arrest in Dhaka : We Should Be Careful In Dealing With Indian Insurgents
Dhaka dailies have reported that the United Liberation Front of Asom chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, has been arrested in Dhaka.
A high Detective Branch official told New Age on Wednesday they had arrested Arabinda at Ramna in the capital Tuesday morning.
Arabinda is likely to be handed over to India soon, the official said.The top leader of the liberation movement in the Indian state of Asom was arrested marking a major development in catches of the leaders of the liberation movements in eastern Indian states just before the visit of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to India. The Detective Branch on November 29 arrested the National Liberation Front of Tripura chairman, Biswamohan Debbarma, along the border at Kamalganj in Moulvibazar. Arabinda and Biswamohan are the latest big catches by the Bangladesh authorities just a month after they had handed over the United Liberation Front of Asom’s foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury and finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika to India. Sasha Choudhury and Chitrabon Hazarika were picked up by some plainclothes men, who claimed they were sent by higher authorities, from a house at Uttara in the capital at midnight past November 1. The two were later handed over to India.
No official confirmation of any of the arrests and handover to India, however, could be obtained. The inspector general of police, Nur Mohammad, however, claimed he was unaware of the arrest of Arabinda and Biswamohan. An Asom daily newspaper, the Assam Tribune, on Wednesday reported, ‘Intelligence inputs indicating detainment of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in Dhaka has created confusion here and till now no one is sure whether the militant leader has really been arrested or not.’ Security sources revealed they had received an intelligence input that the ULFA chairman was detained by the security forces of Bangladesh in Dhaka, the report said.The newspaper also said in early November, two senior ULFA leaders — finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika and foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury — were nabbed by the security forces of Bangladesh and they were handed over to the Border Security Force in Tripura. Indian online news service CNN-IBN on November 30 revealed the arrest of Biswamohan and said, ‘Bangladesh authorities have assured cooperation in finishing off most of the anti-India insurgent groups based in their country.’
We do not yet know the truth of the matter from any official source.However we ask the government to be careful in dealing with the insurgency matters of India in our bordering states.We can not get involved in these and make Assamese or some of their leaders our permanent enemies. This will be long term loss for Bangladesh
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