50 top Indian activists handed over since 2009
High official of the Government always denied that they had not handed over any Indian separatists to India
File Photo Of ULFA members arrested by RAB
At least 50 top leaders and activists of different separatist groups of India, nabbed by Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies, have been handed over to India since Awami League assumed power in 2009.(The New Nation )
Bangladesh handed over 16 Indian separatists along with their family members to Indian authorities over the weekend, officials said yesterday.
The rebels, of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), were arrested by Bangladeshi security forces from the country's north-eastern region bordering India.The ULFA rebels, the main rebel group in north-eastern Indian state of Assam, have fought for a separate Assamese homeland since 1979. Indian officials said a group of 27, including the rebels and their family members, were handed to the Indian Security Forces by their Bangladesh counterparts at the border outpost of Dawki in India's Meghalaya state.
The arrested rebels include some top leaders like Anjan Borthakur, who was in charge of an important ULFA base in Bangladesh, and Anu Borgohain, who led the group's publicity wing. ULFA chief Paresh Barua said in a statement e-mailed to the media that "Some of our activists have been compromised in a neighbouring country and they are now in enemy hands." He said some of them had indeed given themselves up to the Bangladesh security forces with their families.
Many more have fled to India to evade capture and have been picked up by Indian border guards and police.High official of the Government always denied that they had not handed over any Indian separatists to India.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday said that the ULFA militants, who had reportedly surrendered in Bangladesh, were with their "own people" in the state and not in police custody. "The militants have come into the state and are not in the custody of the state police but in their own places among their own people," Gogoi said in Guwahati on Monday on the sidelines of a function launching a model health project, reports Press Trust of India."The militants are coming as they are interested in holding talks and this has made us more hopeful of holding talks at the earliest," he added.
More militants were coming in and it was an indication that they want a solution to their grievances through talks."They have realised that there is no point in an armed struggle and that the development in Assam is only possible if their problems are resolved through talks and discussions," he added.Asked whether talks would be held without the outfit's Commander-in-Chief Paresh Barua, Gogoi said that efforts were on to bring him for talks but there was a "time limit and we cannot wait for him indefinitely".
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Bangladesh handed over 16 Indian separatists along with their family members to Indian authorities over the weekend, officials said yesterday.
The rebels, of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), were arrested by Bangladeshi security forces from the country's north-eastern region bordering India.The ULFA rebels, the main rebel group in north-eastern Indian state of Assam, have fought for a separate Assamese homeland since 1979. Indian officials said a group of 27, including the rebels and their family members, were handed to the Indian Security Forces by their Bangladesh counterparts at the border outpost of Dawki in India's Meghalaya state.
The arrested rebels include some top leaders like Anjan Borthakur, who was in charge of an important ULFA base in Bangladesh, and Anu Borgohain, who led the group's publicity wing. ULFA chief Paresh Barua said in a statement e-mailed to the media that "Some of our activists have been compromised in a neighbouring country and they are now in enemy hands." He said some of them had indeed given themselves up to the Bangladesh security forces with their families.
Many more have fled to India to evade capture and have been picked up by Indian border guards and police.High official of the Government always denied that they had not handed over any Indian separatists to India.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday said that the ULFA militants, who had reportedly surrendered in Bangladesh, were with their "own people" in the state and not in police custody. "The militants have come into the state and are not in the custody of the state police but in their own places among their own people," Gogoi said in Guwahati on Monday on the sidelines of a function launching a model health project, reports Press Trust of India."The militants are coming as they are interested in holding talks and this has made us more hopeful of holding talks at the earliest," he added.
More militants were coming in and it was an indication that they want a solution to their grievances through talks."They have realised that there is no point in an armed struggle and that the development in Assam is only possible if their problems are resolved through talks and discussions," he added.Asked whether talks would be held without the outfit's Commander-in-Chief Paresh Barua, Gogoi said that efforts were on to bring him for talks but there was a "time limit and we cannot wait for him indefinitely".
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