Shillong: The number of camps of Indian
rebel groups in Bangladesh has gone down after security
agencies of that country launched a crackdown on them, a
senior BSF official said on Tuesday.
"We have received positive signals from the Bangladesh
security agencies. They are acting against insurgent groups,"
BSF Inspector General (Assam and Meghalaya Frontier) Prithvi
Raj told reporters here.
"Security forces in Bangladesh are taking strong
action against the militants. The number of camps is
decreasing," he said.
Noting that the BSF has started sharing intelligence
with Bangladesh security agencies, he said "the Bangladesh
agencies are making efforts to either arrest the militants or
prevent them from operating from there. There are reports that
the militants there are on the run."
The BSF had given a list of 104 camps of Indian
insurgent groups operating in Bangladesh at a DDG-level
meeting with BDR at Sylhet recently.
Bangladeshi security forces had last month apprehended
ULFA's self-styled foreign secretary Sashadhar Choudhury and
finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika, who were subsequently
pushed into Indian territory from where BSF took them into
custody.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 17:40