New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said
insurgent groups in the North East were using arms smuggled
from China and South East Asia.
"According to some inputs, insurgent groups in North
East are reported to be using foreign made arms. Inputs
suggest that such arms have been procured by insurgents
through arms smugglers based in South East Asia and in Yunnan
Province of China, through the Sino-Myanmar border and the
porous Indo-Myanmar border," Minister of state for Home
Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran told Rajya Sabha.
The security forces have been patrolling the border
areas regularly and they have been suitably sensitised
regarding arms smuggling by the insurgents from time to time.
Government of India has voiced its concerns with the
governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh over the reported
smuggling of arms through their territories," he said.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 17:56