Guwahati, Nov 17: Assam's insurgent outfits ULFA
and NDFB are in league with Bhutan-based Maoists to topple the
King of that country for the Royal Bhutan army launching an
operation against them, police claimed quoting an arrested
Bhutanese Maoist.
Police sources said Bhutan national Tenzing G Zangpo,
who was arrested for his alleged role in the October
30 Assam serial blasts, had told interrogators that ULFA and
NDFB were angry with the royal Bhutan government for launching
the 'Operation All Clear' to remove their camps on its soil in
2003.
The Maoist group was also not happy with Bhutan
government evicting Nepalese from southern Bhutan, he said
during the interrogation.
Tenzing said the plan for the explosions was hatched
between August and September last year with logistic support
provided by the NSFB in procurring vehicles for the car bombs
and the ULFA supplying the explosives to be assembled in
southern Bhutan.
The police sources said quoting 48-year-old Tenzing
that ULFA And NDFB were actively supporting the Maoists by
supplying them with explosives.
In June last year, NDFB had provided them with 50kg of
TNT at the Bodo outfit's designated camp in Udalguri in Assam
even after it had declared ceasefire in 2005.
The sources said Tenzing, earlier general secretary of
the pro-democracy and human rights Druk National Congress of
Bhutan, had fled his country in 1991 with his country's
currency of Ngultrum (nu) 2.29 lakh after he joined the Maoist
organisation.
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, November 17, 2008, 00:00