ULFA chairman and other terrorists handed to India by Bangladesh

[ViruRulez]

Dawki (Meghalaya): United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa was handed over to Border Security Force (BSF) by Bangladeshi security agencies early on Friday morning at an outpost along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya. Rajkhowa was handed over along with 10 others including his wife and two children and ULFA's military operations deputy chief Raju Barua at the Dawki outpost in the Jaintia hills district of Meghalaya. The other people who were handed over include Rajkhowa's bodyguard, Barua's wife and son, and wife and daughter of ULFA's foreign secretary Sashadhar Choudhury. All of them have been brought to Guwahati for completion of legal formalities. "ULFA leaders Arabinda Rajkhowa and Raju Baruah, who are in the custody of Assam Police, will be produced in a court in Guwahati soon," said Home Secretary, G K Pillai. The 53-year-old ULFA chairman had expressed his desire to start peace talks with the Centre and has reportedly been talking to Union Home Ministry and intelligence officials on modality of talks. On the other hand ULFA's commander-in-chief Paresh Barua has spoken out against the peace talks and wants to continue with the armed insurgency. Barua reportedly told some Assamese intellectuals close to him that he did not support the proposed talks as sovereignty of Assam was not one of the per-conditions. Arrested publicity secretary of ULFA Mithinga Daimary also said that talks without Barua would be useless. "It is possible to hold talks within the framework of the Constitution but talks without Barua would be unrealistic. Sovereignty must be the basis for talks though whether it will be achieved or not, the future alone can tell," Daimary said at the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate's court. Rajkhowa had founded ULFA along with four others people on April 7, 1979. He was arrested in Bangladesh on Monday.

Good to see Bangladesh clamping down on terrorists targeting India from their soil and handing them over to India. Though I do not support them but I have to admire them for this crackdown on terror. Hope Pakis also learn from it and starts handing over the terrorists. :dontknow:

[urbestfriend]

Shiekh hasina govt is india pro. Good that they have handed over ULFA terrorists , should help a strong relation between both countries

[DomainK]

Very well done. That's how neighbors should be. Now we need ti interrogate them, get all intel that we can and then fast track them to their sentences in stead of going though a two-decade long judiciary BS while their colleagues try some nonsense stunt to free them and some jobless human rights organization write about the plight of the innocent terrorists.

[ViruRulez]

According to news reports, Bangladesh has promised to hand over two more terrorist leaders from two other Indian terrorist organizations. Bangladesh has also freezed terrorist accounts in their country worth thousands of crores as per news channel reports. Their govt. is trying to improve relations with India. Even Myanmar is now willing to destroy terrorists working from their soil as per reports. Hope that we also invest and give financial investments and help in these countries which are helping us by capturing the terrorists.

[Lurker]

According to news reports' date=' Bangladesh has promised to hand over two more terrorist leaders from two other Indian terrorist organizations. Bangladesh has also freezed terrorist accounts in their country worth thousands of crores as per news channel reports. Their govt. is trying to improve relations with India. [b']Even Myanmar is now willing to destroy terrorists working from their soil as per reports. Hope that we also invest and give financial investments and help in these countries which are helping us by capturing the terrorists.

The most important thing here is to fast track the trials of the terrorists and give them the requited justice and subsequent punishment. Indian Govt. is almost always shouting how BD, or other countries, are not helping with nabbing terrorists and when they do help we find out we dont have enough resources, or strategy to deal with it. Very recently one of Dawood's brother was caught and then was allowed to go, and this was within India. xxx

[CricPassion]

http://bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=2&id=148733&hb=top

ULFA urges Dhaka to 'stop crackdown' (bdnews24.com) РThe United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) has appealed to Bangladesh's Awami League (AL) government to stop its ongoing crackdown against the insurgent organisations of northeastern India. "A party like the Awami League, which fought for Bangladesh's freedom, should try and understand our passion for independence. We are fighting against Indian colonialism much the same way they fought against colonialism of Pakistan," the ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua said in a statement e-mailed to bdnews24.com. Four other insurgent outfits of the troubled region - the outlawed Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) - have also echoed the ULFA. "We know that the spirit of freedom has always prevailed, even against the strongest power on earth. And we believe that in the spirit of freedom the people of Bangladesh will have sympathy and support for our liberation struggle transcending their government's contrary policies," they said in the joint statement with ULFA. The ULFA has been pursuing an armed struggle since 1979 with the professed objective of liberating the hydrocarbon-rich northeastern Indian state of Assam from what they term as New Delhi's 'colonial rule'. Thousands have died during its insurgent campaign. Barua heads the armed wing of the outlawed organisation. The NDFB too is fighting for an independent homeland for two million Bodos, who live in parts of western Assam and are among the early settlers of the State. The MPLF is a conglomeration of three secessionist rebel organisations of another northeastern Indian state Manipur. The NLFT and ATTF are also fighting against the Indian government with the objective of liberating Tripura from colonial rule of India. "The people of northeast India wholeheartedly supported the Bangladesh liberation war, so why should Bangladesh not support our struggle," Barua said in the communiqu̩ from an undisclosed location. The ULFA military chief's appeal to the AL government came a week after New Delhi announced the arrest of the outfit's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa by the Border Security Force (BSF) near the India-Bangladesh border at Dawki in northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. Raju Barua, the deputy commander-in-chief of ULFA's armed wing, was also arrested along with Rajkhowa on December 4 last Sources in the Indian government's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), however, had said that Rajkhowa had been picked up from somewhere in Bangladesh and was unofficially handed over to the BSF. Dhaka has categorically denied that Rajkhowa was detained in Bangladesh. But Rajkhowa, himself, indicated that he had been arrested in Bangladesh. "Bangladesh has betrayed us (ULFA)," he had told journalists when produced in a court in Guwahati, the main city of Assam, on Dec 5. The five insurgent outfits in their joint statement said that the "arrest and hand-over" of Rajkhowa and other leaders of ULFA by the Bangladesh government had deeply hurt the sentiments of the peoples Assam, Manipur and Tripura, who had contributed in no small way to the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. "It may be recalled that our region served the much needed rear base of the Bangladesh liberation war. The peoples of Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura provided generous shelters to hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters of Bangladesh. And now our Region provides shelter for livelihood to hundreds of thousands of migrant Bangladeshis," the proscribed organisations stated. "It is, therefore, only natural that the peoples of our region now engaged in liberation struggles feel betrayed in their hour of need by this act of the Bangladesh government." The ULFA military chief Barua also strenuously denied Indian media reports that his organisation was aplnning to launch attacks in Bangladesh to avenge the handover of Rajkhowa and other leaders. "We are not waging war against any other country, we are only fighting India, but we appeal to Dhaka not to fall prey to Indian colonialism," he said. India and Bangladesh have not yet inked any bilateral extradition treaty. Delhi has also long been conveying to Dhaka its concern over Indian insurgents and terrorists having bases in Bangladesh. But some sources have suggested that Dhaka has recently accepted Delhi's proposal for a tacit understanding to track down and catch the fugitives of India illegally taking shelter in Bangladesh. Last month two ULFA leaders Рits 'finance secretary' Chitrabon Hazarika and 'foreign secretary' Shashadhar Choudhury Рwere arrested by the BSF near the Indo-Bangla border in Tripura. The ULFA alleged at the time too that Hazarika and Choudhury had in fact been picked up by some unidentified men from a residential area in Dhaka and later handed over to the BSF. After the detention of the ULFA chairman and others, its military wing chief Barua is the only top leader of the outfit who is still absconding. Indian intelligence officials believe that Barua too was based in Dhaka, at least till recently. In March 2008, two men Mohammed Hafijur Rehman and Din Mohammed, both prime accused in the Chittagong arms haul case, had confessed in the court that the 10 truck-loads of weapons and ammunition that was seized in 2004 had in fact been meant for the ULFA. Rehman also revealed that Barua, himself, had supervised the arms-smuggling operation. It is not clear now if Barua is still in Bangladesh or has fled to any other neighbouring country in the wake of the crackdown by Dhaka on Indian insurgents and terrorists. Amid speculation of a peace-process between the government of India and ULFA, Barua said if India was a people's democracy, it should allow the "voice of the people of Assam to be heard." "Negotiations must be free and unfettered. Or else, India should hold a referendum or a plebiscite and let the people of Assam express themselves freely. If they say they want to be part of India, so be it. We will accept the people's verdict but the conduct of the plebiscite should be free and fair and nobody should try to influence it," said Barua.

[ViruRulez]

ULFA seems to have gone mad. Requesting to stop a crackdown on them. :hehe: