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Highly placed government sources have told The Indian Express that Indian intelligence agencies have been able to intercept Baruah’s mobile phone as well as satellite phone conversations from China and are also aware of his precise location in that country.
Though there is no clarity on the reason for his visit, sources said Baruah, head of the military wing of the United Liberation Front of Asom, might have travelled to China in the hope of procuring some arms for his organisation whose avowed aim is to liberate Assam from India.
Baruah is known to have travelled to Bangkok and Pakistan in the past but this is probably his first visit to China.
His China visit comes at a time when the Awami League government under Sheikh Hasina has initiated a crackdown on the cadres of ULFA and many other Indian insurgent groups who have taken shelter in Bangladesh. Observers say Bangladesh under the Awami League — it took charge in December last year after a gap of more than seven years — is now becoming increasingly inhospitable for these groups which had been using it as a safe haven.
Just two weeks ago, the Bangladeshi government made high-profile arrests of two former Director Generals of the country’s National Security Intelligence in connection with a weapons smuggling case in which 10 trucks of arms and ammunition, shipped from China and apparently meant for the use of ULFA in Assam, were seized from the jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited in April 2004.
Major General (retd) Rezakul Haider Chowdhury and Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim were picked up by Bangladesh’s CID in a pre-dawn raid on May 16 and are currently under police remand. The 2004 seizure of arms, while they were being unloaded from ships into the trucks, is the biggest ever catch by Bangladesh police and an eye-opener on how Indian insurgent groups were using Bangladesh territory, with generous support from some local anti-India politicians, to unleash terror in the north-eastern states.
About 1790 rifles of which 690 were AK-47s with provision to fix grenade launchers, 2000 grenade launchers, 25020 grenades, 150 rocket launchers, 840 rockets, and 1.1 million ammunition were recovered in the seizure. Barely a month later, on April 26, 2004, the Bangladesh security agencies
intercepted another bus loaded with arms and ammunition close to Tripura border. That bus was said to have been released subsequently, reportedly on the instructions of Maj (retd) Syed Iskander, brother of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia who headed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. Iskander is known to have links with Pakistan’s ISI.
The recently arrested officials, Chowdhury and Rahim, are said to be known to Baruah, according to another top NSI official Wing Cdr (retd) Shahabuddin Ahmed who was arrested by CID earlier in the same case.
In his confessional statement, Shahabuddin claimed that just before the arrival of the arms consignment Rahim, Chowdhury and some other government officials had met at Chowdhury’s residence to discuss ways to ensure its safe passage to India. He claimed that Baruah, disguised as one Ahmed, was present at this meeting.
Shahabuddin said Baruah had also accompanied Chowdhury during a visit to the Combined Military Hospital. Sources said they were not ruling out the possibility that these two officials had helped in arranging Baruah’s China visit.
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I sure china supporting ULFA and other North-East terrorists..
It is one new propaganda to save Bangladeshi pro- delhi government to render its duty. Earlier many many North East leaders have visited China to collect arms but in reality they were all in their tactical places.But Asom , Nagalim and Kashmir are still burning.
I think that this is a VERY WORRYING development!! I am 100% in agreement with Avinash Baranwal.Since India was NOT able to stop this terrorist escaping to China,they MUST adopt Israeli MOSSAD's tactics,or else India will be split into dozens of small states which India's neighbours WILL BE CELEBRATING!!
While I just wrote a comment about China being a nuisance, I also want to point out the failure of Indians in the 'heartland'. For them, Kashmir and the North East (most cannot even name the states there) are just real estate that must be kept with India at any cost, and the people living there must be loyal to India, no matter what - even if most of the benefits of the natural resources are sucked away by "outsiders" (in their perception). Yuppie Indians are getting carried away by glitz and glamour while taking the unity of India for granted. If groups like the ULFA and naxalites, not to mention the Kashmiri groups, are driven to fighting, it's time to stop and ask why. Many Indians do not have the capacity to understand history, nor respect fellow Indians. They have a simplistic view of what India is, and cannot see the exploitation of fellow Indians. Boycott junk TV, low class movies and hyped up "sports" and try to understand the real situation.
Its high time to locate the terroists and liquidate them.
I believe the government should view the comments made by public - merely by being informed by medias and other sources. It seems they are source with better remedials ways and ideas. But for the politicians and government these are not in sight or may their hands are tied by the process of democracy and partisianism.
its a kind of war in which we indians are always very far away in action plans. we are just waiting and very poor in making quick decsions. As we r week in smart planning like chinese and americans ...in order to save our country and people. our leaders, politicians, scientists, engineers hv to took some great microplannings rather than thinking about there own perks and profits. As we are having very strong army, navy
A simple question - Why can't we kill Presh Baruah and alike secretly?What stops us? Why can't we learn from Israel's Mosad which killed Hamas Terrorists at foreign land?or is it that we still have traitors as politicians? Well, in that case why can't our Police/Military/RAW/CBI(sorry not this...this is a sold out organisation) kill such Politicians?
The entire Eastern India is now nominally in India. Due to our impotent Govt. at the Center, it is almost a part of Bangla Desh and China. Bangladeshis will outnumber Indians in a few years and China can gatecrash in any part of Eastern India without any fear of retaliatory action from India.
IT IS HIGH TIME R.A.W. OF INDIA SET UP CELLS TO ELIMINATE SUCH TERRORIST LEADERS LIVING IN PAKI. LAND AND BANGLADESH.PAKIS. ARE NOT FIGHTING ITS OWN WAR BUT IT IS PROXY WAR ON INDIA ON BEHALF OF AMERICANS AND CHINESE.IT IS CHINA AND AMERICAN WAR TO DISTABLIZE AND DIVIDE INDIA.
Now this makes very clear that China along with Pakistan, is behind the insurgency in India's north-eastern states.They use Mynmar military junta,which has liniancy to Communist China,and some fundamentalist rulers of Banladesh to further their objectives.If one goes by the cummulative activites of China in the region,he is certainly be sure that the China is playing the lead role in all the insugency activites in India.Now question is:why China is involved in this kind of activities after the cold war with demise of USSR twi decades ago? Its objective is be no.2 in the world geo-politics.For this it need to be economically strong.With rise of Indian economy after liberalisation,India pose challenge to China.Besides,China wants to spread the communism to other countries.In view of Chinese this ambition US has shown interest in the sub-continent and US old ally in the region Pak. can not trusted because up spread of Islamic fundamentalism there.So India should have policies to counter..
From reported 'organ harvesting' from prisoners (especially FalunGong followers as they are said to lead a healthy lifestyle) to a cultural genocide in Tibet, China has proven time and again that it's a power-drunk bully. They have no qualms about supplying arms to thugs such as the sri lankan or the sudanese militaries. The regime in Burma cannot carry on with its oppression without China's active backing. It's a sick nation trying hard to rewrite history, while actually wanting to be respected internationally (hence the song and dance shows such as the Olympics - where during the opening ceremony, they showed a girl supposedly singing a song, because she looked cute, while the actual singer was not shown). Indians are so distracted by idiotic movies (that still carry the lip-syncing by our "stars") and the stupidest game called cricket (NEVER winning in any REAL sports), while also wanting to be respected internationally. Indians had better take a good hard look at themselves.
The equation is not as straight forward as stated in the report. There are twin issues. One is the mediaval thought that India has to be enslaved (and we have had a history of 700-years following that). Second is that India is a growing power with a disparate social groupings (but the same is true for all developed countries as well). We are politically not keen to resolve the second one. Indeed if any, we seem to boost that poltically (Maharashtrian PM, Dalit ki Beti PM, Cow belt Yadavs, Desh ki Neta Sonia Gandhi etc). This leaves room for desparate groups to seek political help and shelter from any power on the earth. In steps these powers on such a footprint - Bangladesh, Pakistan, China to name ones who have encouraged it.China assisting ULFA is not a wonder. If Assam were out of India, then Arunachal would be theirs. Also cutting Assam off from India would not difficult as they occupy the Bhutanese portion of the Chengdu Valley.Therefore, building our might is necessary.
With obsession over Pakistan, India has not been paying as much attention as it should on the violent prone area starting from Bangladesh border,through Assam,Orissa,parts of Bihar,Uttarkhand,Parts of MP,Coastal belt of AP,Khammam,Warangal,North Tamil Nadu dists.In these areas terrorist groups of all hues have a loose federaton and in fact parallel govt is being run by them especially in AP .High time India pays serious attention as this menace is much more dangerous than Taliban.
With this revelation, my doubts are very clear and clarified that, Ulfa commander Paresh Baruah could be stooge of China, and China is ULFA's main sponsor. I hope the Govt. of India realises these facts. There should me a way to stop the communication and source of income coming into the hands of UlFA. If we can achieve that we won the battle against ULFA. China wants to see the eastern state (Assam) a troubled one. Thats their main agenda.
China is India's competitor for superpower status so its no eye popping surprise thats its going to aid ULFA. Why has not India been able to completely eliminate ULFA is beyond me or it might be plain incapability to do so. Someone mentioned Mossad - nobody seriously believes Indian Intelligence measures upto the world's topmost organization!