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India to ask Myanmar for crackdown on ULFA
February 11, 2007: New Delhi, India will make fresh demand to Myanmar for a Bhutan Army-type operation against ULFA and other northeastern insurgent groups.
The demand will be presented
during the upcoming visit of Union Home Secretary V K Duggal to Yangon.
Issues like drug trafficking and effective border management will also figure
high on the agenda during Duggal's visit from February 13-17, Home Ministry
sources said.
They said the Home Secretary has already chaired a meeting of senior Home
Ministry officials to review the situation along the India-Myanmar border,
particularly in the wake of violence unleashed by ULFA militants in parts of Assam.
ULFA has bases in Myanmar
and New Delhi
has been demanding a crackdown on the insurgent groups operating from that
country similar to the 2003 Bhutan Army operation against ULFA.
Other insurgent groups operating from across the border include the United
Nationalist Liberation Front (UNLF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Myanmar
does not accept presence of insurgents in its territory engaged in anti-India
operations.
India
has been raising the issue of shifting of boundary pillars in Manipur by the
Myanmarese army and the issue is likey to figure again at the talks.
Sources: NDTV