A joint team of police and Army arrested a militant belonging to the NDFB's anti-talks faction at Sonai Rupai Reserve Forest in Sonitpur district early on Thursday.
Police said two grenades and several rounds of ammunition were found on Dilip Basumatary, the outfit's 'station commander' of Dhekiajuli. "The search operation is still continuing," a senior police officer said. On the other hand, officials of the CID's anti-narcotics cell arrested a drug peddler in the Chandmari area here on Thursday afternoon. "We found 940 gm of morpheme in powder form on Farid Hussain. He is a resident of Manipur's Thoubal district and had brought the contraband from that state," a source in the CID said.
Police are interrogating Farid and will produce him in the chief judicial magistrate's court here on Friday.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Nagaland rebels sneak into Dima Hasao district
A group of 25-30 NSCN (IM) cadres has reportedly sneaked into southern Assam's Dima Hasao district from neighbouring Nagaland. This came to light following the arrest of two members of the militant outfit in Haflong on Wednesday night.
Acting on a tip-off, security forces raided Longme and Suratnagar villages near Haflong, the headquarters of Dima Hasao district, on Wednesday night and arrested the two self-styled senior sergeant majors of NSCN (IM) - W A Amos, alias Momo Anal (39), and Thuingalen Sira, alias Aleng (49) - a senior police officer said on Thursday. No arms or ammunitions were found on them, sources said.
During interrogation, the two militants revealed that a group of 30 NSCN(IM) cadres entered Dima Hasao from Nagaland and Manipur recently. They also confessed to the group carrying sophisticated arms and ammunition with them.
Acting on a tip-off, security forces raided Longme and Suratnagar villages near Haflong, the headquarters of Dima Hasao district, on Wednesday night and arrested the two self-styled senior sergeant majors of NSCN (IM) - W A Amos, alias Momo Anal (39), and Thuingalen Sira, alias Aleng (49) - a senior police officer said on Thursday. No arms or ammunitions were found on them, sources said.
During interrogation, the two militants revealed that a group of 30 NSCN(IM) cadres entered Dima Hasao from Nagaland and Manipur recently. They also confessed to the group carrying sophisticated arms and ammunition with them.
Fierce gunfight between Garo rebels and commandos
Shillong, July 10 : A fierce gunfight lasting for an hour broke out between Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district Friday, police said.
The exchange of fire took place at Nengmandalgre area of the district, when SWAT commandos came under fire from a group of 20 GNLA rebels hiding there.
‘The encounter lasted for an hour and the militants retreated back to the jungles after intensive firing from security forces,’ a police official told IANS on phone from Williamnagar, the district headquarters of Eat Garo Hills district, about 340 km from Shillong.
The commandos recovered improvised electronic devices, a binocular, incriminating documents, camouflage uniforms and food items from the site.
Though there were no casualties on the security forces’ side, police are yet to confirm if any of the rebels were injured.
Security forces have launched a crackdown on the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) in western Meghalaya.
Meghalaya, especially the Garo Hill, the most backward region, is used as a safe haven by various northeast-based militant groups.
The GNLA, one of five Garo rebel groups fighting for a ‘sovereign Garoland’ in the western area of Meghalaya, is headed by police officer-turned-rogue Champion R. Sangma.
The exchange of fire took place at Nengmandalgre area of the district, when SWAT commandos came under fire from a group of 20 GNLA rebels hiding there.
‘The encounter lasted for an hour and the militants retreated back to the jungles after intensive firing from security forces,’ a police official told IANS on phone from Williamnagar, the district headquarters of Eat Garo Hills district, about 340 km from Shillong.
The commandos recovered improvised electronic devices, a binocular, incriminating documents, camouflage uniforms and food items from the site.
Though there were no casualties on the security forces’ side, police are yet to confirm if any of the rebels were injured.
Security forces have launched a crackdown on the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) in western Meghalaya.
Meghalaya, especially the Garo Hill, the most backward region, is used as a safe haven by various northeast-based militant groups.
The GNLA, one of five Garo rebel groups fighting for a ‘sovereign Garoland’ in the western area of Meghalaya, is headed by police officer-turned-rogue Champion R. Sangma.
ATTSA warns militants
Student body to retaliate if tea garden worker is not released
Jorhat, July 9: The Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association (ATTSA) today threatened to carry out attacks on Karbi people if the kidnapped employee of the Hatikhuli Tea Estate was not released within the next 24 hours.
Karbi militants kidnapped Bogai Karmakar, a labour sardar of the estate, on Thursday.
Karmakar was inspecting work of women labourers when the suspected rebels, dressed in army fatigues, arrived and demanded the garden manager’s phone number. When he refused to comply, they whisked him away at gunpoint.
Police said, quoting eyewitnesses, there were at least three women among the group of about 12 kidnappers.
Hatikhuli Tea Estate, located along the Golaghat-Karbi Anglong border near Kaziranga National Park, belongs to the Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd, formerly Tata Tea, and is one of the largest organic tea estates in Asia.
The secretary of the Bokakhat unit of the ATTSA, Jiten Tanti, told The Telegraph today that if Karmakar were not released by Monday, the students would be “forced to attack” Karbi people. “We will also carry out road blockades on NH37 and pressure the government to take necessary steps to ensure safe release of Karmakar,” he said.
He said the ATTSA had already given a memorandum to the manager of the tea estate that labourers would shun work from Monday and be engaged in an “agitation” to be launched by the student body. “We have urged the manager to pay the salary of the labour force at least on Monday although they would not be present for duty,” Tanti said.
The student leader said the people of Karbi Anglong, especially those residing in the Santipur area, were totally dependent on market places at Bokakhat in Golaghat district. “We will stop the Karbi villagers from coming to Bokakhat from Monday if Karmakar is not released by the militants,” he said.
He said such a step was the only option left to pressure the Karbi militants to release Karmakar. “Security forces have failed to rescue Karmakar in the last two days. We are being told operations are on to rescue him, but we cannot just wait and watch,” he said.
Jorhat, July 9: The Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association (ATTSA) today threatened to carry out attacks on Karbi people if the kidnapped employee of the Hatikhuli Tea Estate was not released within the next 24 hours.
Karbi militants kidnapped Bogai Karmakar, a labour sardar of the estate, on Thursday.
Karmakar was inspecting work of women labourers when the suspected rebels, dressed in army fatigues, arrived and demanded the garden manager’s phone number. When he refused to comply, they whisked him away at gunpoint.
Police said, quoting eyewitnesses, there were at least three women among the group of about 12 kidnappers.
Hatikhuli Tea Estate, located along the Golaghat-Karbi Anglong border near Kaziranga National Park, belongs to the Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd, formerly Tata Tea, and is one of the largest organic tea estates in Asia.
The secretary of the Bokakhat unit of the ATTSA, Jiten Tanti, told The Telegraph today that if Karmakar were not released by Monday, the students would be “forced to attack” Karbi people. “We will also carry out road blockades on NH37 and pressure the government to take necessary steps to ensure safe release of Karmakar,” he said.
He said the ATTSA had already given a memorandum to the manager of the tea estate that labourers would shun work from Monday and be engaged in an “agitation” to be launched by the student body. “We have urged the manager to pay the salary of the labour force at least on Monday although they would not be present for duty,” Tanti said.
The student leader said the people of Karbi Anglong, especially those residing in the Santipur area, were totally dependent on market places at Bokakhat in Golaghat district. “We will stop the Karbi villagers from coming to Bokakhat from Monday if Karmakar is not released by the militants,” he said.
He said such a step was the only option left to pressure the Karbi militants to release Karmakar. “Security forces have failed to rescue Karmakar in the last two days. We are being told operations are on to rescue him, but we cannot just wait and watch,” he said.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Nagaland rebels sneak into Dima Hasao district
A group of 25-30 NSCN (IM) cadres has reportedly sneaked into southern Assam's Dima Hasao district from neighbouring Nagaland. This came to light following the arrest of two members of the militant outfit in Haflong on Wednesday night.
Acting on a tip-off, security forces raided Longme and Suratnagar villages near Haflong, the headquarters of Dima Hasao district, on Wednesday night and arrested the two self-styled senior sergeant majors of NSCN (IM) - W A Amos, alias Momo Anal (39), and Thuingalen Sira, alias Aleng (49) - a senior police officer said on Thursday. No arms or ammunitions were found on them, sources said.
During interrogation, the two militants revealed that a group of 30 NSCN(IM) cadres entered Dima Hasao from Nagaland and Manipur recently. They also confessed to the group carrying sophisticated arms and ammunition with them.
"We came to Dima Hasao not to operate or engage in subversive activities, but to make sure that after the split in the NSCN(K) recently, no new militant outfit is born out of them," the arrested cadres said during police interrogation.
Haflong police on Thursday took the duo to the local court, which sent the two to five days' police remand.
Sources said NSCN (IM) militants, who are at truce in Nagaland, have been engaging in extortion activities in Assam's Dima Hasao district after the surrender of major militant groups, including DHD (Nunisa) and DHD (Jewel). The outfit is also known for supply of arms and ammunition and providing arms training to Dima Hasao based militant outfits over the years in exchange of hefty sums of money.
Manipur and Nagaland share a long border with Dima Hasao. In the absence of any inter-state border outposts, the border has turned into a free corridor for militants. The news of fresh sneaking of the Naga militants into Assam proves that vigilance has not been stepped up along the inter-state border, sources said.
On the other hand, BSF director general Raman Srivastava is on a two-day visit to Mizoram and Cachar Frontier beginning on Thursday for taking stock of the situation along Indo-Bangladesh border.
Srivastava's visit is significant because Union external affairs minister S M Krishna is currently on a three-day visit to Bangladesh and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also set to visit to the neighboring country in September.
The director general, who took over charge on August 1, 2009, on Thursday said the force was always willing to maintain a cordial relationship with its counterpart and people on the other side of the border.
Acting on a tip-off, security forces raided Longme and Suratnagar villages near Haflong, the headquarters of Dima Hasao district, on Wednesday night and arrested the two self-styled senior sergeant majors of NSCN (IM) - W A Amos, alias Momo Anal (39), and Thuingalen Sira, alias Aleng (49) - a senior police officer said on Thursday. No arms or ammunitions were found on them, sources said.
During interrogation, the two militants revealed that a group of 30 NSCN(IM) cadres entered Dima Hasao from Nagaland and Manipur recently. They also confessed to the group carrying sophisticated arms and ammunition with them.
"We came to Dima Hasao not to operate or engage in subversive activities, but to make sure that after the split in the NSCN(K) recently, no new militant outfit is born out of them," the arrested cadres said during police interrogation.
Haflong police on Thursday took the duo to the local court, which sent the two to five days' police remand.
Sources said NSCN (IM) militants, who are at truce in Nagaland, have been engaging in extortion activities in Assam's Dima Hasao district after the surrender of major militant groups, including DHD (Nunisa) and DHD (Jewel). The outfit is also known for supply of arms and ammunition and providing arms training to Dima Hasao based militant outfits over the years in exchange of hefty sums of money.
Manipur and Nagaland share a long border with Dima Hasao. In the absence of any inter-state border outposts, the border has turned into a free corridor for militants. The news of fresh sneaking of the Naga militants into Assam proves that vigilance has not been stepped up along the inter-state border, sources said.
On the other hand, BSF director general Raman Srivastava is on a two-day visit to Mizoram and Cachar Frontier beginning on Thursday for taking stock of the situation along Indo-Bangladesh border.
Srivastava's visit is significant because Union external affairs minister S M Krishna is currently on a three-day visit to Bangladesh and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also set to visit to the neighboring country in September.
The director general, who took over charge on August 1, 2009, on Thursday said the force was always willing to maintain a cordial relationship with its counterpart and people on the other side of the border.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Top rebel leader in Bangladesh, say Meghalaya Police
Shillong, July 7 (IANS) Bangladesh authorities have launched a manhunt to nab Champion R. Sangma, an Indian rebel leader, and Meghalaya Police confirmed he has shifted base to the neighbouring country, an official said Wednesday.
Champion, a Meghalaya Police official-turned outlaw, has been camping in Bangladesh for the past three months and frequently travelled to Dhaka from Modhipur town of Tangil district in that country, the official said.
‘Yes, he has been spending his time in Bangladesh for the past three months and shook hands with leaders of Bangladesh-based rebel group, the A’chik Special Dragon Party,’ S.K. Jain, the intelligence chief of Meghalaya Police, told IANS.
A’chik Special Dragon Party is a rebel group and operates along the India-Bangladesh border in the western part of Meghalaya.
The group is believed to have its large presence in Bangladesh’s Mynmensing district, bordering Meghalaya’s Garo Hills region, which has large concentration of tribal Garo population.
‘He (Champion) is there (Bangladesh) to set up training camps with the help of A’chik Special Dragon Party and both these groups have arrived at mutual understanding to help each other,’ Jain said.
Meanwhile, an Indian intelligence official said Bangladesh’s security agencies are tracking down the movement of Champion in and around that Country.
‘He is on the run and it is just a matter of time for them to confirm his identity and he too will fall into the hands of Bangladesh security agencies,’ the intelligence official told IANS.
Champion, who wants to fight for a ‘sovereign Garoland’ in the western area of Meghalaya, has forged a close operational relationship with other northeast-based insurgents groups such as United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
GNLA’s foot soldiers are deserters, mostly from the Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC) and the Liberation of Achik Elite Force (LAEF).
Meghalaya, especially the Garo Hill region, the most backward region, is being used as a safe haven for various northeast-based militants groups.
Champion, a Meghalaya Police official-turned outlaw, has been camping in Bangladesh for the past three months and frequently travelled to Dhaka from Modhipur town of Tangil district in that country, the official said.
‘Yes, he has been spending his time in Bangladesh for the past three months and shook hands with leaders of Bangladesh-based rebel group, the A’chik Special Dragon Party,’ S.K. Jain, the intelligence chief of Meghalaya Police, told IANS.
A’chik Special Dragon Party is a rebel group and operates along the India-Bangladesh border in the western part of Meghalaya.
The group is believed to have its large presence in Bangladesh’s Mynmensing district, bordering Meghalaya’s Garo Hills region, which has large concentration of tribal Garo population.
‘He (Champion) is there (Bangladesh) to set up training camps with the help of A’chik Special Dragon Party and both these groups have arrived at mutual understanding to help each other,’ Jain said.
Meanwhile, an Indian intelligence official said Bangladesh’s security agencies are tracking down the movement of Champion in and around that Country.
‘He is on the run and it is just a matter of time for them to confirm his identity and he too will fall into the hands of Bangladesh security agencies,’ the intelligence official told IANS.
Champion, who wants to fight for a ‘sovereign Garoland’ in the western area of Meghalaya, has forged a close operational relationship with other northeast-based insurgents groups such as United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
GNLA’s foot soldiers are deserters, mostly from the Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC) and the Liberation of Achik Elite Force (LAEF).
Meghalaya, especially the Garo Hill region, the most backward region, is being used as a safe haven for various northeast-based militants groups.
Security personnel nab 3 militants
Manipur Police along with troops of Assam Rifles nabbed three militants in two separate incidents here yesterday. PIB(Defence Wing) today said based on specific information, troops of Assam Rifles apprehended a cadre of United National Liberation Front (UNLF) from Moirang Siribol in Bishnupur District.
He was handed over to Moirang police station, sources said. In another operation, troops of Assam Rifles with Bishnupur police commandos apprehended two cadres of People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak(PREPAK) from Laphupat Tera Mayai Leikai, Imphal West District.
They were handed over to Kumbi Police Station, sources added.
He was handed over to Moirang police station, sources said. In another operation, troops of Assam Rifles with Bishnupur police commandos apprehended two cadres of People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak(PREPAK) from Laphupat Tera Mayai Leikai, Imphal West District.
They were handed over to Kumbi Police Station, sources added.
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