03-14-2008, 11:07 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BSF claims BDR silenced by proof</b>
Friday, March 14, 2008
<b>Shillong, March 13: For the first time, the Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over a list of 141 camps of Indian militants with their exact locations inside Bangladesh, 116 militants and 198 sympathisers to its Bangladesh counterpart BDR.
The list was handed over after a three-day meeting between the two forces, which ended on Thursday.</b>
After the meeting, BSF Inspector-General (Assam-Meghalaya, Cachar and Manipur Frontier) P K Mishra told reporters, âBDR was taken aback when we pointed out specific names, locations of militants and insurgent camps in Bangladesh and could not contradict our claims.â
The BSF claims have been made on the basis of information provided by surrendered chairman of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) Julius Dorphang â who had taken refuge inside Bangladesh â and seven NSCN (I-M) cadres.
âWe have sought an outright assurance from BDR to trace these militants and launch a crackdown on the camps,â Mishra said.
<b>Mishra said the Bangladesh Army raid on September 13, 2007, in Balaghat that led to the arrest of an Assamese man and seizure of 32,000 rounds of ammunitions and a few kilogrammes of RDX was an instance of Indian militants using Bangladesh to smuggle arms and ammunitions into India.
âThough BDR admitted to the arrest, they failed to brief us on follow-up action,â he added.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>42,896 Bangladeshis infiltrated into Assam</b>
Thursday, March 13, 2008
GUWAHATI, MARCH 13: While the Congress-led regimes in Assam and at the Centre continued to maintain that infiltration from Bangladesh was not a big problem, its <b>official data, laid on the floor of the state Assembly on Wednesday, revealed that over 42,000 persons have been identified as âillegal migrantsâ in the state between 1985 and 2007.</b>
<b>However, what is more alarming is the official admittance that of the 42,896 illegal migrants identified during those 22 years, the Government could deport only 2,221 of them to where they had come from. The rest of themâ40,675 to be preciseâhave gone unnoticed.
âAltogether 42,896 persons have been identified as Bangladeshi infiltrators in the state since the signing of the Assam Accord in 1985 and till December 31, 2007,â Bhumidhar Barman, Minister for Implementation of Assam Accord said in the Assembly. He was replying to a question by Ramendra Narayan Kalita of the Asom Gana Parishad.
He said while 12,846 were identified and confirmed as Bangladeshi infiltrators by the tribunals established under the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act â an Act that was struck down in 2005, the remaining 30,050 were identified under provisions of the Foreigners Act of 1946.
âIt has been possible, however, to actually deport only 2,221 of them,â the minister said, without citing any reasons thereof. While 1,547 of them were deported by serving expulsion orders on them, 667 were expelled by serving âQuit Indiaâ notices, Barman said.</b>
The Government, through replies in the Assembly in the past, had always maintained that most of the persons identified as âinfiltratorsâ actually disappeared from the places where they were during identification and mingled with the local population, thus making it impossible for the police to locate them.
Meanwhile, Barman on Wednesday also informed the Assembly that the deadline for updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is intended at identifying Bangladeshi infiltrators in Assam, has been postponed till December, 2009.
The minister said while the state Government had completed the preliminary works for updating the NRC of 1951, but was yet to send its views to the Registrar General of India on the modalities for accomplishing the task.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Friday, March 14, 2008
<b>Shillong, March 13: For the first time, the Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over a list of 141 camps of Indian militants with their exact locations inside Bangladesh, 116 militants and 198 sympathisers to its Bangladesh counterpart BDR.
The list was handed over after a three-day meeting between the two forces, which ended on Thursday.</b>
After the meeting, BSF Inspector-General (Assam-Meghalaya, Cachar and Manipur Frontier) P K Mishra told reporters, âBDR was taken aback when we pointed out specific names, locations of militants and insurgent camps in Bangladesh and could not contradict our claims.â
The BSF claims have been made on the basis of information provided by surrendered chairman of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) Julius Dorphang â who had taken refuge inside Bangladesh â and seven NSCN (I-M) cadres.
âWe have sought an outright assurance from BDR to trace these militants and launch a crackdown on the camps,â Mishra said.
<b>Mishra said the Bangladesh Army raid on September 13, 2007, in Balaghat that led to the arrest of an Assamese man and seizure of 32,000 rounds of ammunitions and a few kilogrammes of RDX was an instance of Indian militants using Bangladesh to smuggle arms and ammunitions into India.
âThough BDR admitted to the arrest, they failed to brief us on follow-up action,â he added.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>42,896 Bangladeshis infiltrated into Assam</b>
Thursday, March 13, 2008
GUWAHATI, MARCH 13: While the Congress-led regimes in Assam and at the Centre continued to maintain that infiltration from Bangladesh was not a big problem, its <b>official data, laid on the floor of the state Assembly on Wednesday, revealed that over 42,000 persons have been identified as âillegal migrantsâ in the state between 1985 and 2007.</b>
<b>However, what is more alarming is the official admittance that of the 42,896 illegal migrants identified during those 22 years, the Government could deport only 2,221 of them to where they had come from. The rest of themâ40,675 to be preciseâhave gone unnoticed.
âAltogether 42,896 persons have been identified as Bangladeshi infiltrators in the state since the signing of the Assam Accord in 1985 and till December 31, 2007,â Bhumidhar Barman, Minister for Implementation of Assam Accord said in the Assembly. He was replying to a question by Ramendra Narayan Kalita of the Asom Gana Parishad.
He said while 12,846 were identified and confirmed as Bangladeshi infiltrators by the tribunals established under the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act â an Act that was struck down in 2005, the remaining 30,050 were identified under provisions of the Foreigners Act of 1946.
âIt has been possible, however, to actually deport only 2,221 of them,â the minister said, without citing any reasons thereof. While 1,547 of them were deported by serving expulsion orders on them, 667 were expelled by serving âQuit Indiaâ notices, Barman said.</b>
The Government, through replies in the Assembly in the past, had always maintained that most of the persons identified as âinfiltratorsâ actually disappeared from the places where they were during identification and mingled with the local population, thus making it impossible for the police to locate them.
Meanwhile, Barman on Wednesday also informed the Assembly that the deadline for updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is intended at identifying Bangladeshi infiltrators in Assam, has been postponed till December, 2009.
The minister said while the state Government had completed the preliminary works for updating the NRC of 1951, but was yet to send its views to the Registrar General of India on the modalities for accomplishing the task.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->