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<b>Anti-India rebels seeks sanctuary in China</b>
Three Indian separatist groups fleeing a military offensive in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan on Sunday appealed to China to grant them temporary shelter in that country.

Arabinda Rajkhowa, chief of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), indicated the rebels had been pushed to the Bhutan-China border and could be forced to enter Chinese territory "extra-legally".

"We have come under massive military attack by joined forces of India and Bhutan and our combatants are forced to retreat up to the Sino-Bhutan border due to the all out air and artillery campaigns," Rajkhowa said a letter addressed to the chairman of the People's Republic of China.

"In this moment, they have no other option but to enter the territory of the People's Republic of China extra-legally to save their lives.

"We would like to request you and your people to permit them safe passage to your territory and minimum temporary hospitality necessary for their survival."

Bhutan launched a military operation on December 15 to evict some 3,000 anti-India rebels hiding in the Himalayan kingdom.

Rajkhowa's letter, a copy of which was received by IANS, said the militants currently on the run in Bhutan were faced with hunger and hostile weather.

"The combatants were facing sub-zero temperature and starvation without any clothes and food," he said.

"We would be obliged if you show your traditional kindness and great revolutionary zeal to our brothers-in-arms in this very moment of exigency," he said.

Rajkhowa said his letter was written also on behalf of the two other rebel groups -- the National Democratic Front of Bodoland and the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation -- that are facing a crackdown in Bhutan.

China had helped anti-India rebels, primarily Naga militants, in the 1960s. Groups of Naga rebels were trained in China, but this assistance ended with a thaw in Sino-Indian relations.

Bhutan, a largely Buddhist state of 700,000 people, is wedged between India and China.

The ULFA, fighting for an independent homeland in India's northeastern state of Assam, had earlier sought sanctuary in China sometime in the mid-1980s.

<b>Several top ULFA leaders then approached China's Communist regime for "help and support" but did not get a positive response from the authorities there, an Indian intelligence official said.</b>

"China is the likely country which they can approach for shelter with the distance manageable for their cadres to cross," the intelligence official said.

<b>"It is unlikely China would agree to grant access as bilateral relations between Beijing and New Delhi have become better in recent years."</b>


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