CPI(M) urges B'desh to demolish rebel camps

Agartala, May 28: The CPI(M)'s Tripura state committee has urged the Bangladesh authorities to demolish the camps of the Indian rebels in their territory and hand over the militants to their Indian counterparts.

At the end of the party's two-day state committee meeting, a spokesperson said the committee had described as 'positive incident' the recent handover of nine Tripura based militants by the Bangladesh authorities.

On Wednesday, the Bangladesh Rifles handed over nine people, reportedly National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants, to Tripura police after they had served jail terms in that country for illegal entry and possessing AK-47 rifles, Chinese pistols and grenades.

The committee felt that vested interests, both within the country and abroad, had hatched a conspiracy in connivance with the terrorists operating from their hideouts in Bangladesh to dislodge the democratically elected Left Front Government of the state.

It said in the past two months these terrorists had killed five people, including three securitymen, and injured seven. In operations against the terrorists during the same period, three terrorists were killed and seven arrested. Besides sophisticated weapons, ammunition and explosives were recovered from them. Two militants were also killed in fighting.

It said during the same period 29 terrorists had fled from their camps in Bangladesh and surrendered before the security personnel with sophisticated arms, ammunition and explosives.

UNI