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HILLONG: A hardcore Ulfa militant on Tuesday revealed that at least three camps of the banned outfit, housing over 100 rebels, are still active in Myanmar. Not only that, they have close nexus with the NSCN (K) as well, he said.
Gobin Ojha alias Kiran Jyoti Gogoi, who has been one of the key inmates in the camps having several rebels under his command, surrendered at the BSF's Assam-Meghalaya Frontier headquarters here along with a Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militant, Arun Terong.
The duo, involved in extortion, bomb blasts, kidnapping and killings, handed over two pistols and a few rounds of ammunition before BSF IG Prithvi Raj on the occasion of the force's (Assam & Meghalaya Frontier) 45th Rising Day.
The Ulfa militant later told newspersons that about 110 rebels, including some women, belonging to the outfit's 28th battalion were living in a pathetic condition at the three camps in the jungles of Myanmar. "They don't get proper food and medicines. Life's very difficult there," Gobin said.
"Bijoy Das, the commander of Ulfa's 28th battalion, was also operating from one of those camps," he added. "The Khaplang faction of NSCN, too, has camps in the area and both the groups had a close nexus," said Gobin, a native of Assam's Sivasagar district who had joined Ulfa in 2005.
Incidentally, the Ulfa's 28th battalion had owned up to the recent attack on a train in Assam's Golaghat district. Sixteen wagons of the train, carrying high-speed diesel from Numaligarh Oil Refinery to Panki in Uttar Pradesh, were destroyed in the blast.
On the other hand, Terong, the KLNLF militant, was the bodyguard of the outfit's general secretary and was involved in two bomb blasts at the Diphu railway station and another in front of a temple, also in Diphu, Karbi Anglong, in November, 2007.
HILLONG: A hardcore Ulfa militant on Tuesday revealed that at least three camps of the banned outfit, housing over 100 rebels, are still active in Myanmar. Not only that, they have close nexus with the NSCN (K) as well, he said.
Gobin Ojha alias Kiran Jyoti Gogoi, who has been one of the key inmates in the camps having several rebels under his command, surrendered at the BSF's Assam-Meghalaya Frontier headquarters here along with a Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militant, Arun Terong.
The duo, involved in extortion, bomb blasts, kidnapping and killings, handed over two pistols and a few rounds of ammunition before BSF IG Prithvi Raj on the occasion of the force's (Assam & Meghalaya Frontier) 45th Rising Day.
The Ulfa militant later told newspersons that about 110 rebels, including some women, belonging to the outfit's 28th battalion were living in a pathetic condition at the three camps in the jungles of Myanmar. "They don't get proper food and medicines. Life's very difficult there," Gobin said.
"Bijoy Das, the commander of Ulfa's 28th battalion, was also operating from one of those camps," he added. "The Khaplang faction of NSCN, too, has camps in the area and both the groups had a close nexus," said Gobin, a native of Assam's Sivasagar district who had joined Ulfa in 2005.
Incidentally, the Ulfa's 28th battalion had owned up to the recent attack on a train in Assam's Golaghat district. Sixteen wagons of the train, carrying high-speed diesel from Numaligarh Oil Refinery to Panki in Uttar Pradesh, were destroyed in the blast.
On the other hand, Terong, the KLNLF militant, was the bodyguard of the outfit's general secretary and was involved in two bomb blasts at the Diphu railway station and another in front of a temple, also in Diphu, Karbi Anglong, in November, 2007.
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