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| 'New strategy needed to combat separatist, Islamists' |
| 2006-11-02 |
| GUWAHATI: Security chiefs in India’s northeast states Wednesday called for a new strategy to combat the twin threats of separatist insurgencies and Islamic militancy that afflict the region. “There is a need for an effective counter-insurgency operation having full synergy between all security forces to deal with the many insurgencies in the region, besides the serious threat from fundamentalist pan-Islamic groups,” Dipak Narayan Dutt, police chief of the northeast state of Assam, said. “Smuggling of arms and explosives, narcotics and counterfeit currency notes is another area of serious concern in the region,” Dutt said. Dutt made the remarks at the start of a two-day conference of police chiefs of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh states.The meeting in Assam’s main city of Guwahati, was also attended by police chiefs of West Bengal and Sikkim, as well as army, paramilitary, intelligence and federal home ministry officials. India’s resource-rich northeast, wedged between Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar, is home to more than 30-odd rebel armies with demands ranging from secession to greater autonomy. |
| Posted by:Fred |