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| Bangladesh has 117 camps of Indian insurgent groups: official |
| 2008-04-23 |
| (KUNA) -- India Tuesday asserted that Bangladesh houses at least 117 camps of the insurgent groups from the country's Northeast. "During the Director General (DG)-level meeting of border guards of India and Bangladesh at Delhi, earlier this month, New Delhi handed over to Dhaka a list of 117 insurgent camps," Indian Minister of State for Home Radhika V Selvi told Parliament in a written reply today. "However, information about the specific action taken by the Bangladesh authorities is not available," Selvi added. Last year, the Indian government had handed over a list of 141 camps of insurgent groups on Bangladesh territory during the DG-level meeting of border guards in Dhaka. India shares a 4,096-km-long border with Bangladesh. Several insurgent groups from India's Northeast operate from Bangladesh. New Delhi has sought deportation of top leaders of these groups. New Delhi had also stated that Bangladeshi territory is being used by the insurgents of Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami. The group is responsible for several terror attacks across India over the past few years. ( |
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