[Assam] Guns, drugs and rebels

[mc mahant]

Let us enjoy a little from the Bottom  of this epic:
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Even after
losing close to a thousand pieces of weapons in Bhutan, the ULFA military wing
chief Paresh Barua told this writer that ?weapons were no cause of worry, loss of men was.16   
 Indian intelligence reports
suggest that the ULFA has become the major conduit for these weapons for a
whole host of rebel groups from the Nepal Maoists to the Peoples War in the
Indian mainland. The ULFA has ?been frying fish in
its own oil? ? buying weapons from the Yunnan mafia and selling it to the Nepali and the
Indian Maoists or the Islamic jihadis in Bangladesh at double the price, good enough
to pay for their own acquisitions.( This 
is  simple Capitalist Success  story – “Growth%”)





>From
Bogura in Bangladesh to Calcutta in West Bengal to Chittagong in April last
year, huge quantities of weapons meant for the ULFA or for forwarding to its
many clients have been seized. The quantities varied from a few truckloads in
Bogura in western Bangladesh to a whole shipload good enough to arm a whole
army division in Chittagong . A
regional expert,( Who?) however, asserts that the huge quantities of
weapons seized at Chittagong port on 2 April 2004 , had originated in Hong Kong
, ?which was shipped to Singapore where more weapons were added.?17

The easy availability of cheap
weapons from China ,
either transported through the land route by the Yunnan mafia through Burmese
territory, or brought by sea on trawlers through the Bay of Bengal , will
remain a major source of worry for Delhi . These are routes it will have to block ( 1000Km jungles/steep Hills ?)  to control insurgency and militancy in the country?s Northeast( Hopefully
forever?) and in neighbouring countries like Nepal and Bangladesh( Courtesy 4 lane NH/Indiarail? .



Ever since
the Chinese stopped( ?) official
help to the insurgents of Northeast India , are these rebel groups in a position to access and buy
huge quantities of weapons at very affordable prices. That would mean they can
raise more recruits and arm them. Indian military officials say unless this new
weapons route is blocked (a) the northeast Indian rebel groups
will have much more arms to fight with; (b) they will have much more money raised
through weapons trafficking to other groups; and (c) they will have close fraternal ties with
these groups and have access to their support networks in the subcontinent and
abroad that may have a direct bearing on their potential to
make trouble.(For Whom?)




  Advice from BBC/Subir Bhow./Tripura-  Bangal??India will have to( Is Digomborom Listening?) engage? China on this whole issue of small arms
proliferation in South Asia . But until such time the Chinese are
willing to restrain a very profit-making weapons industry for the sake of
regional peace and stability, India will
have put huge pressure on the Burmese military junta to stop the thriving
Yunnan-Upper Burma-Northeast India weapons route.(   Very Good Advice!!!)
mm