New Delhi
5 December 2009
India is in touch with the neighbouring countries to nab the elusive ‘commander-
in-chief’ of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Paresh Baruah.
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said here Saturday that India will continue to seek to
apprehend Baruah, for which necessary contacts have and will be made with the
countries bordering India.
Talking tough, she also said that India has asked her neighbours to behave responsibly
on the issue.
"Paresh Baruah is wanted in India for crime against Indian state, against Indian people
and we continue to seek his apprehension and we are in touch with neighbouring
countries about these matters. And, we expect all neighbours to behave responsibly on
this issue," she said.
Baruah is the head of the military wing of ULFA, which is a banned organisation.
According to sources, Baruah, who has been hiding in Bangladesh for many years, had
moved to China earlier this year and now had been located in Burma's Kachin region
bordering China’s Yunan province.
The sources said that Chinese official agencies were helping Baruah, not only on
Chinese territory but also in Burma.
Raju Baruah, Paresh's deputy, who has reportedly surrendered, has told Indian security
agencies about the ULFA cadres receiving arms training at camps in China.
ULFA’s ‘foreign secretary’ Sashadhar Choudhury and ‘finance secretary’ Chitrabon
Hazarika, who had surrendered earlier, also told Indian interrogators that the outfit was
getting its arms from Chinese manufacturers.
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