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India: Bangladesh helps ULFA terrorists

NEW DELHI, June 15 (UPI) -- India has accused Bangladesh of sheltering the head of outlawed insurgent group ULFA, Paresh Baruah, and helping him run his terror network from there.

The Asian Age newspaper reported Thursday that police in the northeast Indian province of Assam have released the addresses of 12 houses where Baruah has lived since 1990.

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"We have arrested at least three (United Liberation Front of Assam) activists who went to Pakistan for training through Bangladesh. ULFA insurgents were given fake passports in Dhaka to enter into Pakistan," said Khagen Sarma, intelligence police chief of Assam.

Admitting that the police need to strengthen their network to counter the propaganda of insurgent groups, Sarma said: "We have investigated each and every case of violence denied by ULFA, and the police has conclusive evidence in each case to substantiate charges of ULFA's involvement."

Some people in Britain are also acting as fronts for ULFA and providing logistic support to the rebels, Sarma said.

"We are keeping a close watch on all such people, either in Assam or abroad," he said, adding the insurgent group has several front organisations, none of which he specified.

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