Crackdown on northeast insurgent groups to continue: Dipu
Friday, 11 July 2014
The government will continue its crackdown on all the northeast insurgent groups which had operated from Bangladesh territory during previous regimes, said former Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni, reports UNB.
"These operations are continuous as evident from the Rapid Action Battalion's recovery of a huge quantity of weapons at Satcherri near the border with Tripura," said Dipu who now heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Dipu Moni said this on the sidelines of the Tripura Conclave in Agartala Wednesday evening, reports TripuraInfoWay news.
Dipu said the present government will never allow its territory for export of terror. "We appreciate India's security concerns in the Northeast and we will continue to crush all insurgents from the region who try to use the soil of Bangladesh," she said.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Dipu Moni has called for symbiotic relations and extended multilateral cooperation among Bangladesh, India and other Southeast Asian countries for mutual benefits.
Dipu Moni said when the Awami League (AL) was out of power in Bangladesh, 'other regimes in league with some countries exporting terror' started sponsoring insurgents from northeast India.
"But when our government came to power in January 2009, we decided to crack down on these groups. I can say they've been decapitated to a large extent."
She said Bangladesh was also a victim of terrorism of the worst kind that was unleashed during the rundown to the Jan 5 elections. "Petrol bombs were thrown on buses and trains, there was organised sabotage on railway tracks, innocent men and women were killed."
But she said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stood firm and organised the elections despite all the mayhem.
She said Bangladesh is determined to cooperate with all neighbours to eliminate all forms of terror in the eastern reaches of South Asia. "We're a democracy and protest is part of democracy but there's no place for terror. And it is the bounden duty of all elected government to crush terror."