Huge arms haul in Habiganj

RAB have unearthed a huge arms cache in the Satchharhi jungles of Habiganj's Chunarughat Upazila from what was once perhaps the headquarters of the now-weakened All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF). The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has in the past used the ATTF's Satchharhi base to stock up weapons that were finally smuggled into Northeast India for use by their fighters. The ATTF is now weakened and its chief Ranjit Debbarma was handed over to India by Bangladesh after being arrested in Jan 2013. Debbarma, who is standing trial in Tripura on countless charges of murder and abduction, is very close to ULFA military wing chief Paresh Barua who has been awarded a death sentence in the 2004 Chittagong arms cases. Barua, now absconding, is believed to be hiding somewhere around Tengchong in the Sino-Burmese border, according to bdnews24.com.