TIWN Special / News, Photo credit to Rasel Chowdhury, bdnews24.com
Habiganj, Bangladesh, June 3 (TIWN): RAB has unearthed a huge arms cache in the Satcherri jungles of Habiganj's Chunarughat upazila from what was once perhaps the headquarters of the now-weakened All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF).200 rocket launchers with as many chargers, some anti-tank shells, more than 200 mortar shells and many other weapons were recovered by RAB-9 personnel who started operations in the Satcherri jungles on Sunday, RAB officials said.Satcherri is barely 3 kms from the border with India's Tripura state.
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Barua , now absconding, is believed to hiding somewhere around Tengchong in the Sino-Burmese border.
The ULFA and ATTF would smuggle huge quantity of Chinese-made weapons through south-east Asia by sea, land them around Cox's Bazar or Chittagong take them to rebel bases like Satcherri , from where they would be smuggled into India's troubled northeast.
The ATTF asked for 1 million Indian rupees even for returning his dead body to his family.
Following Sheikh Hasina's Awami League coming to power and the crackdown on the Northeastern rebel groups that followed, the ATTF demobilised its Satcherri base but there are reports they used it for moving weapons
TIWN File Photo : ATTF Supremo Ranjit Debbarma being taken to court at Agartala on January 29, 2013
Note : Special thanks & Credit to Journalist Rasel Chowdhury, bdnews24.com , Habiganj
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