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URGENT NEWS - India, Myanmar agree



Subject: URGENT NEWS - India, Myanmar agree to a joint drive against ultras

Headlines       Vol. 2 Issue 25-26     Nov. 7- Nov. 21 , 1999

Oriental Times / NENA

India, Myanmar agree to a joint drive against ultras

In a significant development, Indian and Myanmar army have decided to
launch a joint
drive to flush out the militants within a short period, sources said.
The military officials of
Myanmar also asked the Indian authority to find out and hand over the
pro-democracy
Myanmarese activists who are presently taking asylum in Manipur. 

At the same time Indian authorities also asked the Myanmarese authority
to trace out the
hideouts of the underground activists inside Myanmar. It may be
mentioned here that more
than 150 pro- democracy activists including National Democratic League
(NLD) MP of
Myanmar were taking shelter inside the Indian territory. Indian
Government has been
treating them as refugee and they are kept in the refugee centres in
Chandel district. The
State Government as well as the Central Government also provided
necessary funds for
them for the last two decades. 

Over and above, Union Defence Minister George Fernandes is actively
involved in the
rehabilitation programmes of the pro-democracy activists of Myanmar. He
also rendered
necessary help to the pro-democracy activists, whenever he visited
Manipur. Mr.
Fernandes pays visit to Myanmarese camps in Moreh. 

It is also learnt that 17-member Indian delegation led by Colonel Kadian
Commandant of 3
Assam Rifles also talked with the Myanmarese team led by Brigadier
General Soe Nyint,
Deputy Commandant NW. India also put it across that it was not at all
happy that some
North East insurgents have set up bases in Myanmar. The Indian
delegation also asked
their Myanmarese counterparts to check the inflow of drugs into the
Indian soil. 

Sources further said that the two countries reportedly expressed
satisfaction with the
progress of the construction of the road connecting Tamu and Kalimyu
inside Myanmar.