Source: The Sangai Express
Shillong, November 28:
The Border Security Force today claimed that 192 camps of various militant outfits of the North East existed in Bangladesh.
�Some of the old camps were removed and some new camps have come up.
Earlier, the number (of camps) was 205, now it is 192,� BSF�s Inspector General of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland (AMM&N) Frontier A K Ghosh told reporters here.
�These camps existed in Mymensingh, Sherpur, Rangamati, Molavi Bazar districts and Chittagong Hill Tracts,� he said.
Asked if the reduction in number of camps would show some indication of action taken by authorities in Dhaka as demanded by India, the IG said some old ones were removed indeed but some new ones have came up.
On Bangladesh�s persistent denial of any camps on its soil, the IG said that for obvious reasons, no country would ever admit militants� existence within its territory.
He said India would keep on insisting to Bangaldesh about the existence of camps and asking it to dismantle these - notwithstanding Dhaka�s denial.
The BSF IG�s statement came just a couple of days after Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang voicing concern over the existence of camps to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and urging him to take it up through diplomatic channels.
On another BSF claim of ULFA leaders running hotels and bank accounts in Bangladesh, which was made public last year, the IG said Dhaka officials had indeed found those accounts but in �different names�.
Before they could do anything, money was withdrawn from those accounts.
Even names of the hotels were also changed.