Source: The Sangai Express
Guawahati, November 22:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said Myanmar and Bangladesh will help India deal with the North East insurgent outfits sheltering in those countries.
"We have made separate representations to Myanmar and Bangladesh to provide us assistance in dealing with North East-based militant groups in those countries," he told reporters here.
"Myanmar in particular has assured us that it will not allow insurgents to work against our country from its soil," he informed.
The Assam Government has been pressurising the Centre to approach the two countries to flush out the militants sheltering there after escaping from Bhutan following the crackdown on them.
In a memorandum to the Prime Minister, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appealed him to flush out militants who were operating from their bases in Myanmar and Bangladesh following the Bhutan operations.
"There is also a concern about illegal migration from Bangladesh", Singh said and lamented that Dhaka had denied it though it was strengthening its border management.
"Our border fencing with Bangladesh has to be of the Jammu and Kashmir type with barbed wire and electric fencing," he said.
"We are trying to do what we can to stop infiltration.
However, I must make it clear that the IMDT Act is not designed to encourage infiltration.