Mrinal Hazarika, the leader of a pro-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has said that Bangladesh has “betrayed” and “backstabbed” them, after the group’s top leaders recently landed in the net of Indian security forces close to the border.
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Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Thursday, Hazarika said: “The Bangladesh government has stabbed ULFA because for so many days Arabinda Rajkhowa, the self-styled chairman of ULFA was in Bangladesh but now they held talks with India and handed over him to India, definitely we feel betrayed.”
Rajkhowa was arrested after he turned up near India’s border with Bangladesh and produced before a court in Guwahati on December 5.
In less than a month, the ULFA has been dealt a body blow with the arrest of the group’s top leaders including Rajkhowa, Raju Baruah, Chitraban Hazarika, Sacha Chaudhary. Only the group’s military commander, Paresh Barua, who police believe to be in hiding somewhere along Myanmar-China border, still remains elusive.
