‘Barua had close ties with Khaleda’s son’

ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Barua maintained close links with former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Zia, and the two had interacted in at least three meetings, leading to the infamous Chittagong arms haul of April 2004.

It was only last week that a senior Army officer in the Northeast had said that Barua was shuttling between his hideouts in Myanmar close to the Chinese province of Yunnan and different countries of Southeast Asia. Barua is also believed to have made a couple of trips to some towns near Kunming, the Yunnan capital in the past two or three years.

While the ULFA has five to six important camps there, Barua is also putting up in one of the camps in Myanmar. “He keeps shuttling between his hideout in Myanmar and different Southeast Asian countries. But he cannot afford to be one place and keeps returning to Myanmar every now and then,” Lt Gen NK Singh, GOC of the Army’s 3 Corps at Rangapahar (Nagaland), said last week.

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