India, Bhutan discuss ULFA uprising

New Delhi, Aug. 11: Bhutan and India’s top military brass discussed the security situation after reports that United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is re-activating bases in Bhutan.

The subject became the top agenda during the meeting of the visiting Bhutanese Army Chief Maj. Gen. Batoo Tshering and his Indian counterpart Gen. J J Singh in Delhi.
 
Tshering arrived here on Thursday evening and met Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee to begin his official engagements on Friday.
 
The meeting between the army chiefs of the two countries comes as the Army Chief Gen J J Singh has just returned after a four-day visit to Asom state, where he studied the stepping up of attacks by the ULFA cadres.
 
The Bhutan army had launched ‘Operation All Clear’ in 2002 to flush out the ULFA camps from eastern Bhutan, where the rebels had been staying since early 1990 when the Bhutanese king invited them to launch their operation from Bhutan. Bhutan News Service