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The ATTF and the NLFT have been demanding independence for indigenous tribals and Tripura’s secession from India.
“After Bangladesh’s security forces launched a massive crackdown against the terrorists, a large number of extremists fled from their Bangladeshi hideouts and camps. They are either surrendering to Indian security forces or nabbed or taking shelter in a safer places in the neighbouring country,” a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, Border Security Forces (BSF) Inspector-General (Assam-Meghalaya frontier) Prithvi Raj told reporters in Meghalaya capital Shillong that the militants from the northeast are shifting their base from Bangladesh to Myanmar in the wake of the ongoing operations against Indian rebels by Dhaka.
According to Tripura police, about 360 members of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and NLFT, including many carrying rewards of Rs.250,000 and with Interpol arrest warrants against them,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, have fled from their Bangladeshi camps and surrendered to Indian security forces this year.
Agartala,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, Dec 26 (IANS) Paramilitary troopers have apprehended eight heavily armed tribal guerrillas including a young woman in Tripura,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, officials said Saturday.
“During a counter-insurgency operation,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, Assam Rifles troopers Friday night detained eight dreaded terrorists of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in north Tripura’s Kanchanpur area,” said Assam Rifles spokesman Dinesh Thakur.
A large cache of arms and ammunition including US-made carbines and revolvers were recovered from the eight.
Militants belonging to various rebel groups in the northeast region had set up about 100 camps and hideouts in different parts of Bangladesh, specially Sylhet district and Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) bordering India’s Tripura,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, Mizoram and Meghalaya states.

Eight tribal separatists arrested in Tripura
A senior police official said that the arrested separatists led by their self-styled “captain” Dube Reang fled from their hideouts in Chittagong Hill tracts of southeast Bangladesh earlier this week before sneaking into India.
The arrested guerrillas are being interrogated by senior police officials.