The North East Indian State of Tripura is one plagued by seperatist violence. These terrorists who use Bangladesh as a base recently “they kidnapped 42 traders”:http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=061404010617. Now the Govt. has discovered one of their supporters.
bq. The government in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura says it has evidence that the state’s Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebels. Nagmanlal Halam, secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura, was arrested late on Monday with a large quantity of explosives. Mr Sarkar said that allegations about the close links between the state’s Baptist Church and the rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have long been made by political parties and police. Now for the first time, he said, hard evidence supporting the allegations had been found. [“BBC”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/717775.stm]
According to “GlobalSecurity.org”:http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/nlft.htm
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed in December 1989 for the purpose of seceding from India in order to create an independent Christian fundamentalist state of Tripura. The group was banned under the Unlawful Activies Prevention Act of 1967.
