The militant outfits of Northeastern states are procuring arms and ammunitions from Narinco Ordnance Factory of China.
In a startling revelation NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary has also disclosed that NSCN (I-M) leader Anthony Simrey, who heads the foreign command (Ali Command) of the N
aga rebel group, is the key conduit in facilitating supply of illegal arms and ammunitions to the Northeast rebel groups through sea and land route of Bangladesh and Burma.
The security sources who are interrogating the NDFB chief in police custody after his eviction from Bangladesh said that the NDFB paid a huge amount to the NSCN (I-M) for supply of 2,000 AK rifles but they could get only 600 arms as coast guard of Bangladesh intercepted the consignment dispatched by Narinco Ordnance Factory of China through Anthony Shimrey.
Except Metei rebel groups of Manipur like UNLF and PLA, all the separatist outfits of Northeastern states are supplied arms and ammunition by NSCN leader who recently supplied a consignment of about 35 AK series rifles to a fledgling armed rebel group Garo National Liberation Front (GNLF). The NSCN (I-M) is suspected to have floated the rebel group to create unrest in Garo Hills of Meghalaya.
The NDFB chief, who claimed to have lost a large number of arms and ammunitions as a faction of the outfit joined the ceasefire with the government in 2004, admitted to have been holding 150 arms of AK series besides 180 cadres of the outfit spread over to their bases in Bangladesh, Burma and Assam.
Admitting to have got in touch with Chinese agencies for procuring arms and ammunition, Daimary has also confessed his link with Pakistan’s ISI.