The Chinese security agencies have assured to extend all kinds of support to Northeast separatist groups if they form an alliance for a coordinated fight against India.
Disclosing that a meeting of Northeast separatist rebel leaders with senior officers of Public Security Bureau of China was held in April 2010 at Ruili, Yunnan, an
authoritative security source told this newspaper that PSB officials asked the leaders of the separatist outfits operating in the Northeast to form an alliance for a coordinated armed fight against India. Pointing out that the behaviour of the PSB official was dictatorial, security sources said that most of the separatist rebel groups have been approaching China for their support.
Informing that NSCN leader S.S. Khaplang, elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah and United National Liberation Front (UNLF) chairman Rajkumar Meghen besides the leaders of smaller militant groups of Manipur were present in the April, 2010 meeting, the security source said that Northeast rebel groups agreed to form a common platform on the pattern of Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front, which was formed in 1992 to avail the support of China. However, UNLF chairman Meghen, who returned to Bangladesh after his meeting with Chinese PSB official, was arrested and deported back to India and is now languishing in the Guwahati Central Jail.
The source pointed out that PSB officials reiterated that resource to engage India will not be a problem but instead of approaching them individually, they should come through a common platform. They also cited the example of Jammu and Kashmir on Western Frontier and Red Army of Maoists, which through coordinated operations, has engaged India, security sources said adding that Baruah was operating from Taka area of Burma, the hideout of NSCN Khaplang adjoining the Mon district of Nagaland.
The security source said that the presence of Ulfa chief in the area came to notice soon after he left Dhaka.