Operation Leech
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Abandoned Burmese Political Prisoners In the Land of Gandhi
Ashis Biswas | Sunday, March 04, 2007
Call him Basu. Years ago, he worked for an Indian intelligence agency. His job: to fill an intelligence gap related to a group of religious fundamentalists active against the state. In order to successfully fulfill his mission he would need to infiltrate the deepest depths of the fundamentalist outfit. more +
The defence authorities are deliberately adopting dilatory tactics
Rediff.com | Sunday, March 04, 2007
Five months after the incident, the seized weapons have not been handed over to the CBI despite several requests; attempts to interrogate defence personnel who took part in the operation have been repeatedly blocked more +
A web of terror
Frontline | Wednesday, February 11, 1998
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Six gun-runners killed and 74 arrested, when the Indian Navy, in an operation code-named Operation Leech, intercepts mechanised trawlers armed with anti-aircraft guns carrying over 145 automatic weapons and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. more +
Guns, drugs and rebels
Subir Bhaumik | Tuesday, March 06, 2007
INDIA’S Burma policy in the post-colonial era has always been influenced by the ‘China factor’. Addressing the Burma Council of World Affairs on 20 July 1950, Burmese scholar-diplomat U Tun Nyoe said: ‘India’s special interests in Burma cannot be denied more +
Spilling the beans
Subir Bhaumik | Tuesday, March 06, 2007
I am again forced to join issue with Irfan Ahmed and respond to his Response “The inescapable circularity of spytalk” (August 2001, p. 46). Mr Ahmed’s love for “metaphor, irony and stylistic devices of language” ensures he says in three pages what he could have said in four paragraphs. more +
A STORM OVER SECURITY- The admiral takes on the defense minister
Ajay Singh | Sunday, March 04, 2007
BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, Adm. Vishnu Bhagwat was a "defiant officer." When the defense ministry appointed Vice Adm. Harinder Singh as his deputy last year, Bhagwat refused to accept him as his No. 2. more +
Press Release of Solidarity Committee for Burmas Freedom Fighters
SCBFF | Tuesday, March 06, 2007
The Solidarity Committee has been formed on the initiative of Dr. (Col) Lakshmi Sahgal after she red of the terrible of detention of 34 Burmese freedom fighters in Presidency jail in Kolkata. more +
India Supreme Court issues notice to CBI on Burmese detainees of Operation Leech
Narinjara News | Wednesday, November 17, 2004
The Supreme Court of India issued notices on Nov. 16 to India''s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and authorities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on a petition seeking release of 36 Burmese "freedom fighters" arrested six years ago more +
Come clean
Indian Express | Tuesday, May 11, 1999
Whoever thought up the codename could never have imagined that Operation Leech would end up feeding off the credibility of so many branches of the Indian government causing it lasting embarrassment at home and abroad. more +
Press Release
Ministry of Defence | Thursday, November 28, 2002
A combined service operation (Operation Leech) was undertaken in February 1998 to intercept arms deliveries meant for Indian insurgent groups in the northeast. In this operation, 73 foreign nationals were apprehended and 138 weapons along with a large more +
India Supreme Court notice to CBI on Burmese detainees of Operation Leech
Narinjara News | Wednesday, November 17, 2004
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday issued notices to the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI) and authorities in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on a petition seeking release of 36 Burmese Ć¢ā‚¬Å“freedom fightersĆ¢ā‚¬Ā¯ arrested six years ago by the Indian Army more +
George friend of Burmese rebels, says Bhagwat
Mizzima News Group | Monday, March 05, 2001
Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, sacked as Chief of Naval Staff by the present Indian government on 30th December 1998, accused the Defence Minister George Fernandes of being an active supporter of the Burmese militant groups more +
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