by Mungpi, New Delhi (Mizzima) - Detained for the past 11 years, Burmese rebels on Thursday told the City Sessions Court in India’s Kolkata city that they were falsely framed and demanded justice.

The rebels, currently lodged in Kolkata’s Presidency Jail, told the more +

Examination of Plaintiffs Witnesses Ends in Freedom Fighter Case
Narinjara News | Monday, September 07, 2009
The examination of the Indian government's witnesses in the trial of 34 Arakanese and Karen freedom fighters came to a close on 2 September after the last witness was questioned by the judge in the Kolkata court in West Bengal Province, according to a source close to the freedom fighters on trial. more +

21 Protesters Arrested in Dhaka
Narinjara News | Monday, June 22, 2009
21 Arakanese protesters were arrested by Bangladesh police today in Dhaka while they were staging a demonstration for the 34 Arakanese and Karen freedom fighters who have been detained by the Indian government since 1998. more +

20 Myanmar nationals detained in city
The Daily Star | Monday, June 22, 2009
UNB, DhakaPolice today detained 20 Myanmar nationals while demonstrating in front of Indian High Commission in Gulshan to press freedom of 34 Myanmar politicians languishing in Indian jails. more +

Leading Exile Student Group Appeals to Indian PM on Behalf of Freedom Fighters
Narinjara News | Thursday, February 12, 2009
Dhaka: The Students and Youth Congress of Burma, a leading Burmese student group in exile, appealed to Indian Prime Minister H.E. Shri Manmohan Singh to release 34 Arakanese and KAren freedom fighters who have been detained in India since 1998. more +

Demonstration in favour of detained Burmese in India
Narinjara News | Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The pro-democracy Indian civil society groups and the exile Burmese in India have come together to raise voice for the detained 34 Burmese freedom fighters in Kolkata for their immediate release from the Presidency Jail more +

Operation Leech trials, 19 April, 2007 Update
Frontier India | Friday, April 20, 2007
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is prosecuting 34 ethnic Burmese rebels currently lodged in Presidency jail in Kolkata, on April 19, 2007, produced before the court seven sealed boxes more +

Burmese rebels accuse India of betrayal
The Guardian | Monday, October 08, 2007
Thirty-four men who are being tried in secret by India, accused of being arms smugglers, are Burmese anti-junta rebels who were once backed by the Indian army, say human rights activists who are demanding their freedom. more +

Court drama snarls Myanmar-India romance
www.atimes.com | Wednesday, August 15, 2007
On nearly all counts, India-Myanmar bilateral relations are on the upswing, with fast-growing military, trade and investment links. more +

Ministry of Defence Press Release - 28th November, 2002
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 quantity of ammunitions were recovered. more +

Theres another twist in this Leech tale
www.dnaindia.com | Monday, January 05, 2009
The twists and turns of the past decade linked to Operation Leech are as mysterious as the military operation on the Andaman islands in February 1998, when six Burmese rebels were shot dead and 73 captured for allegedly occupying an Indian island for gun-running activities. more +

Operation Leech- What really happened
www.rediff.com | Tuesday, July 14, 1998
The army is trying to scuttle a CBI investigation into Operation Leech in the Andamans. What are they trying to hide? more +

Operation Leech-Defence embarrassed
INFA | Friday, August 31, 2007
The trial of the infamous 1998 'Operation Leech' in the Kolkata court is turning out to be a public relations disaster for New Delhi vis-à-vis its ties with Yangon. That too at a crucial time when several big business deals with Myanmar's military junta hang in the balance. more +

Vasantha murder- IB officer acquitted
Indian Express | Friday, December 19, 2008
The Port Blair District and Sessions Court on Thursday acquitted K C Sureshkumar, former assistant director with the Intelligence Bureau in Andaman and Nicobar, in the murder of advocate T Vasantha. more +

BLOOD AND SAND
Soumen Datta, Anish Gupta and Sourabh Sen | Sunday, May 31, 1998
It was Quiet. It was precise. It was brutal. It was hell in the archipelago that will go down as the most more +

Appeal Letter of Dr. Shwe Lu maung to Honourable Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh of India
Shahnawaz Khan, Ph.D. | Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Some members of the Arakan Army (AA), which is the military wing of the National United Party of Arakan (NUPA), have been detained by the Indian authorities at Port Blair, Adamans Islands, since 1998. more +

An Appeal from Andamans and Nicobers Island
Prisoners from Andamans | Friday, February 10, 2006
Saw Tun first approached to the Assistant High Commission of India in Chittagong and meet with the First Secretary who advised him to contact RAW in New Delhi more +

Czech Republic, East Timor offer asylum to Burmese rebels
Mungpi | Monday, April 14, 2008
East Timor and the Czech Republic have 'in principle' agreed to offer asylum to 34 Burmese ethnic rebels, who are currently lodged in Kolkata's presidency jail in India and facing trial for alleged gun-running. more +

Release Burmese rebels from Indian jail- Solidarity Committee
Solomon | Monday, April 14, 2008
Indian political parties including the Communist Party of India and the All India Forward Bloc today called on India to release the 34 Burmese rebels, who are now languishing in Kolkata's Presidency jail. more +


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