NLFT sets up hospital in Chittagong

Author: Our Correspondent
Publication: www.tripurainfo.com
Date: September 7, 2003

Having established more than thrity five camps in chittagong hill-tracts and all subdivisions bordering Tripura and posh living spaces in Dhaka and Chittaong town , banned NLFT rebels have now set up a hospital in Khagaracherri town in the chittagong hill-tracts of Bangladesh for treatment of sick and injured members of the outfit. The hospital , set up in collaboration with rich muslim businessmen of the town, is located north of the Khagracherri army camp. While local patients coming for treatment in the hospital will be charged fees the NLFT activists will be treated free of cost by the doctors and nurses who have already been appointed on contract. The hospital is scheduled to be formally opened by the NLFT supremo Biswamohan Debbarma this month though no date has been fixed .

Official agencies keeping tab on militant movement and activities said that recently the NLFT (B) have shifted their headquarter from remote Sajek range to Nooncherri near Bagaicherri in Khagaracherri district of Chittagong hill-tracts. Apart from the remoteness , location of the headquarter in Sajek range had been putting the NLFT bosses in trouble to have ailing and injured rebel members treated . They had to be rushed to either Chittagong or Dhaka for treatment which entailed lot hassles and expenses . Sources said that most of the leading lights of NLFT have already settled down in business after purchasing properties including costly flats in Chittagong and Dhaka towns and expensive vehicles . Their children are studying in english medium schools in Bangladesh . Basing their information on confessions made by surrendered or nabbed NLFT rebels in Tripura sources said that over the past one year NLFT top brass have been hiring services of ´Kokborok´ (tribal language of Tripura) speaking tribals in Chittagong hill-tracts to get works done . More than thirty such youths have been working for NLFT including participation in guerrilla operations within Tripura. Sources said that Kujendra Tripura (38), a tribal resident of Dighinala area in Khagracherri district of the Chittagong hill-tracts , is the leader of the thirty indigenous tribal working for NLFT. His son is now studying in an english medium school in Shillong . During the past year Kujendra Tripura has also worked as a contract killer, liquidating a number of dissident NLFT activists at the behest of the outfit´s president Biswamohan Debbarma.
 

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