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Kamtapuri rebels get help from Bhutan: Basu

West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu has said Kamtapuri activists were receiving arms training in Bhutan.

''They had taken arms training in Bhutan and some more are undergoing arms training there,'' Basu told the media.

Calling for resolving the Kamtapuri issue of north Bengal politically, he said, ''Mere police action will not solve the problem.''

The Kamtapuri Peoples Party and the Kamtapuri Liberation Organisation had launched a movement in some parts of north Bengal for a separate state.

Meanwhile, investigation had revealed that suspected Kamtapuri militants, who shot dead a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader at Kumargram yesterday, had used sophisticated rifles and fled to Bhutan.

District Magistrate Subrata Gupta said empty cartridges, found from the spot of the crime, were of sophisticated weapons of AK series and the suspected gunmen belonged to the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation.

Gupta said efforts were on to contact officials in the Royal Bhutan government to conduct a search operation for Kamtapuri activists there. He said after the crime, the assailants possibly fled to Bhutan following jungle routes of Kumargram.

UNI

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