GUWAHATI
The “indifference” of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) to sporadic gunfire and the presence of certain groups across the border in Bhutan may have emboldened extremist outfits of northeast India, a book by a former intelligence officer indicates.
Members of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the now-disbanded National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) and the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) had in the late 1990s begun setting up camps in Bhutan along the border with India.
