1. Although the government of India has been urging the Royal Bhutan Government to clamp down on the militant camps located in Southern Bhutan, the Himalayan Kingdom has not done anything in this regard - sans the lip service.
A. Till date, however the camps run by the ULFA and NDFB continue to exist in Southern Bhutan, which share a common border with Assam.
b. In fact, the NDFB has been involved in the killing of a number of Bhutanese nationals inside Assam three to four years ago when authorities in Thimphu tried to clamp down on the Bodo outfit activities inside Bhutan.
C. The issue was taken up again by India with the Bhutanese authorities during the separate visits of Prime Minister's security adviser Brajesh Mishra and chief of Army Staff Gen. N. C. Vij to Thimphu recently.
D. The main reason for the Royal Bhutan Governments failure to dismantle the militant camps stems from the fear that the militants will retaliate by targeting the Bhutanese nationals who mostly rely on the highways in Assam.
6. The other main concern of the Bhutanese authorities is that, apart from targeting the Bhutanese, nationals the militants will cut off the main supply routes leading to the Himalayan Kingdom from Assam which are used extensively by nationals of the neighbouring land locked countries everyday.
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