Narinjara News
Chittagong arms cache shipped from Hong Kong via
Singapore
According to a recent report of Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading
world magazine, an arms cache
seized last year in
shipped from
shipped on to
The JIR report said the shipment involved two key insurgent groups from
northeast
Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), the Isak Muivah Faction.
The
from
capital of Arakan
state, on
The police assumed that the arms and ammunitions were carried by two fishing
boats from the Akyab jetty to Bangladeshi water, where the arms were unloaded
to another two Bangladeshi fishing boats.
However, according to JIR sources, the original idea was to transport the arms
and ammunitions to
Kachin state. That idea was eventually shelved owing to security concerns over
moving such a large shipment across territory where local Kachins are seen as
pro-India.
It was discovered that the consignment originated from the
and at that point only involved new
Chinese weaponry. From
consignment was shipped to
added and the shipment was then
moved to the
report.
According to Bangladeshi press, the shipment included both Israeli and US
manufactured weapons but it remains unclear whether additional ammunitions
were also added to the shipment in
The shipment was then transported north through the
transferred in the
that then ferried the weapons to a
jetty of the
According to sources, the seizure of ammunitions by the Bangladeshi authority
are worth an estimated US $4.5 million to $7 million, and is known to have
included around 20,000 automatic and semi automatic rifles; among them 1290
type 56-1 and type 56-2 Kalashnikov assault rifles; 150 T-69 rocket propelled
grenade (RPG) launchers; quantities of 40mm RPG ammunitions, 25,00 hand
grenades and 1.8 million other small arms and ammunitions.
The weapons were seized in 9 truckloads, by Bangladeshi police, in a port of
(Note: some facts in this story were asserted from Weapons loaded at HK, a
longer report of the Daily star on 28 Feb.)
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