On top of revelations that the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) bought arms from the Tamil Tigers, a former Ulfa leader says the Assamese separatist group also received military training from the Sri Lankan rebels.
Former Ulfa spokesman Sunil Nath said that a small Ulfa team from the northeast Indian border state went to Jaffna in Sri Lanka in the early 1990s when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled the northern peninsula.
"We got in touch with the LTTE through a Tamil Nadu politician," Sunil Nath told IANS in a telephone interview from Assam. "He [the politician] in turn contacted the LTTE."
According to Nath two separatist guerrillas were picked to spend some time training with the LTTE. They returned to India within a week. According to another former Ulfa militant, they came back ahead of time "because the LTTE training was too tough for us".
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