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Far from the madding crowds of the world and nestled in the lap of nature, the 
Seven Sisters of North Eastern India currently are under the sinister shadow of cross-border smuggling carried out by the Muslim smugglers of Bangladesh and mainly ethnic Chin people of Myanmar. These dangerous smugglers are getting emboldened day by day. They not only are carrying out smuggling operations most daringly in Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland but also killing local people and members of the Border Security Force and other paramilitary outfits guarding the long, porous borders that touch lawless Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Among these seven states, Meghalaya seems to be the worst victims of smuggling
and attacks on the civilians as well as paramilitary forces by the Bangladeshi smugglers. Several Rohingya Muslim refugees who have thronged in Bangladesh from Rakhine province of Myanmar also are actively carrying out smuggling by using Meghalaya as a conduit. The merciless murder of three innocent people of Meghalaya at Trangblang in the West Jaintia Hills district close to Bangladesh border shows the Bangladeshis who were smuggling cows now have grown extremely emboldened.
Those three persons including a village headman were returning to their village Amlanai on July 6, 2018 when the cow smugglers attacked and killed them. The smugglers left three others seriously injured. Last year on October 16th, an officer of the BSF, Deepak Mandal was attacked and killed by Bangladeshi smugglers in Tripura. The BSF has officially said around 150 jawans and officers of this paramilitary outfit suffer injury every year due to attacks by the smugglers from Bangladesh.
Recently, two Muslim smugglers from Moulavibazaar of Bangladesh attacked the police with sharp weapons in Karimganj in Assam. In this attack, few policemen were injured. This shows that the Bangladeshi smugglers are not even afraid to attack men in uniform in a foreign land.
The seizure of 10 kg gold in 23 gold bars on July 13, 2018 from Siliguri has alarmed the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). The gold bars were smuggled into Siliguri from Myanmar via Champhai in Mizoram. In June, 2018, 32 kg gold was seized near Siliguri. The gold was smuggled from China to Siliguri through the Nathu La Pass border. Mizoram’s Jokhawthar and Moreh in Manipur are major entry points of gold into India.
Amlan Home Chowdhury
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