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The Telegraph,
quoting the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director-General
J.K. Sinha, has reported that the CRPF would replace the army
in counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast by September
2005. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on March 2, Sinha
said 22 CRPF battalions are undergoing special training for counter-insurgency
operations and would be deployed in the region by August.
Earlier in the day,
352 former militants of the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT)
were inducted into the CRPF.
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