Don't use our leader as bargaining tool

"It's of utmost importance for policy and decision making that swidden areas are charted so that REDD+ mechanisms can also apply to these forgotten landscape that are home to poor rural populations."This research was carried out as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, the Comprehensive Analysis of the Trajectories of Changes Program supported by CIFOR and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. and the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North-South. It has benefited from collaborations within the I-REDD+ project of the European Commission Framework Project and received financial supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and participating institutions.

The anti-dialogue faction of ULFA has appealed to Bangladesh not to use its jailed leader Anup Chetia's extradition to India as a bargaining tool to secure custody of some Bangladeshi criminals.Chairman of ULFA Independent Abhizeet Asom, in a letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said Chetia was "not a criminal but a leader of the freedom-loving people of Assam".ULFA's appeal to Hasina came in the wake of reports that the Bangladesh government had sought the extradition of two criminals, Subrata Bain and Sajjad Hossain, in exchange for Chetia.While Bain was arrested in Kolkata in 2012 on charges of carrying fake currency, illegal arms and for illegal immigration, Hossain - who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail - is wanted in several cases of murder in Bangladesh.

"I believe Chetia has approached your government volunteering to be repatriated rather than being held in protective custody anymore. However, upon being made aware that you are seeking a few citizens of your country who are indicted as criminals and currently held by India, like Subrata Bain in exchange of Chetia's repatriation, I am deeply dismayed that Chetia's requests has been used as bargaining tool for getting hands on Bangladeshi criminals currently in India," said the letter.