Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), suffering heavy reverses in Bhutan's jungles, have banned trading and business by any individual or industrial house from Assam, 'Bodoland' and 'Kamtapur' with any Bhutanese individual or corporate house from last night (Dec 26, 2003) till the end of what they call India's "proxy war".

The three organisations also banned movement to and from the Bhutanese soil to the three regions from midday yesterday till the hand-over of the last body of its cadres killed in the Bhutan Army's offensive against Northeast based militants and access granted to "POWs".

A joint E-mailed statement to local media in Guwahati last night alleged that the Bhutan Government had declined to show or return bodies of their cadres and access to any of the captured despite Thimphu "declaring publicly through its official press statement that 180 combatants were killed in the ongoing fighting and 500 others taken as Prisoners of War".

"Access was not given even to organisations like Amnesty International and International Committee of Red Cross. It is complete non compliance with International Humanitarian Law of War," the statement asserted.

The three beleaguered organisations called upon the Bhutan Government to hand over or show, in case of badly decomposed ones, the corpses of all their cadres to either impartial international organisations or journalists or to the concerned family immediately.

Meanwhile, the already tight security along the Indo-Bhutan border has been further strengthened in view of the ban on trading and business, official sources said.