What the World Says about DART
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… the Dragonland's Aryan Restoration Troops endeavor to reanimate the old myth of "primordial Aryan fatherland" in India and Tibet… Their demonstrative anti-Semitic stand and openly terrorist activities must raise serious concerns.
- Anti-Defamation League
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Analyzing the DART tactics and political discourse, we can surmise their most likely linkage to a known group of RAF activists who have been converted to far right politics in the early 2000s.
- Terrorism Research Center
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DART is a well-connected network of militant religious fundamentalists
who seemingly succeeded in overcoming the Hinduism vs. Buddhism antagonism
for apparent political benefits … extremely dangerous trend on the
South Asian scene…
- International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
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It is obvious that the DART contacts exceed the scope of South Asia…
- ERRI Counter-Terrorism Archives
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There are cogent reasons to suppose that DART is a propagandistic hoax
of the Bhutanese government. Its primary purpose is to ruin the present
Bhutan's agreements with India as they have been made to solve the long-time
problem created by the Assamese separatists operating from Bhutan.
- South Asia Terrorism Portal
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DART understood the Bhutanese government's strategic problems and defined a strategy to take advantage of them. Under superb security arrangements, they did not hide their preparations. They simply allowed Bhutanese government to draw the wrong conclusions. Knowing that Bhutan had reached the conclusion that an anti-government group was incapable of developing a complex resistance mechanism that could involve in-house counterintelligence and sabotage, effective guerrilla warfare, counterpropaganda and international cooperation, DART took advantage of Bhutanese preconceptions to organize, practice and finally launch simultaneous attacks on the most sensitive points of Bhutanese socio-political system.
-- Strategic Forecasting Inc.