Insurgency / Manipur

IMPHAL, Dec 1: Security and police forces would be deployed at all vulnerable areas both in towns and rural areas of Manipur following stepped-up activities by unlawful organisations, official sources said on Sunday, reports PTI. The decision was taken at a high-level security meeting, presided over by Chief MInister Okram Ibobi Singh, which reviewed the law-and-order situation in the state, the sources said. The meeting, held on Saturday, and attended by high civil and security officials, also discussed the random checking of passers-by at many suspected places both in the hills and...

Imphal, Nov. 30: The BSF, which has been in the forefront of counter-insurgency operations in Manipur, today said it had ?re-established? civil administration in Churachandpur and Bishenpur districts, where its troops are currently deployed.

The BSF was deployed in the state in 2000 primarily to counter insurgency in two districts following the withdrawal of army troops due to the Kargil conflict.

Initially, there were only six battalions, but two additional battalions were later deployed.

BSF deputy inspector-general for Manipur and Nagaland P.K. Misra, in a statement on the eve of the force...

Imphal, July 15: Chief Minister O Ibobi who also holds the Home portfolio today informed the Assembly that the Government is working overtime to chart out a rehabilitation scheme for surrendered militants. Replying to a call attention motion moved by Opposition MLA O Joy today, the Chief Minister said that as per the rehabilitation package announced by the Centre in 1999, with retrospective effect from April 1, 1998, a total of 27 of the 146 surrendered militants have been inducted into the State police force and the Manipur Rifles. The Chief Minister further said that under the rehabilitation...

Imphal, July 14: An NSCN (K) impostor who served a demand notice on a brick kiln at Maklang was held by RPF cadres and produced before newsmen, somewhere Imphal West today. Addressing newsmen the Information and Publicity chief-in-charge of the outfit said that the impostor had served a demand notice of Rs 20,000 on a brick kiln located at Maklang in the name of the NSCN (K). The impostor who was produced before reporters is identified as Keisam Inaobi alias Itobi alias Khomdon alias Prem of Chanam Sandrok Makha. The RPF leader further said that his outfit swung into action on receiving...

IMPHAL, July 12?The State police chief A A Siddiqui has categorically stated that there is no report of ISI activities in this border state of Manipur so far. Highlighting the achievement of the Manipur police in fighting insurgent outfits operating in the state, Director General of Police AA Siddiqui said that since January till June 30 last the State police managed to annihilate 27 underground cadres belonging to five outfits, arrest 280 militants including 15 sympathisers and recovered 43 arms from them. Interacting with mediapersons, DGP Siddiqui asserted that the achievement of the state...

Imphal, July 11: The state security forces killed 27 UG activists, and arrested 280, out of which 49 of them were booked under NSA during the first half of the year. This was revealed by the police brass at an interaction with the press at the 1st MR Banquet Hall this evening. The police also seized seven AK 47/56 rifles, three SLRs, five 303 rifles, four carbines, 13 pistols, two.38 revolvers, five grenades, 10 walkie talkie sets and 120 rounds of ammunition from the UG. The official also stated that six police personnel were killed by the UGs and another six injured. Altogether nine weapons...

Imphal, July 09: The chief minister, O Ibobi Singh, has clarified that the IRB personnel involved in the killing of some NSCN (IM) cadres in an encounter at Pallel earlier this year have not been suspended from service, as alleged by Federal Party of Manipur MLA M Nilachandra Singh in the Assembly yesterday. Replying to the general discussion in the state budget for 2002-2003 this evening, the chief minister said the IRB personnel have neither been suspended nor rewarded. He expressed regret that the House has been misled by some Opposition members, and urged that matters which have not been...

Imphal, July 03: The home secretary of the underground People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, PREPAK, Tourangbam Brojeshwor alias Nanao, 38, of Uripok Tourangbam Leikai, was nabbed by the Imphal west district police today. A police statement said the PREPAK leader was caught while coming out from the League of the Fourth World People Kangleipak Computer Centre at Keisamthong after preparing several demand letters addressed to various officials of the state government on the letterhead of the PREPAK's finance department. According to the statement, there were altogether ten demand letters...

IMPHAL, July 3 ? Demanding framing of a comprehensive rehabilitation package for the surrendered insurgents and discussing the matter during the month-long monsoon session of the State assembly which is beginning from tomorrow, a group of former insurgents threatened to commit suicide if the government fails this time. The former insurgents numbering around 85 presently taking shelter at the police commando barracks in Imphal also decided to do something in order to achieve their demand. The former insurgents who are currently taking shelter at the police commando barracks include 10 PLA...

Imphal, July 02: Peeved at the Government’s failure to frame a rehabilitation package for surrendered militants, a section of the former militants have today threatened to commit a serial suicide if the Government fails to announce a proper rehabilitation package during the Monsoon session of the State Assembly. Speaking to reporters at the Commando Barrack near Minuthong today, representatives of the ex-UGs questioned why the Government was not providing proper rehabilitation to the former militants who have surrendered to the call of both the State and the Central Government to return to the...