Insurgency / Manipur

IMPHAL, June 27?The bullet riddled body of kidnapped police officer Chanam Arunkumar Singh, has been found at Selmat village area in Manipur?s Churanchandpur district, official sources said today, reports PTI. Singh (36), a sub-Inspector of Churachandpur police station had been kidnapped by suspected militants of Kuki National Front (KNF) from Tuibon area near his office on July 21. His body which bore multiple bullet wounds was found half buried at Selmat village, about 50 km from here, yesterday, the sources said. The body has been sent for post-mortem. The motive behind the kidnapping and...

IMPHAL, June 20 ? The two-member Democratic People?s Party (DPP), a constituent of the ruling six-party Secular Progressive Front (SPP) in the 60-member Manipur Assembly, has said it would demand pre-merger status of Manipur if the State?s territories were ?divided to appease? the NSCN (I-M), and also demanded arrest of NSCN (I-M) general secretary Th Muivah, reports PTI. The DPP welcomes the peace talks between the Centre and the NSCN (I-M), but would oppose, at all costs, the attempts to ?divide? Manipur, party spokesman RK Anand told newsmen. Manipur Government, he said, should arrest NSCN...

GUWAHATI, June 18 ? United National Liberation Front (UNLF), a militant group, operating from Myanmar has been providing arms and ammunition to several underground organisations of the North-east India, highly placed official sources disclosed today. The sources said that the security forces deployed along the Indo-Myanmar border for counter insurgency operations, confirmed that the militant outfit of late has provided a huge cache of arms and ammunition to the ULFA and the NDFB.

The UNLF, one of the oldest militant outfits of Manipur, has been operating from different hideouts of Myanmar...

IMPHAL, June 18 ? About five lakh people today turned out here to remember the 18 killed during the agitation in Manipur after the extension of the ceasefire agreement between the Centre and the NSCN(IM) to the State on this day last year, reports PTI. Organised by the apex United Committee Manipur (UCM), rallyists from four corners of the State converged at Mapal Kangjeibung, the polo ground, before marching in a procession to Kekrupat on the banks of Imphal river, where the victims of the agitation were cremated. The Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh led the rallyists at Kekrupat. The...

DIMAPUR, June 18 ? At least 6,770 militants belonging to various militant outfits operate in the north-eastern State of Manipur alone including the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) which is presently engaged in talks to bring a permanent solution to the vexed Naga political problem.

Sources also revealed that some of these outfits are in the possession of state-of-the-art communication systems and are equipped with sophisticated automatic weapons. According to an estimated figure, these militants covering the length and breadth of Manipur including both the hills and valley...

Imphal, June 13: Security personnel, believed to be Assam Rifles troops, seriously beat up several civilians, including a woman, during search operations in the early hours today at Thangmeiband Khoyathong Thingen Maru. According to local sources, several security personnel in combat fatigues forced their way into the house of one Naorem Andrin, 30, at Thangmeiband Polem Liekai and made a thorough search of the house. They also thrashed Andrin, and demanded that he produce the hidden UGs. The same security personnel later entered the house of one Sagolshem Inaocha Singh of the same locality...

Imphal, June 11: Vungkhulal Chongloi, 46, the Congress candidate from Kangpokpi constituency in the last Assembly elections, along with four others was picked up by unidentified persons, believed to be security personnel, from two different places in the Imphal area in the wee hours today. Chongloi and three of the other four, who are described as relatives of the victims of security excesses that occurred in the aftermath of the May 27 Leplen village ambush, had yesterday filed a case with the Manipur Human Rights Commission in connection with the disappearance of a youth recently arrested by...

Imphal, June 10: The Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) has strongly refuted the charges hurled by Kuki National Army (KNA) which was published in leading local dailies recently. A statement signed by information and publicity secretary Rocky Kuki pointed out that the Leplen ambush on AR personnel on April 27 "was in retaliation to the inhuman killings of its cadres by AR." It also accused one David Singson, "an informer of the AR" for the killings and maiming of its cadres. Commenting on the issue of KRA wresting Zaienphai village chiefship, it clarified that David Singson was never the chief of...

Imphal, June 10: The underground People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, PREPAK has rejected the claim by the Zomi Revolutionary Army, ZRA, that the six PREPAK members slain in the June 1 encounter had opened fire first on the cadres of the ZRA and that they had been killed without any knowledge of their identities. The PREPAK, in a statement issued here, reiterated that the six slain cadres had been shot at close range, and their bodies bore evidence that they had been beaten up before being shot. It said the PREPAK’s version of events had been verified from a spot enquiry and from the...

Imphal, June 10: The 2nd death anniversary of renowned personality Arambam Samarendra was held all over the State today. Founder general secretary and chairman of the UNLF, Samarendra was shot .dead on this day two years back long after he came overground and was leading a retired life. Various organizations came together and organized functions at different places to remember the man who was assassinated two years back. A symposium on the life and works of Samarendra was held at MU Centenary Hall jointly organized by Uniline and Research Club, Manipur University. MU VC Professor Hijam Tombi...