Insurgency / Manipur

IMPHAL, May 30 ? Manipur Government has decided to extend the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 for another year from June 1 in view of the deteriorating law-and-order situation, official sources said today, reports PTI. The State Cabinet which met yesterday decided to continue with the ?disturbed area? status of the State by extending the Act which had been first imposed in the State on September 8, 1980, the sources said. Since then, the Act had been extended from time to time to deal with armed insurgents operating in the State and the last two-year extension, made during the rule of...

IMPHAL, May 31? The Kuki Inpi, Manipur, an apex body of the Kuki community in the State urged the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram to enlighten the Central Government not to disturb the territorial boundary of Manipur in the wake of NSCN (I-M) peace talks. A memorandum has been submitted in this regard to the minister when he was here for a three-day State visit to look into the tribal development programme in Manipur. The memorandum said that Kukis, Nagas and Meiteis have been living together since eons. ?To parcel out areas for a single community is impossible because the three...

Imphal, May 29: Bellying all expectations, the State Cabinet today extended the enforcement of the controversial Disturbed Area status under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 in Manipur by one more year. The Cabinet move was termed as "very unfortunate" by the DPP which had made revoking the status it's plank for joining the ruling SPF. The decision for extending the tenure of the Act for one more year was taken today during the extended session of the State Cabinet which failed to reach a consensus on the issue yesterday. The meeting held at the conference hall of the Chief Minister...

IMPHAL, May 29 ? Underground Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), which has ?close links? with NSCN (I-M), Wednesday claimed responsibility for the Monday last ambush in which 11 Assam Rifles personnel had been killed at Leplan area in Manipur?s Ukhrul district, reports PTI. A caller identified as one Rocky Kuki, information secretary of KRA, said its cadres had attacked and killed the Assam Rifles personnel. An Assam Rifles statement had earlier said they had suspected KRA and NSCN (I-M) to be behind the attack on the security forces. Meanwhile, three local organisations today strongly condemned...

Imphal, May 28: Even as massive search operations are being conducted in Leplian Kuki village area following yesterday's militant attack in which 11 AR jawans were killed, the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) has claimed the responsibility of the attack and denied NSCN (IM)'s involvement in it. 10 Sector Commander Brig Suresh Nayar inspected the site of the attack this morning. The army officer came by helicopter from Somsai. One Maj Gen of the AR also came by copter from Jakhama to oversee the search operations. They departed after they were briefed by high ranking army officers overseeing the...

IMPHAL, May 28 ? United Committee Manipur (UCM), an apex body of different organisations, has convened an all-party meeting tomorrow to discuss the issues arising out of the Centre-NSCN (I-M) peace talks, an UCM statement said today. The statement said the meeting would discuss how to protect the territorial integrity of the State following the NSCN (I-M)?s demand for merger of some hill portion of Manipur with Nagaland. The UCM which had earlier warned INSCN (I-M) not to incite communal disharmony by demanding division of Manipur would also urge the political parties to adopt a long-term...

Imphal, May 27: Militants struck in a big way killing at least 11 Assam Rifles personnel and decamping with a large number of arms and ammunition including 4 AK rifles and one 2 inch mortar at Leplian Kuki village around 19 kms north-east of Saikul police station at around 10 this morning. In a statement the Press Spokesman of Assam Rifles confirmed the death of 11 soldiers including one Havildar identified as Shakti Singh Rana in the ambush but added that number of militants were also killed and wounded in the shoot out. The statement said that the incident occurred while Assam Rifles troops...

IMPHAL, May 27 ? At least 10 Assam Rifles jawans were killed and five others seriously injured in an ambush by suspected Manipur insurgents at Gangsad area, about 40 km north-east of here today, official sources said, reports PTI. The armed insurgents attacked the Assam Rifles convoy belonging to 25th battalion while the security personnel were returning to Imphal, the sources said. Reinforcements were rushed to the spot and a combing operation launched. The insurgents, however, escaped through the jungles and hills, the sources said.

Imphal, May 26: IRB personnel fired in the air to quell a mob that had built up at Lilong Sambrukhong following alleged reports that police were going to deposit the dead body of Md Alauddin at his Lilong Chandrakhong residence at around 4.30 this evening. Alauddin's body has been lying at the RIMS morgue as his family declined to collect it till today. The body was recovered from Oinam Barrage yesterday morning. Lilong residents put up road blockades at Chandrakhong Makok, Mamei, Mayai Leikai Laishrangkhong and Sambrukhong following rumors that police are going to deposit the body at his...

Imphal, May 24: The secretary of the Council for Higher Secondary Education, Dr Kh Joychandra Singh, was shot and wounded by activists of the underground Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, KYKL, this afternoon as a punishment for allegedly bribing his way into his post. Dr Joychandra, who was appointed secretary of the council at the end of April was abandoned by the KYKL activists with bullet wounds in both legs at the Loijeng Chingkhong area under Lamlai police station. He has since been admitted to JN hospital. Joychandra had been kidnapped by activists of the underground group on May 16 last...