Insurgency / Manipur

IMPHAL, July 23: Many women's voluntary organisations operating in this trouble-torn state have strongly condemned the "barbaric acts" committed by the personnel of the 112 Bn CRPF at Lamdan village in Bishnupur district on Wednesday evening. Poirei Leimarol Meira Paibi Apunba Manipur has expressed serious concern over the rape and molestation of a Lamdan housewife in front of their family members and urged the concerned authority to take up stringent action against the involved personnel without delay in the interest of the women community in the state. Condemning the act, the president of...

IMPHAL, July 20: The central committee of the banned United National Liberation Front (UNLF) has clarified that the unfortunate incident on June 25 at Leingangpokpi near Jiribam divisional headquarters occurred while its armies were lying in wait to ambush a team of Indian armed force. The banned UNLF has issued a press clarification in this regard. In the statement, the central committee said the UNLF received information that a group of Indian Armymen in civil dress was coming towards Jiribam in a Tata Sumo on that day. Following the information, a group of its armed cadres were waiting at...

IMPHAL, July 20: In the aftermath of Tuesday morning's ambush on a CRPF patrol party near Lamdan village under Loktak police station, in which four jawans were killed, several residents of Lamdan were tortured and a housewife was raped by CRPF personnel intent on revenge yesterday, the village authorities have allleged. Apart from the rape, two women of the village, a mother and a daughter, were also badly molested, they charged. According to a press statement issued by the chairman of the Lamdan village authority, yesterday evening at around 5:30 pm a group of CRPF personnel, led by assistant...

IMPHAL, July 20: In the second of a series of reviews of the state situation by high-powered teams from the Centre, another 7-member task force on boundary management landed in a special BSF aircraft and held meetings with state authorities today. The team is led by the former Union home minister, Madhav Godbole as chairman. The other members of the team are: ML Mehta, T Ananthachari, Vice Admiral (retd.) AR Tandon, DVLN Ramakrishna Rao, Chinmoy Chakravorty and Lt. Gen (retd. VK Sood). They were accompanied by a number of officials, including IG(R) BSF, VN Rai; coordinator NSCS, Cabinet...

IMPHAL, July 19: The United National Liberation Front, UNLF, has once again sought the forgiveness of the families of the victims of its mistaken ambush on a Tata Sumo passengers on June 25 in which ten people were killed. In a press released by the central Committee of the organisation, the UNLF said as much as it is an incident which the bereaved families will find difficult to forget, it will also leave a scar that will not easily heal on the UNLF. Explaining the circumstances that led to the unfortunate attack, the UNLF said it had laid an ambush on the vehicle mistakenly identifying it as...

IMPHAL, July 19: A high powered central team led by former Union Home Secretary NN Vohra today reviewed the situation in Manipur with high ranking state officials in the context of escalation in insurgent activities. The nine-member Central 'task force on internal security' discussed the situation in the state with Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh soon after arriving in Imphal this morning by a special plane. The discussion covered issues related to law and order, the threat posed by the activities of the underground groups to India's internal security and help extended to the UGs by foreign...

IMPHAL, July 18: Four personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and a jawan was injured in a well planned ambush laid by suspected Peoples' Liberation army activists at Lamtan under Loktak police station this morning at around 8.30 am. The underground activists took away a loaded self-loaded rifle and an indigenously developed INSAS rifle. A column of the 112 Bn CRPF consisting of 32 personnel on a road opening patrol duty along the Charoi Khullen road was fired upon by the suspected underground activists who waylaid the approaching column at Lamtanjar village. The...

NEW DELHI, August 20, 1999: The allies of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) have condemned outright the killing of its general secretary Dali Mungro. The Tripura People's Democratic Front (TPDF) president, Ranjit Debbarma, offered its "deep sympathies" to the NSCN(K), the Naga people and the bereaved family of the leader. Debbarma, in a statement made available to this e-zine, said his organisation would remember the efforts of Mungro towards unity of all revolutionary organisations of the region. The "cowardly" assassination of Mungro is sure to lead the process into rough...

GUWAHATI, August 20: Even as security forces are striving to contain militancy in Assam as well as in the other Northeast states, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) have consolidated their bases in Myanmar. According to a confessional statement made by a senior ULFA member of the Morigaon district, over 100 ULFA members are undergoing training in different NSCN(K) camps in Myanmar. The Kachin-trained member who was arrested by the Morigaon police recently, said that these camps are located in dense forests in Myanmar. It takes...

NEW DELHI, August 5: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Tripura People's Democratic Front (TPDF) have said there will be no change in their previous collective decisions together with the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), People's Revolutionary Party og Kangleipak (PREPAK) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) over the boycott of India's Independence Day celebrations "in our entire region". A statement issued by ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and TPDF president Ranjit Deb Barma appealed to the people of the Northeast to...