Insurgency / Manipur

Imphal, Dec. 31: A secessionist outfit of Manipur today welcomed the ambitious 1,360-km-long trilateral highway project connecting the country with Myanmar and Thailand. The banned Revolutionary People?s Front (RPF) in a statement said the proposed project would benefit Manipur.

Foreign ministers of the three countries, in a meeting in New Delhi on December 23, agreed to take up the $700 million project linking Moreh of Manipur and Maesot of Thailand through Bagan of Myanmar. The foreign ministers decided to launch the first phase of the project, which would cost $252 million, from early next...

IMPHAL, Dec 23: Normal life was affected in Manipur today due to 12-hour general strike called by the separatist Manipur People?s Liberation Front in solidarity with the ULFA, NDFB and KLO whose camps in Bhutan were busted. Markets, shops and business establishments were closed and people preferred to remain indoors. Attendance in both Central and State government offices was almost nil, official reports said, adding that transporters also cancelled long-distance services. Police and para-military forces had been deployed in all sensitive points and patrolling intensified in various places...

Imphal, December 21: The Peoples Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak today said the sovereign Bhutan rather than supporting the movement to restore the lost sovereignty of the region is standing against the people of the north east people whose rights had been taken away. It is a game for the government of India but it will read to conflicts amongst kinsmen it further said. Prepak wants to have good relations with Bhutanese but it condemned the puppet Jigme Wangchuk government. It condemned in the highest terms the killing of those who are in their custody. It clarified that the offer to go back...

Dimapur, Dec. 19: The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) has denied the Kuki Inpi?s allegation that the former was providing logistic support to the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) rebels. The apex body of the Kuki tribe in Manipur had recently urged the NSCN (I-M) to restrain the KRA cadre who are engaged in a series of bloody clashes with Karbi outfit United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) in Karbi Anglong district in Assam. The Kuki Inpi had accused the NSCN (I-M) of helping the KRA cadre.

In a release today, the NSCN (I-M) said the Kuki Inpi had ?cooked up a wild...

Imphal, December 13: Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has categorically asked the NSCN (IM) to rein in KRA cadres who are in its camp and stop further occurrence of clash between KRA and UPDS militants in Karbi Anglong district of Assam. In an open letter to NSCN (I-M) chairman Isaac Swu, information and publicity secretary of KIM Ng Haokip Lhangsam said 'the cadres of KRA are our children but we have no control over them since they are at NSCN (IM) camp'. NSCN (IM) should stop the KRA cadres before it is too late. Otherwise, it should bear the responsibly for occurrence of further clash between the...

Imphal, December 09: Stating it will no longer engage in a verbal duel with the KYKL, the UNLF today said that it will leave the matter to the people to judge. In a statement issued to the press today, UNLF said that it would be tough to make the KYKL realize the stand of the UNLF. Tearing into the statement of KYKL released and published in the State dailies earlier, the UNLF said that it (KYKL) still refuses to see the difference between the NSCN (IM) and the Naga people and added that the KYKL still does not know that UNLF's aspiration is for all the people of the region to live together as...

Imphal, December 09: The Kuki Revolutionary Army today threatened to continue with its armed struggle until the killing of Kuki people by UPDS militants in Assam?s Karbi Anglong district stops. KRA ?divisional commandant? of Nagaland, Karbi Anglong and NC Hills, Thangkeng Sanghshing told reporters, whom they took to their camp, today that "if the killing of our Kuki people continued, we will not sit idle but retaliate. We are ready to fight". Sanghshing alleged that there was a conspiracy to drive out the Kukis from Karbi Anglong as they did not have any political leader or representative in...

IMPHAL, Dec 9 ? Expressing concern over the large influx of Hindi speaking people to the State following the whiplash against them in neighbouring Assam and quit notices served by NNC in Nagaland, the proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) has drawn the attention of the people to the danger and urged all to stop further influx and take up appropriate steps to deport those who recently came to Manipur.

The outfit in a statement issued here stated that ever since Biharis started attacking train passengers from the North-east region in Bihar,, the Biharis have been asked to vacate Assam. Over...

Imphal, December 08: Expressing serious concern over the large influx of Hindi-speaking to the State following the whiplash against them in neighboring Assam and quit notices served by the NNC in Nagaland, the proscribed KYKL has today drawn the attention of the people to the danger posed by the large influx of people from the Hindi heartland and urged all to stop further influx and take up appropriate steps to deport those who recently came to the State. In a statement issued to the press today, the outfit said that ever since Biharis started attacking train passengers from the North East...

IMPHAL, Dec 6 ? Manipur government will soon launch a massive combing operation to flush out insurgents in view of the intensified militant activities of the ultras in the state, official sources said on Saturday, reports PTI. The decision to push out the militants was taken during a meeting of the state level apex security coordination committee presided over by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh here Friday evening, they said.

Reviewing the deteriorating law-and-order situation, the meeting decided to deploy security forces at strategic locations apart from sharing intelligence among...