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China as the Backup of NE Insurgents
Times of Assam | Col (Retd) Anil Bhat | Nov 23, 2011
The latest development of China uniting Meitei groups with Baruah’s faction should not at all come as a surprise. Whether Chinese intelligence has taken over what ISI was doing actively from Bangladesh for almost two decades during Khalida Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s tenure, or assisting its latent elements still operating there, Indian security forces need to be all the more guarded.
Many inputs about the Chinese connection came from Anthony Shimray of NSCN-IM and Raj Kumar Meghen of the UNLF arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA), both of who had participated in meetings with Chinese intelligence agencies operatives following requests from both these groups for support including sophisticated weapons.
According to former GOC, 3 Corps, Lt. Gen. N.K.Singh, there are about 40 militant camps belonging to various North Eastern insurgent groups in Myanmar, which has 1,643 kms of unfenced border with Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram. Paresh Baruah’s ULFA group in Myanmar is according to some reports as much as 800 cadres armed with a sizeable arsenal of arms and explosives. He had organized a blast outside the Congress headquarters in Guwahati in the run-up to the Assembly election earlier this year.
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