AR rebuts
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 04 2013: The propaganda spread by UNLF on April 4 stating that personnel of 44 Assam Rifles are responsible for shooting one innocent Mayanmarese citizen on the eve of April 2, belonging to Phayang village in Myanmar, is completely false and baseless, said a PRO IG AR (S) release.

Contending that there has been no such incident of capturing or shooting of Kuki villager or firing incident at the IB (international boundary), the PRO release asserted that it is a desperate attempt by the UNLF to tarnish the image of the security forces which have continuously foiled repeated attempts of UNLF cadres to infiltrate the porous Indo-Myanmar border and a frustrated attempt to hamper the increasing cooperation especially in the field of social-economic and people to people contact.

The UNLF cadres have earlier tried to palm off the blame of destroying the bridge of Tamu-Mintha road in Myanmar to the Indian security forces.

It has already been varified earlier that the security personal are not violating the IB between India and Myanmar and are employed for border guarding role only.This has been a recent emerging strategy by the UNLF to create problems in Myanmar, where they lack local support, in terms of killing innocent civilians and destroying government property and blaming the ill doing to the Indian security forces to create environment of distrust between the border village civilians, maintained the release.

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