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M-16s are pretty common for NE terrorists. Some are original US made, some others are Chinese copy of M-16s. The old shipping route through Vietnam, Cambordia and Myanmar has been clamped down on but not completely shut down.
found some thing related to this.


Drawing from Yun Sun's take on China's Strategic Assessment of India , it would be prudent to delve intio aspects other than Doklam which impact Sino-Indian dynamics.

1. The resurgence of Indian covert capabilities have gradually deleveraged the Chinese MSS in the North East.
2. The MSS used a network of human assets , training camps and ports in Bangladesh , Myanmar and Thailand to facilitate insurgency in the North-East.This included sheltering key leaders like ULFA's Paresh Barua and NSCN-K's S.S.Khaplang inside Chinese Territory.
3. Gun running by the MSS involved Chinese commercial trawlers and Thai drug dealers.The trawlers would offload arms off the Bangladesh coast on speed boats and smaller fishing boats.These were then passed onto insurgents in the North-East through Cox Bazaar and Chittagong
4. A part of the consignment was sold-off to Maoists in India using an elaborate chain of student couriers based in Delhi and Bangalore.The Nepalese Maoist resurgence was fuelled by similar consignments passed on by militant organisations in the North-East.
5. India used a three pronged approach to combat this growing menace which commenced with RAW's Bangkok Station mounting intense surveillance of MSS's gun-running Ops in the Bay of Bengal and NE-Militant leaders which led to the Chittagong Arms Haul in 2004.
6. Covert Operatives sieved through Dhaka , Cox Bazar and Chittagong in search of MSS assets inside and outside the Khaleda Zia regime and some key assets were neutralised.During this period , Paresh Barua of the ULFA had a lucky escape managing to flee from a RAW Hit Squad.
7. This culimnated with the dethroning of Begum Khaleda Zia in 2006 as the prime minister of Bangladesh.The overt and covert actions which led to this landmark event set in motion the wheels of long term change
8. In the Mid-90s , India decided to recalibrate relations with Myanmar and followed it up by toning down support for the Arakan Army and Karen Rebels as a direct overture.India followed this up with tacit silence against the Military Junta's alleged atrocities at the UN
9. Responding to these measures Myanmar shared limited intelligence on the presence of militant camps on its territory but did not show any alacrity to tackle them as the Junta was busy fighting insurgencies in the North
10. With a friendly regime in Bangladesh , India managed to stem the flow of arms to the North-East effectively.This despite the ISI Station in Dhaka collaborating with the MSS to smuggle arms into Bangladesh via Pakistani Merchant Shipping and Air Cargo.
11. The ISI took over the mantle of gun-running and training with help from the Jamaat underground but this faltered as its assets were mysteriously neutralised and its reach within the government machinery waned after the BDR Mutiny of 2009.
12. The BDR Mutiny was the ISI's last hurrah before a long period of relative peace.But its ferocity contributed to the vengenace with which Sheikh Hasina went after Islamic Radicals.This gave India unlimited leverage inside Dhaka's Anti-Terror framework with fantastic results.
13. A series of economic measures were undertaken to connect India's North-East with Myanmar and Thailand to improve regional connectivity and trade.Military relations improved and the Border Roads Organisation undertook repair and maintenance of multiple roads within Myanmar.
14. This led to wider co-operation between both Militaries and India extended Lines of Credit to Myanmar for purchase of Defence Equipment. Exchange of personnel for training commenced and mutual trust improved rapidly.
15. India combined diplomatic and militray co-operation to make the Junta see reason and co-operate in destruction of insurgent camps inside Myanmar.This included tacit approval for cross-border Ops as the Myanmar Army did not want to lose personnel in the effort.
16. NSCN's repeated insistence on Greater Nagalim which included parts of Myanmar increased the Junta's wariness and there was wider acceptance within the Myanmar Army of the need to root out foreign insurgents on its soil.
17. The Surgical Strikes inside Myanmar in 2016 and co-ordinated cross-border combing ops knocked the wind out the NE Insurgency as they had no choice but to surrender.The Chinese in the interim were looking at status quo as they had an economic corridor at stake.
18. China was now worried about the safety of the China Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) and was wary of Indian covert capability inside Myanmar. In August 2019 , four major bridges along the route to the two most important trade hubs on the Myanmar-China border were blown up.
19. Co-ordinated attacks by an alliance of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA)—in Mandalay Region’s Pyin Oo Lwin and Shan State’s Naung Cho Township shook Beijing
19. The MSS was administered its own prescription and had no choice but the lie low. It had been gradually defanged and could exercise almost negligible control over the NE-Insurgents.A significant erosion of capability which would be very difficult to rebuild.
 

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A good tactics and method so far.

Since many years, I have been hearing from the erudite members of DFI various suggestions and measures towards the disposal of mortal remains of the dead terrorists. The suggestions have been ranging between burning the dead bodies to throwing them off.

There are clearly many angles to it.

First one is of being residents of J&K and being citizens of India who have legal rights even after being send to Jannat. Their next of Kin have rights to claim their bodies and perform their last rites as per their custom and religion. However that right can not and should not have been extended to unidentified and foreign terrorists. Local supports, OGW and some Masjids had been claiming those bodies and burying them ( obviously as a paid service - and who pays - all know that).

The second legal angle is to hand over the body to the local police and record the case as a legal requirement. The police then being locals do the tricks and hand over bodies to Jammaities to organise demonstrations.

The third angle is not only the legal aspect but humanitarian too. Indian Army and their soldiers have always been very humanitarian and it is necessary to keep that alive for inner peace and upholding cultural ethos of the soldiers. No officer can ever order his soldiers to be inhuman.

The fourth angle is religious - in that the Security Forces would not like to be projected as Anti Islamic.

Keeping that in mind, it is a correct policy that the bodies that are unidentified and unclaimed should either be given back to the Army for disposal or better the civil administration disposes those at undisclosed locations. After all what right does a foreign Jihadi terrorist have on ten feet of Indian land.

The most important aspect is that no local participation be allowed in the funerals and that needs to be restricted to say ten men, The law must be amended accordingly.
The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy reaffirms the inextricable links between human rights and security, and places respect for the rule of law and human rights at the core of national and international counter-terrorism efforts. Through this strategy, member States which includes India have committed to ensuring respect for human rights and the rule of law as the fundamental basis of the fight against terrorism.

This then is the core issue concerning local terrorists. Do we need to follow UNGCTS guidelines? But now we can take cover under the the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, which the govt has promulgated a few days ago which is a law meant for containment of epidemics by providing special powers that are required for the implementation of containment measures to control the spread of the disease by not allowing mass gatherings for funerals etc.

Bur what happens after, is the moot point!
 

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This was the third encounter in South Kashmir in last two days in which nine militants were killed. This one was by 19 RR, SOG and CRPF.

With these killings, the number of militants killed in April this year has reached 26. The overall count of the militants killed so far this year has risen to 58.


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This was the third encounter in South Kashmir in last two days in which nine militants were killed.

With these killings, the number of militants killed in April this year has reached 26. The overall count of the militants killed so far this year has risen to 58.


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looks like there is a turf war between old and new groups in the valley, probably using IA to take out the other group.

same thing happened in 2017 if I recall correctly.
 

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looks like there is a turf war between old and new groups in the valley, probably using IA to take out the other group.

same thing happened in 2017 if I recall correctly.
This happened earlier, and the army has taken advantage of this by divide and rule policy. Many had become informants to rat on the other groups. The birth of the Ikhwan in the Valley under Kuka Parray in the early 90s was part of this tactic by the army. By the middle of the 90s three terrorist groups fell out with Pak's ISI and joined the Ikhwan and were named Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen. However they were disbanded in 1994 due to public/political pressure.
 

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looks like there is a turf war between old and new groups in the valley, probably using IA to take out the other group.

same thing happened in 2017 if I recall correctly.
There is always Rivalry Among Terrorist Groups for Gaining new Recruits and getting resources like that from ISI. it exists in all Terrorist groups regardless of region. If there are two Terrorist groups with equal reputation and size in an region for example Afghan Taliban and ISIS in Afghanistan. They will be always be rivals and sometimes even enemies.
 
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