Indian forces stop attempts by Myanmarese along Manipur border

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Indian forces stop attempts by Myanmarese to raise fences along Manipur border

Manipur shares a 398 km border with Myanmar, most of which is porous.

india Updated: Jan 11, 2018 21:47 IST

Press Trust of India, Imphal

Two attempts by some villagers of Myanmar to erect fences along the Manipur border were thwarted by security forces, a top official said on Thursday.

Director general of Manipur Police L M Khaute said additional guards were deployed at the ‘no man’s land’ near the Moreh border post in Manipur after the incidents.

Khaute said the villagers first came a few days back and tried to erect fences but alert security personnel foiled their attempt.

“They came again this morning and we stopped them again. We have heightened the vigil and deployed additional forces. Assam Rifles personnel are also keeping strict vigil,” Khaute told PTI.

Sources said the matter came to light after locals living in the border town of Moreh noticed that some Myanmarese on the other side of the frontier were trying to raise bamboo fences on the ‘no man’s land’, located 100 metres south of Moreh police station.

The Myanmarese authorities were informed and they cooperated with the Indian security forces, the sources said.

Manipur shares a 398 km border with Myanmar, most of which is porous. The total length of the Indo-Mynamar border is 1,643 km.

 

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Bijay Sankar Bora
Tribune News Service
Guwahati, January 11

Mounted vigil against banned militant outfits operating in the Northeast ahead of the Republic Day paid rich dividend today as one of the most wanted leaders of the Garo rebel group, Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) from Meghalaya, was killed by the police.

The police informed that the self-styled deputy commander in chief of the GNLA which is suspected to have base in Bangladesh and be operating in close coordination with the banned ULFA (Independent), was gunned down by Meghalaya police commandos during an early morning encounter in forest area of East Garo Hills district of the hill state.

The slain militant leader was identified as Matchallang M Sangma alias Vietnam.

A team of police commandos from East Garo Hills swooped down on a GNLA camp near Baweduragre village at the break of dawn and engaged the rebels in heavy exchange of fire for quite some time before the rebels retreated deep inside the jungle.

A search of the site after the gun battle led the police team to recover the body of the outfit’s deputy commander in-chief Matchallang, who was identified through the ID card recovered from his body.

Matchallang who was one of the most wanted rebels in the region, was notorious as a dreaded killer and had gunned down Orget Sangma, a village elder from Dambuk on August 2 last year.

Matchallang was also responsible for the murder of GNLA cadre Kamdak and former finance secretary of the outfit Rakkam D Shira at the orders of outfit’s chief commander Sohan D Shira.

The slain militant leader was also responsible for the abduction of two village heads — one from Rongdim A’we in South Garo Hills and another from Reangdim in West Khasi Hills last year.

Police also recovered one AK-56 assault rifle along with a magazine, live ammunitions, huge number of empty cartridges, 3 kg of gelatin sticks, Chinese grenades, GNLA demand pads and receipt books, seals, printers, Bangladeshi currency notes, Claymore box for IEDs and personal diaries among others.

A search of nearby villages was also on for any GNLA cadres who might have been injured and taken refuge among villagers.

Meanwhile, security forces have intensified operation against rebels belonging to the NSCN-K and ULFA (I) in southern Arunachal Pradesh areas bordering Myanmar following inputs that rebels might try to sneak into eastern Assam areas to strike terror before Republic Day.

 

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