Assam Insurgency

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today congratulated the Assam Rifles for what he said was the arrest of a "Burmese national" who is allegedly a member of the Myanmar-based insurgent group Kuki National Army (Burma), or KNA(B).

A 34-year-old man from Manipur's hill district Churachandpur has been arrested from Guwahati by the Assam special task force (STF) for alleged involvement in sabotage activities linked to the insurgent group United Kuki National Army, or UKLA.

With their heads tonsured and cigarette burns on bodies, two teenage boys returned home in Mizoram after being held captive by militants in adjoining Myanmar's Chin state for nearly a week, an Assam Rifles officer said on Sunday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has raised concerns that Bangladesh may once again become a safehouse of insurgents from India's northeast, following the violent ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The parents of three "insurgents" from the Hmar tribes killed in an encounter in Assam's Cachar district have filed a police complaint alleging they were innocent and were killed in police custody.

Those who spread misleading and fake information on social media about the encounter between police and suspected insurgents in Assam's Cachar are likely to face legal action, police sources have said.

Three Hmar insurgents were killed and several police personnel were injured in a fierce encounter in Assam's Cachar district on Wednesday, officials said.

Suspected insurgents fired at an armoured vehicle of the security forces in Manipur's Jiribam this morning, hours before Congress MP Rahul Gandhi arrived in the district bordering Assam to meet internally displaced people living in relief camps.

Manipur's Jiribam district bordering Assam had remained untouched by the ethnic crisis for over a year. Until Saturday last, when the mutilated body of a 59-year-old man from the Meitei community was found.

Manipur BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh has called for action against top police officers over the attack by heavily armed "Kuki insurgents" in Manipur's Jiribam district bordering Assam on Sunday.

The army engaged in a fierce gunfight with unknown armed people and rescued 75 women of a social and cultural institution in Manipur, according to a statement by the military on Sunday.

A key bridge on National Highway 2 in Manipur connecting the state capital Imphal and cities in neighbouring Assam and Nagaland was damaged in multiple bomb attacks by insurgents, the police said on Wednesday.

Pakistan armed and trained the first batch of insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in 1991-92, and sent them back to India to stir trouble in the northeast region, according to writer and researcher Rajeev Bhattacharyya.

Videos of a tense stand-off between the Assam Rifles and a group of armed men in Manipur's border town Moreh have emerged on social media, raising questions over how a few armed men stopped the security forces from moving around.

A total of 104 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mizoram during armed clashes with an ethnic insurgent group in the neighbouring country, have been sent back, an Assam Rifles official said on Wednesday.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today congratulated the Assam Rifles for what he said was the arrest of a "Burmese national" who is allegedly a member of the Myanmar-based insurgent group Kuki National Army (Burma), or KNA(B).

A 34-year-old man from Manipur's hill district Churachandpur has been arrested from Guwahati by the Assam special task force (STF) for alleged involvement in sabotage activities linked to the insurgent group United Kuki National Army, or UKLA.

With their heads tonsured and cigarette burns on bodies, two teenage boys returned home in Mizoram after being held captive by militants in adjoining Myanmar's Chin state for nearly a week, an Assam Rifles officer said on Sunday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has raised concerns that Bangladesh may once again become a safehouse of insurgents from India's northeast, following the violent ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The parents of three "insurgents" from the Hmar tribes killed in an encounter in Assam's Cachar district have filed a police complaint alleging they were innocent and were killed in police custody.

Those who spread misleading and fake information on social media about the encounter between police and suspected insurgents in Assam's Cachar are likely to face legal action, police sources have said.

Three Hmar insurgents were killed and several police personnel were injured in a fierce encounter in Assam's Cachar district on Wednesday, officials said.

Suspected insurgents fired at an armoured vehicle of the security forces in Manipur's Jiribam this morning, hours before Congress MP Rahul Gandhi arrived in the district bordering Assam to meet internally displaced people living in relief camps.

Manipur's Jiribam district bordering Assam had remained untouched by the ethnic crisis for over a year. Until Saturday last, when the mutilated body of a 59-year-old man from the Meitei community was found.

Manipur BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh has called for action against top police officers over the attack by heavily armed "Kuki insurgents" in Manipur's Jiribam district bordering Assam on Sunday.

The army engaged in a fierce gunfight with unknown armed people and rescued 75 women of a social and cultural institution in Manipur, according to a statement by the military on Sunday.

A key bridge on National Highway 2 in Manipur connecting the state capital Imphal and cities in neighbouring Assam and Nagaland was damaged in multiple bomb attacks by insurgents, the police said on Wednesday.

Pakistan armed and trained the first batch of insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in 1991-92, and sent them back to India to stir trouble in the northeast region, according to writer and researcher Rajeev Bhattacharyya.

Videos of a tense stand-off between the Assam Rifles and a group of armed men in Manipur's border town Moreh have emerged on social media, raising questions over how a few armed men stopped the security forces from moving around.

A total of 104 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mizoram during armed clashes with an ethnic insurgent group in the neighbouring country, have been sent back, an Assam Rifles official said on Wednesday.