Kuki and Myanmar factions are being used by Indian military to wage war: NSCN
The Kuki National Army (Burma) operates a bomb factory at Phaiyang, across the border between India and Myanmar, and the fanatical Naga group has accused the armed forces of supplying raw materials to the facility.
The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) announced on Thursday that the Indian armed forces are fighting the Naga Army along the India-Myanmar border by utilizing a Kuki extremist organization and an armed group that supports democracy in civil war-torn Myanmar.
It said that the National Investigation Agency is “spitting venom” by claiming that the NSCN has been aiding extreme Meitei organizations in escalating the ethnic violence between the Kuki-Zo and Meitei groups in Manipur, which has been going on for a year.
According to the NSCN, the People’s Defence Force (PDF) and the Kuki National Army (Burma), or KNA(B), are being used as a proxy war by the Assam Rifles (AR) and the India Army’s para unit in order to murder its members. The group claimed that this was an intentional attempt to bring the NSCN into a dispute that it has avoided in favor of working with the Indian government to reach a political resolution to the “Naga political issue.”
The KNA is the name of the Manipur-based arm of the KNA(B). The Tatmadaw, or Myanmar military, put on a coup on February 1, 2021, and has been battling the PDF, the armed branch of the exiled National Unity Government.
Unfortunately, the paramilitary and AR are openly working with Kuki terrorist organizations to target the NSCN, which is causing warlike tension to flare up along India’s border with Myanmar. Despite the fact that the region is vulnerable to infiltration by various militant groups, no such war-mongering scenario has been seen in recent memory, according to the NSCN.
The NSCN claimed that the Kuki group “is being given unrestrained access” to the crossing locations for easy movement across the India-Myanmar border, despite the KNA and KNA(B) denying any connections to the AR and the paratroopers.
The 1,643 km India-Myanmar border is guarded by the Assam Rifles.
FMR discarding pointless
The radical Naga group claimed that the partisanship of the Indian armed forces toward the Kuki groups has rendered the Ministry of Home Affairs’ decision to abolish the Free Movement Regime (FMR), which permitted people living along the India-Myanmar border to travel up to 16 km within each other’s territory without official documentation, meaningless.
The NSCN stated that although the Indian armed forces view Kuki extremists as “favourable elements” who may “wreck the presence of the Naga Army in Myanmar,” the FMR was abandoned in order to prevent the inward migration of “illegal immigrants” and “undesirable elements.”
The border villagers have witnessed the AR dropping off truckloads of Kuki militants at the frontier. The Indian security forces, KNA(B), and PDF have a close relationship, it stated.
In Myanmar’s Chin Province, which borders Mizoram and Manipur, the NSCN asserted that the Indian armed forces provided war supplies to the KNA(B) and the PDF. The KNA(B) bomb factory in Phaiyang received galvanized iron pipes from the Indian armed forces as well, it stated.
Facing Namlee village in the Kamjong district of Manipur, Phaiyang is a village in Myanmar near the Indian border.
We are waiting for responses from the Assam Rifles and the Indian Army.
