The banned United Liberation Entrance of Asom-Impartial (ULFA-I) on Sunday claimed that there have been drone assaults on its Japanese headquarters in Myanmar by the Indian Military. The proscribed outfit in a press assertion additional claimed that within the strikes, its 19 cadres have been killed, whereas 19 have been additionally injured.
Nevertheless, the Indian Military has denied any function within the alleged drone assaults on the Myanmar headquarters of ULFA-I.
Senior ULFA-I Commander Killed?
In accordance with the information company IANS, reviews have advised that senior ULFA-I Commander Nayan Medhi was killed within the drone assault. Moreover, some cadres of Manipuri rebel teams, together with the Revolutionary Individuals’s Entrance (RPF), which is the political wing of the Individuals’s Liberation Military (PLA) of Manipur current on the camp, have been additionally reportedly killed, and a few have been injured.
Indian Military Denies Function
Talking to IANS, Lieutenant Colonel Mahendra Rawat, PRO Defence Guwahati, refuted any involvement of the Indian Military in such an operation.
“There are not any inputs with the Indian Military on such an operation,” Lt Col Rawat stated.
ULFA-I’s Hyperlinks In Myanmar
ULFA (I), which is led by Paresh Baruah, is now reportedly left with just one senior functionary, Arunodoy Dohotiya, who’s in Myanmar. Alternatively, one other senior commander of the banned outfit working out of Myanmar camps, Rupom Asom, was arrested by Assam Police in Might.
The information company reported, citing sources, that Baruah additionally has deep hyperlinks with Pakistan’s Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI) and was reportedly staying in bordering areas of China-Myanmar-India (Arunachal Pradesh).
Nevertheless, the explanation behind the assaults on ULFA-I’s headquarters might be an infighting or disagreement amongst these outlawed outfits.
Individuals accustomed to the matter informed IANS that these assaults on ULFA (I) headquarters might be as a result of infighting amongst these banned outfits.
Myanmar’s Political State of affairs
Myanmar is presently being dominated by the Tatmadaw (Military) and is witnessing a spate of assaults by a number of militant outfits, and the India-Myanmar border has been used a number of instances by these proscribed outfits, similar to ULFA-I, to arrange their camps there.
In Might 2025, at the least 10 militants have been killed in an encounter with safety forces close to the India-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Chandel district.
The preventing and exercise of militants close to the border is a matter of concern for the Indian safety institution.
(with IANS inputs)