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  • Assam Rifles launches skill training camp for Manipur insurgents

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: In an effort to impart skill-based training to insurgents living in the suspension of operations camp, Assam Rifles on Wednesday launched a first-of- its-kind programme.

    The programme covers Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) cadre living at Muvanlai (New Teikot), Khuga Battalion. The camp has been named Siamzilna Leh Kilamthanka, which means ‘new skills, renewed lives’.

    It was inaugurated by Major General Alok Naresh, Inspector General of Assam Rifles (South). Major General Naresh said, “The endeavour is to empower the trainees to successfully compete with their counterparts in the professional and social domains.”

    Speaking about the overall plan, Lt Col Mohit Vaishnava, PRO of Defence Manipur, said, “Training will be organised in multiple phases, for  30 days each. The first phase will include skills like sewing, carpentry and IT training. Training for subsequent phases will be upgraded to other result-oriented skills based on the feedback from the trainees.”

    For this camp, Assam Rifles coordinated with Humanism Foundation, which works with National Skill Development Corporation. The Humanism Foundation, a non government organisation, provided assistance in arranging equipment and trainers for the Skill Development Training. 

    There are 73 inhabitants in the identified camp who are mainly engaged in camp maintenance and other activities like pisciculture, goat farming, paddy farming and other forms of organic farming. The produce for the consumption of the cadres in the camp.

  • Manipur: Four insurgents neutralised in Hingorani

    By ANI

    IMPHAL: Four insurgents were neutralised by security forces in a joint operation in Manipur’s Hingojang.

    The joint operation was launched by Assam Rifles and Indian Army’s 3 Corps on Saturday. The change of fire started on Sunday morning. The insurgents belonged to Kuki group.

    “Security Forces of Assam Rifles under Spear Corps, Indian Army launched a joint operation on 09 Oct in Hingojang, Manipur. Area cordoned & firefight started in the morning of 10 Oct. Four insurgents neutralised. Operation in progress,” PRO Defence, Imphal tweeted.

    Further operations are underway. 

  • ‘Let democracy return, we will throw you out’: Myanmar group to Manipur insurgents

    By Express News Service

    GUWAHATI: A pro-democracy organisation in coup-hit Myanmar said it would evict the insurgents from Manipur, operating out of the country’s soil, following the return of democracy.

    In a “warning statement”, the People’s Defence Force, which is based in Myanmar’s Tamu and Sagaing region, asked the insurgents to immediately stop fighting against the Myanmar nationals in league with the military.

    “We strongly believe that we will win shortly. This is to let them know that when democracy is restored, they shall not be allowed to live in Myanmar. So, we warn them to immediately stop supporting and working with the military forces,” the statement said.

    The organisation said instead of living in democratic Manipur and India, the extremists were operating out of Tamu and Sagaing region and fighting against people of the country.

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    “We warn them to immediately stop supporting and working with the military and stop fighting us. If they don’t care about this warning, they will be listed, in generation(s) to come, as the people who don’t like democracy in Myanmar,” the statement said.

    “Democracy for us, the people of Myanmar, went away when the military took over the country on February 1, 2021. Since then, we have been making every effort to fight against the forces to get a federal democratic system in our country,” the statement further said.

    The organisation is optimistic that democracy in the country will return soon.

    Some militant organisations from the Northeast, including United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and People’s Liberation Army of Manipur, have their bases in Myanmar.

    Ever since their coming together a few years ago under the banner of Western South East Asia or WESEA, they have carried out several coordinated attacks on the security forces in Northeast.