Manipur on High Alert as Intel Warns of Influx of 900 Tribal Militants from Myanmar

Imphal: As tensions over Manipur continues, Manipur CM N Biren Singh forwarded a purported intelligence report about the influx of 900 Tribals from Myanmar, who are trained in the use of drones, missiles and other skills as part of a mission to launch a coordinated attack on villages in Imphal later this month, a super media reports.

Kuldeep Singh, the security adviser to the BJP -led state government, said Friday that "until this intelligence input is proved wrong, we believe it is 100% correct and prepare for that."

Furthermore, the ex-CRPF director general on deputation to Manipur said, "If it does not come true, either it didn't happen or our efforts didn't let it happen. Either way, you cannot take it lightly."

This comes after CMP on September 16 stated that several tribal militants "are reportedly grouped in units of 30 members each and currently scattered on the periphery, and expected to launch multiple coordinated attacks."

Following this, a strategic meeting was held on  September 18, where the CM planned measures that had been communicated to relevant agencies with a directive that any militant be "nipped in the bud."

He added that traditional additional combing operations focused on seizing arms have been launched with  "increased scrutiny" of materials used to manufacture rockets, missiles, drone components, and batteries.

"DMs have been alerted and asked to check stocks of explosives with licensed owners. All connected roads and villages within a 5km radius of the hills are also being checked for stockpiles."

""The availability of weapons in society in both the hills and the valley is not because of looting (from state armouries and police stations). They were already available much before (the ethnic conflict began). Single-barrel breech loaders and double-barrel breech loaders were there, some of them licensed and some manufactured illegally," he added.