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Burmese Junta shelters North East Indian rebels

Maung Daw, August 20: Rebels of North East India are allowed free access within the region of Maung-daw Township, in western Burma, despite the Burmese Military Junta's repeated assurance to the New Delhi government, of the non-existence of these Indian insurgents within the Burma territory, according to local sources.

“I was really surprised to see some youths, not in Burmese military uniforms, but armed with the Chinese-made automatic guns, wandering around the Maung-daw market. Later I realized that they were Ka-tsay insurgents,” said a resident of the area. The Assamese and Manipuri, of North East India, are called Ka-tsay in Arakanese.

It was learned that more than a hundred Indian insurgents are currently taking shelterin the region, and their number has increased after a Bhutan operation, to oust the Indian rebels, began last December.

A local businessman, who is involved in exchanging money with the insurgents, disclosed that there are also women among them and they are escorted by local military intelligence, MI-18, whenever they visit Maung-daw.

The military junta is, however, still reluctant to admit to New Delhi’s accusation of sheltering the insurgents, which was made after a deadly blast that killed 15 people, many of them children, during a celebration of the Indian Independence Day, in Assam State of northeastern India. #

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