The most sensitive state of NorthEastern region which saw a massive riot resulting in several tortuous deaths and hundreds of houses burnt to rubbles including thousands of people of Maiti and Kuki communities living in relief camps for months together with weapons stolen from the police stations etc is, today again in immense jeopardy. The state has witnessed five deaths on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon riots broke out taking five lives of its inhabitants and three paramilitary Jawans of BSF being severely injured. According to the latest news on Thursday several riots took place in various parts of the state. According to police in Ningthon Kha Khunou area under district Vishnupur the militants killed four persons of Maitai community on Thursday. Those dead by the bullets of the militants were : BINGTHOJAM NAVADEEP, (40) OINAM BAMONJAO, (63) , OINAMB MONITOMBA, ( 37), and THIYAN DOMEN, (56) .
According to the police superintendent of district Vishnupur, all the dead bodies have been recovered and sent for postmortem in Imphal. On the other hand on Thursday in another incident the militants brutally killed a 23 year old Matei community youth namely Takhelambam Manoranjan in Kangchup in Imphal west district.
It may be recalled that in the year May 2023 there had been massive ethnic riots between the majority Maitai and minority Kuki communities which are still continuing here and there though in tits and bits.
Gradually other communities are also becoming the victims of these ethnic clashes and violence. During the last eight months, since the ethnic riots had erupted on massive scale about two hundred people have died and over fifty thousand people of both the communities have become displaced having lost their houses, properties and near and dear ones.
While, expressing the apprehension about the Myanmar militants being involved in these attacks especially on the jawans at border area Moreh, the security advisor Kuldeep Singh said that on Wednesday morning the Kuki extremists had on large numbers fired on Police Commando posts at three locations.
He categorically said that out of these three attacks by extremists from Myanmar in the case of Border area Moreh city there seems to be a definite information about Kuki extremists infiltering from Myanmar and attacking.
In fact about 110 kilometres away the state capital Imphal in Moreh township two paramilitary jawans were killed by these Myanmar extremists said Security Advisor Kuldeep Singh.
According to Kuldeep Singh he is afraid that the PDF rebels active in Moreh and, some security personnel from Myanmar may attack on the paramilitary or state Police.
He also expressed apprehension regarding involvement of the rebellion group of people’s defence Force of Myanmar though he said that there is no definite proof about these apprehensions.
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