ULFA-I Alleges Drone Strikes On Myanmar Headquarters; Indian Military Refutes Declare

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 had been killed, whereas 19 had been additionally injured.

Nevertheless, the Indian Military has denied any position within the alleged drone assaults on the Myanmar headquarters of ULFA-I. 

Senior ULFA-I Commander Killed? 

In line with the information company IANS, studies have prompt 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, had been additionally reportedly killed, and a few had been injured.

Indian Military Denies Function 

Chatting with IANS, Lieutenant Colonel Mahendra Rawat, PRO Defence Guwahati, refuted any involvement of the Indian Military in such an operation.

“There aren’t any inputs with the Indian Military on such an operation,” Lt Col Rawat mentioned. 

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. Then again, one other senior commander of the banned outfit working out of Myanmar camps, Rupom Asom, was arrested by Assam Police in Could.

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 could possibly be an infighting or disagreement amongst these outlawed outfits. 

Individuals acquainted with the matter informed IANS that these assaults on ULFA (I) headquarters could possibly be as a result of infighting amongst these banned outfits.

Myanmar’s Political Situation

Myanmar is at present 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 occasions by these proscribed outfits, akin to ULFA-I, to arrange their camps there.

In Could 2025, a minimum of 10 militants had 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)