Insurgency in Manipur: Is the Indian Claim of "Surgical Strike" across International Border Just Some (More) Hot Air? Explores a Journalist from Manipur
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https://groups.yahoo.com/…/ind…/conversations/messages/56455
Known rebel groups from Nagaland and Manipur have all clarified,
either through press releases or else phone calls to the press, that
they know of no such attacks on their camps. As it is, in the Kabaw
valley most of them do not stay in camps, but in the townships,
merging with the local populations and only reassemble when duty
calls.
...
There is yet one more uncertainty. The insurgents are not faceless
people. They are in many ways prodigal children of families in Manipur
and Nagaland, and their families are always in deep anxiety about
their individual fates. Families do everything to woo their children
back, and whenever there are news of encounters, they head for the
mortuaries in town to identify bodies. Many mothers are known to
suffer anxiety disorders. This is why insurgents are compelled to
announce deaths of their cadres promptly, otherwise the families and
communities of the dead fighters would turn against them. In the 4
June ambush, two militants, one Naga and another Meitei, also died.
Within a day, they were both identified. If 15 to 100 militants have
been killed in the border area of Myanmar on 9 June, it is unlikely
this would have remained unconfirmed through this channel by now,
unless all those killed belonged to Myanmar.
either through press releases or else phone calls to the press, that
they know of no such attacks on their camps. As it is, in the Kabaw
valley most of them do not stay in camps, but in the townships,
merging with the local populations and only reassemble when duty
calls.
...
There is yet one more uncertainty. The insurgents are not faceless
people. They are in many ways prodigal children of families in Manipur
and Nagaland, and their families are always in deep anxiety about
their individual fates. Families do everything to woo their children
back, and whenever there are news of encounters, they head for the
mortuaries in town to identify bodies. Many mothers are known to
suffer anxiety disorders. This is why insurgents are compelled to
announce deaths of their cadres promptly, otherwise the families and
communities of the dead fighters would turn against them. In the 4
June ambush, two militants, one Naga and another Meitei, also died.
Within a day, they were both identified. If 15 to 100 militants have
been killed in the border area of Myanmar on 9 June, it is unlikely
this would have remained unconfirmed through this channel by now,
unless all those killed belonged to Myanmar.
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