Manipur: Suspected Myanmar-based Kuki militants allegedly attack Naga villages in Kamjong

Suspected Myanmar-based Kuki militants allegedly attacked Naga villages in Manipur’s Kamjong district on Thursday, The Hindu reported.

Kamjong borders Myanmar. The Tangkhul Nagas are the dominant community in the district.

Around 100 heavily armed men attacked three villages – Choro, Wanglee and Namlee – located close to the international border, an apex body of the Tangkhul Nagas was quoted as saying by the newspaper. The men fired indiscriminately and also set fire to 18 houses.

The working committee of the Tangkhul Naga Long also said that two civilians sustained bullet injuries while several others were rounded up at gunpoint and tortured by the armed men, reported The Hindu.

The attack came days after three persons were killed and several others injured in the Ukhrul district on April 24 after violence broke out between the Kuki and Naga communities.

Two of those killed were Kukis, while the third was a Tangkhul Naga.

On Thursday, Naga People’s Front MLA Leishiyo Keishing, who represents the Phungyar constituency, also alleged that the militants abducted two persons before returning to Myanmar.

Keishing claimed that the attack was carried out from across the border by Myanmar-based militant groups Kuki National Army (Burma) and the People’s Defence Force, PTI reported.

“So far, the state had been seeing internal conflicts, but today there has been external aggression,” the news agency quoted him as...

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