‘Wrong narrative,’ says Army chief on claim that 900 Kuki militants from Myanmar infiltrated Manipur
Persons coming from the neighbouring country were ‘unarmed’ and looking for shelter, General Upendra Dwivedi said, adding that India would provide them shelter.
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The claim by the Manipur government in September that more than 900 suspected Kuki militants from Myanmar had infiltrated the state is incorrect, Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said on Tuesday.
Responding to questions at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue about the situation in Manipur, Dwivedi said that “we should not allow wrong narratives to be built up”.
“There was…wrong narrative [that] 900 anti-national elements have infiltrated [Manipur],” he said. “We checked up, there’s nothing like that. So if we control that, I think things will be alright.”
On September 25, Manipur’s Security Adviser Kuldiep Singh and Director General of Police Rajiv Singh also clarified that a recent intelligence report from the chief minister’s office claiming that more than 900 Kuki militants had entered the state from Myanmar could not be verified.
The militants were “expected to launch multiple coordinated attacks on Meitei villages around September 28”, the report had claimed. Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s office retracted the claim on September 16.
Dwivedi also said that the “narrative of the bomb drones” was false. “There’s no bomb drone,” he said.
On September 1, the Manipur Police said that the use of “high-tech drones” by alleged Kuki militants to deploy explosives against security forces and civilians marked a “significant escalation” in the ethnic clashes in the state.
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