Border Security

A Crackdown Uncovers a Crisis of Accountability A joint operation by the Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Manipur Police and CoBRA personnel on 23rd October has exposed disturbing violations of the Suspension of Operations (SoO) ground rules. 8 people posing as cadres of the Kuki National Army (KNA) and 9 more …

Continue reading "Camp Sinai Exposé: 17 Arrested for Impersonating Kuki Armed Extremists as Just 1 of 159 Expected Personnel Is Found, Inspite Of Over 100 Deaths and “Stricter Ground Rules,” SoO Enforcement Remains Reactive and Riddled with Loopholes"

The arrest of suspected Kuki armed extremists L. Kipgen, H. Misao and S. Haokip at Phailengkot village in Kangpokpi district on the morning of 20th October marks a significant development in the investigation into the deadly Sunorok hills ambush that claimed the lives of Arubam Ronil, Lairenlakpam Inaobi and Kshetrimayum Sushil. A major cache of …

Continue reading "SUNOROK AMBUSH: Three Kuki Armed Extremists Arrested Over Attack That Killed Three Hindu Meitei Woodcutters, M. L. Thadou Accuses KNF-N of Orchestrating Bloodshed, Alleges Jangboi Kipgen Secretly Heads Outfit While Benefiting From SoO Pact Under KNF(P)"

Bangladeshi National Abdul Khayer Choudhury had lived in India under the guise of a Hindu holy man for 15 years, travelling across the country, gathering disciples and practising faith-based rituals and traditional healing. His remarkable run came to an abrupt end not through a sophisticated intelligence operation, but through the questions of ordinary residents at …

Continue reading "Bangladeshi Abdul K. Choudhury Arrested From Cooch Behar of West Bengal After Living For 15 Years Disguised As A Sadhu"

A midnight movement near India’s porous Bangladesh frontier turned into a major border-security interception with BSF detaining 25 Bangladeshi nationals along with an Indian cross-border trafficker near Lohaganj–Panchnagar under South Dinajpur District of West Bengal. The group was intercepted in the early hours of 6 October while allegedly attempting to cross back into Bangladesh’s Thakurgaon …

Continue reading "Border Breach at Lohaganj: BSF Nabs 25 Bangladeshi Illegal Migrants Sneaking Back Through Unfenced South Dinajpur Border With Indian ‘Dalaal’, Kashmir Work Trail Raises Alarms"

There is something profoundly revealing about an armed movement documenting itself. For years, insurgent organisations depended on secrecy. Today, the smartphone has changed the equation. Fighters can become influencers, camps can become content and footage intended for an audience of sympathisers can leave behind a remarkably detailed digital trail. That trail now warrants serious scrutiny …

Continue reading "From Facebook to The Frontline : Two Manipur-based Cadres of Kuki Armed Extremist Group UTV Document Combat Training, Camp Life, Collaborations Between UTV and Myanmar-based Chin-Kuki Armed Groups, Claimed Military Operations in Myanmar and Manipur and the Church-Militancy Nexus"

The detention of seven suspected Kuki militants, including a church leader, by personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force’s CoBRA unit near Chawangkining village in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on 19th September was followed by violent protests, road blockades and demands for their immediate release. From Protest to Coercion: How Violence Paralyzed NH-2 The seven detainees …

Continue reading "Seven Suspected Kuki Terrorists, Including a Church Leader, Released Within Hours of Mob Violence and NH-2 Blockade: Is Street Pressure Undermining Lawful Investigations in Manipur?"

The proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Manipur is being presented as a means of identifying citizens and addressing concerns over undocumented migration. But identifying citizens is only one part of the challenge. The greater question is whether the government can create a register that is legally defensible, administratively credible and trusted by communities …

Continue reading "Manipur’s NRC : Building a Register That Can Withstand History, Law and Conflict"

Two conferences organised by SEAN Publications in Chattogram and Dhaka brought together an unsettling mix of international preachers and Bangladeshi Islamist hardliners on 21st and 22nd August. SEAN Publication itself describes its seminar programme as part of an effort to build a “well-structured society” and a “welfare-oriented Islamic nation.” Its official programme lists Seminar 5 …

Continue reading "Kolkata-Based Mufti Shamail Nadwi Lectures at Bangladesh Seminars Alongside Hardliners Linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba and AQIS, Both Seminars Push “Shariah,” Curtailment of Women’s Rights and Rejection of Pluralistic Values"

A six-hour-long Dawah Conference was held at the Engineers’ Institute in Chattogram of Bangladesh on 26th July with the stated aim of increasing coordination and spreading Islamic awareness across the Indian subcontinent.   Among its most prominent participants was Maulana Khalilur Rahman Sajjad Nomani, spokesperson and senior member of the All India Muslim Personal Law …

Continue reading "Lucknow-Based AIMPLB Spokesperson Attends Chattagram Conference as Chief Guest Alongside Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al-Qaeda-Linked Islamists, Where Strategies for Islamisation, War Against India and the Cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus Were Discussed"

The 7th August letter from N. Ashok Kumar, Chairman of the Joint Monitoring Group, the tripartite mechanism responsible for supervising and enforcing the ground rules of the Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement, finally delivers a stern written warning to Kuki terrorist groups operating under the arrangement that is available on public domain. The message acknowledges …

Continue reading "Government Finally Moves to Enforce the Rule of Law on Kuki Terrorists Under the SoO Agreement After Three Years of Violence and 160 Lives Lost, But This Warning Too Will Remain an Empty Threat Unless the Structural Failures Behind Years of Impunity Are Fixed"