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India-Pakistan
Banned DeM operates freely in Kashmir
2017-06-10
[THENORTHLINES] SRINAGAR: Dukhtaran-e-Milat led by Asiya Andrabi figures among the 36 bully boy groups in the banned list, framed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Despite being banned, the group is operating in the valley and also running the office.

The NIA last Saturday raided houses of several Hurriyat leaders in connection with a case of alleged funding received by separatist groups for carrying out subversive activities in the valley. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
 none from the separatist camp except the DeM figures in the banned list of 36 organizations by the NIA for carrying out "unlawful activities". In its official website, the NIA has put the DeM led by Asiya Andrabi under "Schedule I ‐ First Schedule (of the UA (P) Act, 1967) Terrorist Organisations".

According to the Act, "Any association can be declared unlawful if the central government is of the opinion that any association is, or has become an unlawful, it may by notification in the official gazette declare such association to be unlawful".

DeM is an all women outfit, was founded in 1987, and has been advocating to separate J&K from India.

It chief Asiya Andrabi was tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
 from her Soura residence on April 27, and booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA).

The grounds of PSA order prepared by the police call Asiya a "diehard secessionist" whose "endeavour is to secede the state of J&K from union of India and in order to achieve it she has indulged in anti-national activities and has played an important role in 2008 Amarnath agitation and also in 2010 and 2016 summer unrest by announcing programs/rallies with secessionist elements".

In the NIA’s banned list, there are some of the bully boy groups who have or are operating in the valley like Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/ Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment, Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
/Tahrik-e-Furqan, Jammu and Kashmire Islamic Front, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen/Harkat-ul-Ansar/Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and Lashkar-E-Taiba/Pasban-E-Ahle Hadis.

Besides that there are groups like Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, International Sikh Youth Federation, al-Umar-Mujahideen, United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam, People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), All Tripura Tiger Force, National Liberation Front of Tripura, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Students Islamic Movement of India, Deendar Anjuman, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) -People’s War, Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), Al Badr, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, al-Qaeda, Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA), Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT), Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES), Communist Party of India (Maoist), Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
, and Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) which too figures in the banned list.
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India-Pakistan
Bangladesh hands over separatist leader to India
2010-10-14
[Pak Daily Times] A prominent separatist leader from the north-east Indian state of Manipur has been jugged in Bangladesh and handed over, senior Indian officials say.

Rajkumar Meghen, who leads the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), was held by Bangladeshi police earlier this month, the officials said. Mr Meghen, whose alias is Sanayaima, was flown out of Bangladesh recently in an Indian aircraft, the officials said.

The UNLF is the oldest separatist group in India's north-east. Formed in 1964 to fight for Manipur's liberation from India, the group is estimated to have 5,000 armed fighters. It is the only group which has managed to retain territory in some areas of Manipur's borders with Burma, despite repeated military offensives by the Indian army.

Bangladesh has handed over more than 50 top leaders and muscle of Indian separatist groups since a crackdown began in 2009. Many more have decamped Bangladesh to evade capture or been caught on the border by Indian guards. Indian officials said Mr Meghen had moved to the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, from his hideout in Burma's Sagaing Division to line up an arms deal.

His movements were tracked by monitoring his communication with the arms dealers, they said. Analysts say India may be trying to influence the UNLF leader to start negotiations. But he has steadfastly refused to talk with India.
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India-Pakistan
Six troopers killed in ambush
2008-03-16
IMPHAL — Six paramilitary troopers were killed and four wounded yesterday in an ambush by separatist militants in Manipur, officials said. A police spokesman said militants of the outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF) ambushed a post of the paramilitary Assam Rifles at village Minou in Chandel district, about 120 km south-west of capital Imphal.

"Six Assam Rifles soldiers were killed and four injured in the attack with UNLF militants using automatic weapons. The Assam Rifles soldiers were caught unawares with the militants carrying out the strike just before dawn on Saturday," a senior police official said. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack. "The location where the Assam Rifles camp was based is almost on the edge of India's border with Myanmar and the militants may have sneaked back to their bases across the border," the official said.

The UNLF, fighting for an independent homeland for the majority Metei community in the state of 2.4 million people, has claimed responsibility for the attack by calling up local newspaper offices. There are over 19 groups active with demands ranging from secession to greater autonomy. Many militant groups have bases in Myanmar with Manipur sharing an unfenced border with the junta-ruled country.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Indian rebel group offers peace with conditions
2005-02-04
GUWAHATI: A powerful rebel group in India's troubled northeast offered on Thursday to hold peace talks with New Delhi to end a four-decade revolt but set conditions unlikely to be accepted by the federal government. The outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF), battling for freedom for nearly two million people in the mountainous state of Manipur, said it was willing to "end the conflict once and for all" if New Delhi allowed UN mediation.

A statement from UNLF chief Sana Yaima said authorities should organise a UN-monitored plebiscite in Manipur, replace federal forces with UN peacekeepers and transfer political power as mandated by the referendum. "Now it is up to the government of India to decide and reciprocate our gesture. We will wait for Delhi's response," Yaima said. Formed in 1964, the UNLF says it is waging an armed struggle against New Delhi's "colonial occupation" of the former princely state of Manipur. The group has about 1,200 combatants, including 100 highly trained women guerrillas. The UNLF, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) and PREPAK, are three major rebel groups active in Manipur. The call by the UNLF comes after that rebel group and the PLA suffered heavy losses in the past three months during campaigns by the Indian military. Arms sourced from gun-runners in Southeast Asian countries had also been seized, an intelligence source said.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
India says 100 rebels killed in revolt-hit Manipur
2005-01-19
GUWAHATI: India's army said on Tuesday it had killed 126 separatist rebels and captured several hundred more in a crackdown begun three months ago in the revolt-hit northeastern state of Manipur. Since operations intensified in October, 459 rebels have been captured in Manipur, one of seven remote northeastern states that are hotbeds of ethnic and tribal fighting for autonomy or independence, the army said. Soldiers have smashed key rebel bases belonging to the outlawed United National Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, the army said in a statement. "The rebels are on the run and we are getting full cooperation from Myanmar", which is preventing insurgents from sneaking across the border, the statement said.
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India-Pakistan
Separatists give assurance abducted German national will be released
2003-03-30
A tribal separatist group in India's northeastern state of Manipur Sunday said it would release a kidnapped German aid worker within the next week after completing the "investigation" now underway in their hideout. "We are investigating the credentials and integrity of the German national in our camp and the process might take another five to six days," a spokesman of the outlawed Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) told local journalists in Manipur.
The "Kookie Liberation Army"? That's a new one on me...
KLA militants abducted Heinrich Wolfgang, a Bonn-based aid worker,on March 23 from the village Maphou, 30 kilometers east of Manipur's capital Imphal. Wolfgang was kidnapped while on his way to a community development program funded by the German non-government organization, Evangelicher Entwicklings Dienst, which he was to oversee. The German fund was being given for relief and rehabilitation work on displaced refugees of a violent ethnic conflict in the state torn between tribal Nagas and Kukis.
The Nagas are about the ugliest bunch, as a group, that I've ever seen. Can't say I've ever seen a Kuki, though, so they might be even uglier...
The rebel group refuted earlier reports that blamed the outfit of demanding 10 million rupees as ransom money to secure the release of the German worker. "There was discrimination against the tribal Kukis in the implementation of the German-backed development program and so we have abducted him," the rebel leader said.
I always do that when I can't get my way, too...
"Food and clothes were being provided to Wolfgang through the negotiators and we understand he is safe and sound," a senior police official told IRNA by telephone from Imphal. The abduction of the German worker has sparked off a string of protests in Manipur with women groups and rival rebel armies terming the kidnapping as a "blemish" on the region's image.
How do you "blemish" a zit?
"The abduction of a foreign national for ransom is a blemish on the freedom struggle in the northeast," a statement by the Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF) said. The MPLF is an umbrella organization of the outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF), the Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) and the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK).
Seems like everybody's got his own army in those parts...
The KLA is fighting for an independent homeland for the tribal Kukis in Manipur. There are more than 19 separatist groups in Manipur with demands ranging from secession to greater autonomy and the right to self-determination.
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Terror Networks
Three militants killed in factional fight
2002-05-21
Three militants were killed and several injured in a factional fight between underground groups at Doltang bordering Assam on Sunday last, official sources said on Tuesday. The underground Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF) insurgents and militants belonging to a joint group of NSCN (I-M), Zou Revolutionary Army and People's Union of Liberation Front (PULF) were locked in a gunbattle at Doltang, about 240 kilometres from Imphal. The exchange of fire between the two warring groups took place in the thick jungles and lasted for the entire day, the sources said.
It took 'em all day to bump off three snuffies?
The bodies of those killed were carried to the thick jungles by the militants. A spokesman of the MPLF, told PTI here that they suffered no casualties.
Well, none in the office where he works, anyway...
The MPLF comprises three underground groups - United National Liberation Front, People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak and People's Liberation Army.
Thank you for that detailed examination of some of the lice on India's body politic.
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Terror Networks
India to clean house in Manipur
2002-02-16
  • The BSF on Saturday sent troops to remote areas in Manipur to drive out guerrillas threatening to disrupt ongoing elections. "I've sent my ground forces to free Chakpikarong and Sajik Tampak areas of Chandel district from rebels who are holding the area for quite some time," P K Mishra, deputy inspector general of the Border Security Force said in Imphal.

    More than 300 guerrillas armed with weapons, including anti-aircraft guns, and had threatened to disrupt voting in the area. Mishra said ground troops backed by helicopters had moved towards guerrilla strongholds in the thickly-forested mountains. "By this evening, we hope to drive the militants out and dominate the area with Indian forces. Before that I am expecting some heavy gun battles."

    Chandel, which borders Myanmar, is about 75 km south of Imphal. Armed groups such as the Peoples Liberation Army, United National Liberation Front, Peoples Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Issak-Muivah) faction have set up training and base camps there.
    Sometimes it seems like you can't throw a rock in India without hitting either a jihadi or a member of some other kind of "People's Liberation Front." Sheesh. "National Socialist Council of Nagaland"? I shudder to think.
    What you've picked up on are two problems the Indians have:
    a. Kashmir isn't their only ethnic separatist problem, and New Delhi ain't gonna let Kashmir go as then Assam and Nagaland and perhaps some Tamil area starts getting some big idea that they want to separate also.
    b. If you have all your troops on the Pakistani border, who's watching the Burmese loonies or the Bengal Muslims? I'm sure the Indian Army is pulling out their military records dating back to the Raj concerning putting out several fires at one time. Where's a Clive when you need one?
    Posted by Tom Roberts 2/16/2002 2:33:31 PM
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