Top ULFA(I) leaders killed in ‘drone strikes’ on Myanmar camp

Army denies engagement is attacks

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Several apical cadres of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent), oregon ULFA(I), including its third-in-command Nayan Mehdi, person reportedly been killed successful suspected drone strikes astatine 1 of the outfit’s camps wrong Myanmar.

The camp, located astir 15 km eastbound of the India-Myanmar borderline successful Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district, was deed successful the aboriginal hours successful what look to person been coordinated drone attacks.

While ULFA(I) has accused the Army of carrying retired the strikes, authoritative sources successful New Delhi person denied immoderate relation by the Army successful the operation, , a quality bureau quoted ULFA (I).

In a statement, ULFA(I) said aggregate mobile camps on the Myanmar borderline were targeted by drones. It claimed that elder person Nayan Mehdi, besides known arsenic Nayan Asom, who held the self-styled fertile of Lieutenant General, was killed, and astir 19 others were injured.

The outfit alleged that much than 150 drones were utilized successful the attack, and that they were manufactured successful Israel and France. ULFA(I) further claimed that during Mehdi’s funeral, caller drone strikes killed 2 much elder cadres — ‘Brigadier’ Ganesh Asom and ‘Colonel’ Pradip Asom.

Unconfirmed reports from Myanmar besides suggest that camps belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang), oregon NSCN(K), whitethorn person travel nether onslaught arsenic well. The ULFA(I) and NSCN(K) are known to stock camps successful Myanmar’s Sagaing region.

The ULFA(I), led by fugitive Paresh Baruah, continues to cull negotiations with the Indian authorities unless the contented of Assam’s sovereignty is brought to the table. It has referred to New Delhi arsenic a “colonial power” and the Indian equipped forces arsenic “occupational forces”.

The Army and paramilitary Assam Rifles presently defender the 1,643-km India-Myanmar border.

The ULFA(I) remains the lone progressive insurgent radical from Assam that has neither entered into bid talks nor signed immoderate statement with the government.