Jairampur, Dec 24 (ANI): Six days after a major training camp of the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) was unearthed and destroyed at Longbo village in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap district, security forces destroyed a major training camp of the Khaplang faction and ULFA in Namchik Reserve Forest near Panchum under Kharsang circle of Changlang district of the state.
The area became stronghold of NSCN (K) after the Arunachal Naga Liberation Front (ANLF), a militant outfit active in Tirap and Changlang districts of Arunachal Pradesh, has formally merged with the Khaplang group this year.
On a tip off about the training camp deep in the jungles near Panchum, a plan was chalked out and an operation was conducted by the troops of 18 Assam Rifles to destroy the camp.
As the operation began in the morning, the cadres protecting the camp vacated the hideout on seeing swift and bold advance of the security forces and retreated into dense jungles.
The forces completely brought down the camp which was big enough to house 40-50 cadres and containing 10 temporary huts, two sentry posts and a kitchen and an open bed area, while stores like IEDs and explosives were destroyed by bomb disposal team of the AR. The entire operation was conducted over 36 hours.
It was major blow to the outfits just before the Christmas and the New Year, which evoked appreciation and sense of relief by local populace and civil administration, as it would serve as a morale booster to the denizens of the district, according to an official release.
AFND adds: These camps justify the concern expressed by Intelligence Bureau (IB) special director R N Ravi, who in his address to the 21st conference of DGPs, IGPs and heads of central police organisations of NE at Guwahati Monday, had described both the districts as 'emerging areas of threat'.
Expressing serious concern at numerous cases of bloodshed, kidnapping murder and unabated violence by both factions both the districts were declared disturbed under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 on September 17, 1991 at the recommendation of the GoAP.
The order was in force up to 1977 till the intervention of the Supreme Court directing the GoAP to review the situation every six months. The Act was extended again on March 23, 2002 facilitating Army operations in both districts. The last extension was 20th June 2010. (ANI)
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