Reports: Maoists have trained ULFA insurgents; Security forces seize explosives from ULFA hideout; Manipur CM: More than 30 militant groups operating in state
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  • Reports indicated that the Assam police have issued an alert about the plans of a 300-member group to sneak into the State and carry out subversive activities after undergoing training by the Maoists in Jharkhand. A government official stated that these members, most of them belonging to an organisation ostensibly espousing the cause of farmers (and also believed to be a frontal organisation of ULFA), were from Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state. The official admitted that there were reports of ULFA striking a deal with the Maoists1.

    Security forces meanwhile seized a detailed sketch of Dibrugarh airport, along with a large quantity of explosives, from an ULFA hideout in a dense jungle in Assam’s Dibrugarh district on July 20. Some other sketches, of bridges and oil and gas pipelines, were also seized at the hideout at Seesabil under Tingkhong police station2.

    Manipur chief minister O. Ibobi Singh informed the State Assembly on July 20 that there were more than 30 militants groups in Manipur, including the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), and People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), among other outfits3.

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