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MIZORAM ARMS HAUL 2013 – Sophisticated arms were intended for arming Shanti Bahini in Bangladesh.
On March 7 and 8, 2013, in a major arms haul - the biggest haul in Mizoram thus far and one of the biggest in the Northeast in recent years - the Mizoram Police and Assam Rifles seized 31 AK-47 assault rifles, one Singapore-made Light Machine Gun (LMG), one US-made Browning automatic rifle, 809 rounds of ammunition, and 32 magazines, from a farmhouse near the Lengpui Airport, on the outskirts of State capital, Aizawl. On March 7, Police seized 23 AK-47 rifles, one LMG and one Browning rifle and also arrested three Bangladeshi Chakma tribals in connection with the seizure. Mizoram Police's Superintendant of Police (SP), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Crime branch, Joseph Lalchhuana, disclosed that the Police further acted on information derived from the interrogation of the three Bangladeshi Chakma tribals and on March 8 recovered eight AK-47 assault rifles and 809 rounds of ammunition at a location near the spot of the first seizure. According to police, cases under the Arms Act, Foreigners Act and the Indian Passport Act were registered against the arrestees at Sairang Police Station, where the arms were seized. The arrestees were identified as Robi Chakma, Soboz Chakma and Moni Tripura.
Three days later, on March 12, 2013, the Mizoram Police disclosed that it had proof that the sophisticated arms seized were to be delivered to the Parbotia Chatagram Jana Sangata Samiti (PCJSS) – a forum claiming to fight for the rights of the indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) tribes of Bangladesh. Police added that the three Chakma tribals arrested from the farmhouse belonged to the PCJSS of the erstwhile Shanti Bahini. SP Lalchhuana disclosed, further, that the arms were smuggled from Myanmar and were to be delivered to the PCJSS in Bangladesh. The person who smuggled the arms into India through the porous Mizoram-Myanmar border had reportedly returned to Myanmar and was hiding there. On March 13, Director General Assam Rifles Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh confirmed the Police disclosures. The three arrested persons were remanded to Police custody and were being interrogated by the Police and central intelligence agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had also been informed about the arms seizure.
South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), Weekly Assessments & Briefings
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The government should immediately arrest the leadership of the PCJSS and determine what is going on and press the Indian authorities for information ..... One possible explanation is that the arms were intended for the PCJSS to fight the Hefezat-e-Islam in Chittagong ....
On March 7 and 8, 2013, in a major arms haul - the biggest haul in Mizoram thus far and one of the biggest in the Northeast in recent years - the Mizoram Police and Assam Rifles seized 31 AK-47 assault rifles, one Singapore-made Light Machine Gun (LMG), one US-made Browning automatic rifle, 809 rounds of ammunition, and 32 magazines, from a farmhouse near the Lengpui Airport, on the outskirts of State capital, Aizawl. On March 7, Police seized 23 AK-47 rifles, one LMG and one Browning rifle and also arrested three Bangladeshi Chakma tribals in connection with the seizure. Mizoram Police's Superintendant of Police (SP), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Crime branch, Joseph Lalchhuana, disclosed that the Police further acted on information derived from the interrogation of the three Bangladeshi Chakma tribals and on March 8 recovered eight AK-47 assault rifles and 809 rounds of ammunition at a location near the spot of the first seizure. According to police, cases under the Arms Act, Foreigners Act and the Indian Passport Act were registered against the arrestees at Sairang Police Station, where the arms were seized. The arrestees were identified as Robi Chakma, Soboz Chakma and Moni Tripura.
Three days later, on March 12, 2013, the Mizoram Police disclosed that it had proof that the sophisticated arms seized were to be delivered to the Parbotia Chatagram Jana Sangata Samiti (PCJSS) – a forum claiming to fight for the rights of the indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) tribes of Bangladesh. Police added that the three Chakma tribals arrested from the farmhouse belonged to the PCJSS of the erstwhile Shanti Bahini. SP Lalchhuana disclosed, further, that the arms were smuggled from Myanmar and were to be delivered to the PCJSS in Bangladesh. The person who smuggled the arms into India through the porous Mizoram-Myanmar border had reportedly returned to Myanmar and was hiding there. On March 13, Director General Assam Rifles Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh confirmed the Police disclosures. The three arrested persons were remanded to Police custody and were being interrogated by the Police and central intelligence agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had also been informed about the arms seizure.
South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), Weekly Assessments & Briefings
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The government should immediately arrest the leadership of the PCJSS and determine what is going on and press the Indian authorities for information ..... One possible explanation is that the arms were intended for the PCJSS to fight the Hefezat-e-Islam in Chittagong ....
