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Myanmar-based Kuki extremists allegedly carried out a pre-dawn attack on Naga villages in the ethnic conflict-hit Manipur’s Kamjong district on Thursday (May 7, 2026).

Kamjong borders Myanmar. The district headquarters of the same name is about 120 km east of Manipur’s capital, Imphal.

According to an apex body of the Tangkhul Nagas, at least 100 heavily armed men attacked three villages — Choro, Wanglee, and Namlee — located close to the international border, fired indiscriminately, and set 18 houses ablaze.

Two civilians sustained bullet injuries while several others were rounded up at gunpoint and tortured by the armed men, the Working Committee of the Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) said in a statement.

The TNL alleged that the Kuki National Army-Burma, backed by the People’s Defence Force (an anti-junta Myanmar armed group), carried out the coordinated attacks on the three villages.

Civilian areas bombed

“The Tangkhul Naga villages were raided and overrun at about 3.30 a.m. The civilian settlements were also heavily bombed with drones, rocket launchers, and lathode (breach-loading 40 mm) guns, destroying several houses while some were razed to the ground. Moreover, the villagers were looted and fired upon by the Myanmar-based Kuki militants,” the TNL stated.

“The unfortunate incidents occurred just about 200 metres from the 11 Assam Rifles company stationed between Choro and Aloyo,” the TNL said.

The organisation said the external aggression on Indian soil created panic, fear, and insecurity among Indian villagers, rendering them homeless. The villagers were reportedly taking shelter in a jungle, with many others remaining missing.

Local MLA Leishiyo Keishing, who represents the Phungyar constituency, condemned the attacks. Citing the affected villagers, he said the assailants abducted at least two people, including a man, before slipping back into Myanmar.

Assam Rifles criticised

The TNL said the external aggression was shocking, as the border villagers provided food and shelter to hundreds of civilians who sought refuge following a violent resistance movement against the Myanmar military regime.

The Nagas criticised the Assam Rifles, which guards the India-Myanmar border. They alleged that the paramilitary force failed to keep the people and the border safe from external aggression. “The safety and security of the villagers residing along the India-Myanmar border has been blatantly compromised, and the Centre must take immediate action and own responsibility for the strategic security failure,” the TNL said.

Manipur’s population is largely composed of the non-tribal Meiteis, who are the majority in the Imphal Valley, and the tribal Kukis and Nagas, who share the hills. Tangkhul Nagas dominate Kamjong and the adjoining Ukhrul districts.

There have been intermittent conflicts between the Kuki and Tangkhul Nagas in these two districts since the first week of February. The conflict has claimed at least four lives, while dozens of houses have been torched.

Manipur has been burning since May 3, 2023, when the conflict between the Kukis and Meiteis broke out. At least 260 people died, and 62,000 others were displaced in this conflict.

Published – May 07, 2026 05:07 pm IST



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Imphal/New Delhi:

Eleven militants have been arrested in Manipur in the last two days, including seven suspected militants of the Kuki National Army (KNA), the police said on Sunday. The KNA is a signatory to the controversial suspension of operations (SoO) agreement. The suspected KNA militants were arrested from Old Khaukual area in Churachandpur on Friday, the police said.

In another operation on Saturday at Huikap village in Imphal East district, four members of the Meitei militant group Kangleipak Communist Party (People’s War Group), or KCP(PWG), including two women were arrested, the police said. They were found carrying two AK assault rifles, pistols, ammunition, incriminating documents and booklets, the police said.

Following the imposition of President’s Rule with the house in suspended animation (assembly not dissolved), the security forces have been carrying out operations across the state to dismantle bunkers and disarm people from both sides who call themselves village volunteers.

The Kuki tribes are calling for the arrest of Arambai Tenggol chief Korounganba Khuman, alleging he heads a radical Meitei outfit. The Meiteis have pointed back at hundreds of Kuki youths carrying assault rifles under numerous banners of ‘volunteers’, who the Meiteis say are infested with highly trained Kuki militants.

What is clear, however, is civilians from both sides cannot carry weapons like assault rifles under the name of volunteering, police sources said, adding the President’s Rule will ensure all are disarmed.

The frequency of arrests – at least those announced by the police on X (formerly Twitter) – has increased in recent weeks.

The Kuki tribes and the Meiteis have been fighting since May 2023 over a range of issues such as land rights and political representation.

Some 24 Kuki-Zo militant groups come under two umbrella organisations for the purpose of negotiations – the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) led by the KNA, and the United People’s Front (UPF) led by the Zomi Revolutionary Army. The KNO and the UPF representing all the others have signed the SoO agreement with the Centre and the Manipur government. Under this agreement, the militants are to stay at designated camps and their weapons kept in locked storage, to be monitored regularly.

The state government has been demanding to end the SoO agreement over allegations that SoO-linked militants have been taking part in the Manipur violence, as also militants from several banned Meitei groups that had nearly been eradicated from Manipur in the last 10 years, only to return from their hideouts in neighbouring Myanmar after the breakout of ethnic clashes in May 2023.

The SoO agreement is reviewed by a joint monitoring group every year; its last review was in February 2024, but little is known about the current status of the agreement.

The KCP – before several versions of it mushroomed – is among the eight Meitei militant groups in the Home Ministry’s list of banned organisations.

The KCP(PWG) is likely being used as “hired guns” to attack civilians and carry out extortion in the valley areas to keep tension simmering, state intelligence sources had told NDTV in December 2024 based on early investigation. They declined to say who hired these militants to create terror in the valley areas, citing the investigation was at an early stage.

The security forces will intensify operations to disarm people from both the warring communities and dismantle all illegal fortifications, the police said.






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