Imphal: A hardcore woman militant based in Myanmar’s Chin State was apprehended by a team of Manipur police on October 23, last. The 52-year-old lady, identified as Mya Kyay Mon, daughter of Htunt Nyuntt, was found loitering in a suspicious manner around the Khwairamband Keithel (Market), the Imphal Times, an Imphal-based newspaper reported Sunday quoting sources without revealing the name of the militant group.
The woman who has been kept at the Foreigners Detention Centre, Jajiwa since October 25, had a Norwegian passport which expired on 16 February 2022. She could not produce any valid visas for staying in Manipur, the newspaper further reported.
It said that the lady, Mya Kyay Mon, was earlier detained by a team of 20th Assam Rifles at Khudengthabi Check Post along the Imphal-Moreh Road for travelling without valid documents. But how the lady militant managed to escape from the Assam Rifles troopers and found loitering around at Imphal was yet to be investigated, the IT informed.
The arrest was made at a time when Manipur was reeling under violent ethnic clashes between the Meiteis and Kukis since May 3 this year.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah earlier stated in the Indian Parliament that illegal migrants are the reason for the violence in Manipur. Even Chief Minister N Biren Singh, quoting central security agencies, also stated Myanmar and Bangladesh based militants are involved in the five-month long violence, which has claimed nearly 200 people.
Interestingly, the said lady was taking shelter at the Environment and Economic Management Association (EEMA), an NGO run by one S Radhapiyari. She was actually brought in by Social activist Babloo Loitongbam along with a lady Burmese Language professor of Manipur University in February this year, two months before the violence, the IT reported quoting Radhapiyari, who is also the secretary of the NGO. She denies having any knowledge about the lady’s link with a Kachin-based militant group.
While staying at the Shelter Home, she was visited by some individuals from Churachandpur who came in a Bolero vehicle.
“I had requested Babloo Loitongbam to take away Mya Kyay Mon from the shelter home repeatedly, because of her problematic behaviour and loitering around violating the rules of the Home to which Babloo Loitongbam said her papers are being processed and will be removed from the home soon”, the IT quoted Radhapiyari as saying.
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