A paramilitary soldier stands guard close to the bridge on Tiau river alongside the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram. File picture
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: The Mizoram police on March 25 recovered charred our bodies of the three residents of the State’s Siaha district, who went lacking since March 19, from Myanmar.
The three, together with a girl, had gone lacking after setting out for Myanmar from Ainak, a border village in southern Mizoram’s Siaha district, on March 19.
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People on both facet of the 1,643-km India-Myanmar border can transfer freely inside a 32-km band – 16 km on both facet of the road dividing the 2 international locations – regardless of sure restrictions owing to the civil struggle in Myanmar. Mizoram shares a 510 km border with Myanmar.
“The charred bodies of the three person, apparently held hostage by miscreants across the border, were recovered from a jungle,” Mizoram’s Inspector-General of Police (Law and Order), Lalbiakthanga Khiangte informed The Hindu on March 25.
He didn’t make clear if the Indian authorities went to Mizoram to recuperate the three our bodies or Myanmar locals helped to ship them on the worldwide border.
Extremist group behind killings?
Local police officers mentioned the three Ainak villagers might have been killed for failing to return cash owed to arms smugglers, previously with an extremist group energetic on both facet of the border.
The villagers claimed that they had returned the cash however the miscreants needed to extract extra from them.
The Mara Thyutlia Pi, an apex girls’s physique of the Mara neighborhood in Siaha, condemned the killing of the three villagers. It demanded bringing the killers to e book.
Some 40,000 Myanmar nationals, principally belonging to the Chin neighborhood ethnically associated to the Mizos of Mizoram, have taken refuge in Mizoram since a army coup in that nation in February 2021. The refugees proceed to trickle in as a result of ongoing civil struggle between the armed forces and pro-democracy teams continues.
