Manipur ambush: Lesser-known Naga outfit in focus
The Hindu
Manipur Naga Revolutionary Front was the outcome of a merger of two more obscure groups in 2013
A lesser-known Naga extremist group involved in killing seven, including an Assam Rifles officer his wife and minor son, in an ambush in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Saturday has puzzled the security forces and counter-insurgency specialists.
The Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF) had along with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) claimed responsibility for the attack that killed Colonel Viplap Tripathi and his family.
The PLA had been lying low for about six years until Saturday’s strike but had been around since September 1978 as one of the fiercest of the VBIGs, an abbreviation used by the armed forces to mean groups comprising mostly of fighters from the Meitei community who dominate Manipur’s Imphal Valley.
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