* Burmese minister to attend Indo-ASEAN car rally
inauguration
* A drug adductor woman car crash killed one
* (Opinion) Making a Burmese connection in the
Northeast
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Burmese minister to
attend Indo-ASEAN car rally inauguration
Navatha Kuria/Mizzima
News
At least one minister from
ceremony of Indo-Asean car rally in Guwahati on
November 22, informed
The ceremony to be taken place at Nehru Stadium in
also be attended by ministers from
Commissioners from
names of those guests were still
not disclosed.
The rally, first in Northeast will
include around 70 cars (including
25 official entrants) which
would pass though Morigaon, Nagaon,
Numaligarh (in
(in Manipur) to cross to
will cross
at Batam
in
Meanwhile, brisk preparations are going in Guwahati city for the
rally amidst the threat from All
Assam Students Union to protest. The
regional political party Asom Gana Parishad
has also extended moral
support to the student body for its
action.
Moreover, Bharatia Janata Party Assam unit has also decided to express
resentment against the prime
minister Dr Singh during his visit to
Speaking to the reporters both the presidents of BJP Assam
unit and
AGP (Mr Indra
Moni Bora and Brindavan Goswami respectively)
expressed
anger that Dr Singh did not find
time while the state was facing
severe flood, but now he had coming
to inaugurate a car rally.
Following the threat from the students body to disrupt the
rally not
only in Guwahati
but the entire state, the authority has beefed up
arrangement Meanwhile top officials
of Special Protection Group and
Prime Minister Office have arrived
in
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A drug adductor woman
car crash killed one
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Independent Mon News Agency
A drug addict woman, who brother killed by Thai police in
Three Pagoda
Pass while he try to import
amphetamine to
speech driven crashed to three
motorbike on the crowd road killed one
person and two serious wounded
according to victims family.
Killed amphetamine trafficker, Mr.Wing
Naing sister, Mrs. Kyuu Khaning
with her young baby drove car in to
the crowded people road that
people going to festival at about
witness.
Mr.Ko Soe
Naing, who was crashed first died in the Kanchanaburi
hospital after the crash about
fours hours and Mr. Naing Woo been
taking treatment in Kanchanaburi hospital with serious injured in his
legs. Mr. Ko Noung got a small wonded according to the victims
families.
Her car crashed the killed victim, Mr. Ko Soe Naing
first and other
two motorbike later, a witness
said. “Her diving speech so high, it
must be about 90 Kilometer a hours
speech and she was drunk with
amphetamine,” some witness claimed.
“After the crash she did not stop her car, she continued
drove in to
the crowd with some damage in her
car and some smoke fly out from her
car,” a witness said.
“According witness told me, she drove a Kilometer far from
where the
crash happened and she stopped the
car run out for escape. But people
stopped the fire on her car that
fire from the damage,” a reporter Min
Thit Swe said.
“Now the women went to the police station by herself for her
crash and
for facing court,” Min Thit Swe added.
After the crash, the people brought the victim to the Three
Pagoda
Pass hospital for treatment. But the victims relation claimed,
they
did not unsatisfied with in charge
of doctor Dr.Soe Win for did no
treatment to the injured patient.
“They had brought the victims by their arrangement. No help
gave by
the doctor the victims relation,”
said a victim relation who do not
want identify his name for his
security.
According to Min Thit Swe
reported, Mrs. Kyuu Khaing
was linked with
amphetamine seller, and she was an
amphetamine adductor.
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(Opinion) Making a
Burmese connection in the Northeast
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By Nava Thakuria
The Army operation against India’s
Northeastern insurgents, which
has been carried out for the last
few decades, hardly makes a
headline, as it is a regular
practice for the security personnel
deployed, but it makes sensational
news if the operation can be
reported as being carried out
jointly with soldiers of neighboring
countries such as
Readers of a section of dailies from Guwahati
were astonished Nov. 6
to read a banner headline saying
the Indian Army had launched a
massive crackdown on militants in
Manipur, and Burmese soldiers sealed
their border to prevent fleeing
militants from sneaking across..
The illustrated news went on to narrate the immediate
casualties of 13
insurgents in the offensive,
whereas over 34 armed cadres were
arrested. The origin of the news,
as reported by four international
news agencies in English said “at least 13 rebels were killed and 34
captured by Indian soldiers” in Friday’s (Nov.
5) military
crackdown. Quoting an Indian Army
spokesman (Major S.D. Goswami ) the
reports revealed that around 6,000
Army personnel had surrounded bases
of militants in Bishnpur
and the Churachandpur districts of Manipur.
“We
have nabbed 34 militants and seized 20 sophisticated weapons so
far during the operation.”
Another quote reveled that it was “an
offensive entirely by the Indian
army with Burmese soldiers simply
guarding their own frontiers on the
other side," the news quoted
Goswami.
But surprisingly enough, the incident was not reported by
appointed
and recognized correspondents of
the dailies based in Imphal or
Guwahati. It was filed exclusively by a section of international
news
agencies with their correspondents
in Guwahati and Kolkata.
An agency (BBC News,
Indian army says it is conducting a major operation against
rebel
bases in the north-east of the
country.
prevent militants crossing into its
territory from the Indian state of
Manipur, where the offensive is focused.”
The report added, “A
spokesman for the army said it had
surrounded 1,500 fighters belonging
to three different rebel groups. He
said
along its side of the border to
prevent the rebels from escaping.”
Similarly another report (filed by a Guwahati
based IANS
correspondent) quoted Army
spokesman Goswami adding, “The
militants
are getting choked from all sides
with our soldiers zeroing in on
their bases in Manipur and across
the border you have troops from
territory.
Until Nov. 7, it was fine. Readers in the Northeast believed
only a
few newspapers had the credit to
carry the exclusive news. Naturally
they were waiting for detailed followup stories the next day. But
suddenly the army operation lost
prominent space in regional dailies.
Imphal, the Manipur capital, hosts
news correspondents representing
various regional and national
newspapers (and news agencies).
But it was surprising how the Imphal-based
reporters could afford to
miss the important news, where Burmese
soldiers were involved in the
operation.
However, on Nov. 8, a national agency (PTI) report from Imphal
clarified that the Army denied any
joint operation with Burmese
soldiers in Manipur. The same
spokesman Goswami was quoted as saying
security forces had been carrying
out counter-insurgency operations as
a "normal duty". The
report quoted Goswami saying, “Security
forces
had been carrying out
counter-insurgency operations in several areas
of Manipur as a normal duty and at
least 13 militants had been killed,
34 ultras apprehended and 20 weapons recovered since September.” He
added that the Indian Army “was not aware whether Burmese troops had
been carrying out a similar
operation on their side.
Even speaking to reporters in
Minister Pranab Mukherjee disclosed that
holding consultations on taking
coordinated action against
Northeastern militants along the 1,400 KM border on the
Eastern front.
While praising the Royal Bhutan Government for their
offensive against
insurgents last December, Mukherjee was still expecting ''similar
supportive cooperation from
friendly countries to root out
terrorism”.
It is evident that the Indian Army has carried out an
important
operation against insurgents in
Manipur with the help of state police.
Director General of Manipur Police A.K. Parashar
also acknowledged
that a joint operation with Army
personnel was being carried out, but
he too denied involvement of
Burmese soldiers in the crackdown.
“There
is no report of any such joint operation so far on
Manipur’s soil,” he said.
It can be guessed that those agency reporters intentionally
present
the news of the “joint
counter-insurgency operations” by the Army
and state police as being carried
out by the Indian Army with the help
of Burmese soldiers to make it
lucrative. Now the question arises;
what was the use of making news
with distorted facts? Was it the Army
source (Major S.D. Goswami), who misguided the agency reporters and
later denied to save his skin; or
the intention of those agency
reporters, who went on misguiding
the readers with the obligatory
reports from the Northeast?
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