A district court in Myanmar has sentenced 24 Assam and Manipur militants, who were arrested from their hideouts in January by the country’s army in a crackdown against Indian groups, to two years of imprisonment after charging them under the country’s Unlawful Association Act.
The militants sent to jail by the Hkamti district court in Sagaing region of Myanmar belong to the Manipur People’s Army (MPA), United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), People’s Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) and People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak. Read More…
