Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 03:
The underground UNLF has refuted the PIB (Defence Wing) that accused the MPA cadres for the January 27 IED blast at Selhao Kuki village in Chakpikarong area of Chandel district.
Terming the PIB claim as false and intended to malign the UNLF, a press statement issued by the outfit's assistant secretary (publicity) central committee secretariat said no explosion had been reported.
If at all the explosion did take place, then it must be near the Indian army camp located at Selhao because the surrounding area of the security camp is heavily mined, countered the statement.
Claiming that Indian security forces had suffered heavy casualties in the past many days at the hands of MPA, it said the Indian Army is resorting to covert methods to malign UNLF so as to drive a wedge between the underground organisation and the relentlessly supporting masses of Manipur.
The Indian security forces are planting anti-personnel mines wherever they are posted at hill areas so that maximum brunt of bomb blast falls on the innocent villages and to frame the UNLF, alleged the assistant secretary.
Observing that such ulterior motives will always boomerang, the UNLF referred to last year's Ningol Chakkouba intentional explosion at the heart of the capital city by security force as another attempt to link revolutionaries to trigger blast at crowded places.