Silchar, August 10 2009: Security along the boundaries Cachar shares with North Cachar and Manipur has been tightened after the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the DHD sent several of its cadres to Manipur last month to receive arms training from the Naga militants.

The superintendent of police, Cachar, Prashanta Bhuyan yesterday said last month, at least 60 rebels of the Hmar People's Convention (Democratic) and the DHD (J) sneaked though the jungle in Cachar via North Cachar Hills on their way to Manipur to receive arms training from the Isak-Muivah faction of the NSCN, an ally of the DHD (J).

Vigilance along the boundaries Cachar shares with North Cachar and Manipur had been stepped up after police got inputs about their movements, the SP said.

The leader of the parent faction of the DHD, Dilip Nunisa, said last month the rival DHD (J) faction had "very clandestinely sent about 30 of their armed cadres to Manipur through the Digli and Rakhalpar areas in Cachar's Jirighat block on the North Cachar boundary on July 30 for training in Ukhrul under the aegis of the Isak-Muivah faction of the NSCN".

He was talking over phone from Guwahati where he is camping at present.

The DHD (J) cadres had sneaked into the adjoining Jiribam subdivision under Imphal East district, Nunisa alleged.

Following Gorlosa's arrest in Bangalore on June 3, the DHD (J) declared a unilateral ceasefire and sent talks fillers.

The government, however, insisted that the outfit first deposited its arms.

The Centre has asked the state government to go all out against the DHD (J) although the outfit had declared a unilateral ceasefire.

Union home minister P.Chidambaram has recently unfolded the new ceasefire policy with ethnic rebels with the rider that the rebels should first lay down arms at a government-run arsenal during the ceasefire period.

The arms, Chidambaram said, would be guarded by security personnel and the rebel outfits.

The DHD (Nunisa) group which is in the ceasefire with the government, however, is opposed to the Centre's policy on arms deposit.

Firmly rejecting the Centre's offer, Nunisa has categorically stated that they could not part with the arms as "these are the essential props to provide us protection when we would come under the raids mounted on us by the rival DHD (J) or the NSCN (I-M)".

He said the arms were kept in Deogbra village near Umrangsu, an industrial town in NC Hills, under vigil by police and security forces along with the militants.

Arms had also been provided to his cadres lodged in designated camps in Dhansiri, Harangajao and Maibong besides Deogbra for their protection, Nunisa said.

He accused the Centre of "procrastination" in solving their prime demand of carving out a Dimaraji state.

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