Indian troops being deployed in Myanmar
Dated 17/5/2006
Printer Friendly
Subscribe
The Myanmarese news website 'Mizzima News' reported that Indian troops have moved into the Indo-Burmese border region of Moreh. India and Myanmar have had a very good military relationship with Myanmar helping India with tackling border insurgencies.
About 50 Indian military trucks believed to be carrying weapons crossed the border into Burma last Thursday, according to eyewitnesses.
"Five trucks full of soldiers followed the 50 trucks," a resident in Moreh said. The backs of the trucks were reportedly covered with plastic sheets. The Burmese embassy in India refused to comment on what the trucks were carrying.
Security was tightened in Moreh, an Indo-Burma border town, from April 24 to 26 in the lead up to a border-trade meeting in Dimapur, Nagaland on April 26.
Analysts suggest that this could be the precursor of Indian military operations against Anti-India insurgents who take refuge on the Burmese side of the border.
