NSCN-China nexus worries MHA
The home ministry is extremely worried over the growing nexus of NSCN(I-M) leaders with China.
Disclosing that growing attention of China towards north-east insurgent group has come to focus once again after the detention of a Chinese woman Wang Qing, the authoritative security sources told this newspaper that she confessed her association with Chinese intelligence agency People’s Security Bureau.
The 39-year-old woman, Wang Qing, who was detained on January 18 in Dimapur after she visited the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) military headquarters at Camp Hebron, revealed that her visit to NSCN (I-M) camp in Nagaland was aimed at to assess their strength on the ground. The Chinese agency had assigned her the task to assess independently the claims of the NSCN (I-M) of having strong support base in Nagaland.
Wang was not arrested but deported within three days of her capture, the security sources said, adding that this was her third visit to Nagaland.
However, it was not for the first time that Naga leaders’ Chinese connection has come to light. The NSCN-IM had close contact with Beijing since the days of Mao Zedong. The relations had weakened during Deng Xiaoping’s tenure, security sources pointed out adding that it has been revived again. More particularly since Dhaka has decided to go all out against the terror networks operating from Bangladesh. Security sources also informed that China has intensified its activities in the Northeast soon after Dhaka launched a crack down against the north-east insurgent groups operating from their soil.
Clarifying that China has always been helping and abetting the north-east insurgent group discreetly, security sources said that recent developments on insurgency fronts, which has engaged majority of the separatist groups of the region for the peace-talks, might have provoked China for a more pro-active role so that armed movements continue to rock the region.
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