Home Ministry report says Increasing seizures of Chinese weapons in Northeast India points to a greater flow of illegal arms impacting adversely on regional stability. The statement adds that such weapons are also being pushed some are even assembled into Myanmar gives an additional cause for worry because many troubled areas of the neighbouring country border on Northeast. 

As many as 423 illegal weapons, including AK-47s, M-16s, Chinese pistols and Lathodes, have been recovered so far this year in various states of Northeast. “Prominent insurgent groups, especially those from Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram, maintain regular contact with Chinese intelligence agencies and have benefited from Chinese largesse and weapons,” says the report compiled by the Intelligence Bureau. The IB report highlights the danger behind the weapons push including training of insurgent groups in the northeast, provisioning of arms and ammunition and harbouring exiled militants and leaders have been recurrent facets of China’s ‘diplo-terrorism’ against India since the 1960s. 

The recent bulk seizures notifies the trend is now growing. Earlier this year the ammunition were seized from the Monakhali beach near the coastal junction of Myanmar and Bangladesh. From there, the consignment reached the Arakan Army Camp near Thanchi in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) on way to Rakhine through jungles below the Parva corridor in South Mizoram will be used by Arakan Army to fight against Myanmar army. Not merely the Arakan Army or ARSA’s Rohingya militants,  but also groups like NSCN(I-M) can use these weapons. the report also cities possibility of the Maoist underground in eastern and central India to utilize these routed weapons. 

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