One shell landed on the Indian side. According to a Champhai district official, there were no casualties, although a vehicle on a river bank near the border was destroyed.
The Myanmar military’s bombing of a key rebel camp near Mizoram’s border on Tuesday has caused dread and panic in the state’s Champhai region.
One shell landed on the Indian side. According to a Champhai district official, there were no casualties. Although a vehicle on a river bank near the border was destroyed.
The air attacks highlight:
The air attacks highlighted the region’s insecurity as a result of Myanmar’s almost two-year-old coup. Similar airstrikes in other sections of Myanmar have sparked tensions with Bangladesh and Thailand.
The Myanmar military launched air strikes on Camp Victoria in Chin State late Tuesday, and it continued into the night. The Chin Human Rights Organisation said five of its cadres, two of them women, were killed in the strikes. There were raids on Wednesday as well.
Camp Victoria is the headquarters of the Chin National Army (CNA), an ethnic armed organisation in Chin State. The militia was long dormant but since the February 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar. It has joined hands with pro-democracy civilian militias in the fight against the junta.
Residents of Mizoram’s Farkawn village, within 2 to 5 km of Camp Victoria, panicked when they heard sounds of the bombing. People working on the Indian side of the river Tiau, which demarcates the international boundary, fled to their homes in the village.
There has been no official reaction from India. Indian military sources said the bomb fell into the river, and that they had verified this on the ground.
Residents of Farkawn saw Assam Rifles personnel inspecting the area. Local activists said the shell landed 30 meters from the river bank on the Indian side. “People are in a state of shock and fear,” stated a Farkawn resident.
A Mizoram government official based in the Champhai district. Which includes Farkawn, claimed the attacks damaged a state-registered vehicle on the Indian side of the border.