🚨How China nurtured NSCN-IM's Terror Empire through a Deep Network of Arms, Finance, Intel and Santuary.
■The end of the 1990s & early 2000s saw a revival of direct NSCN (IM) contacts with China after a period of relative dormancy in the 1980s.
●In 2000, high-ranking NSCN (IM) officials negotiated in Kunming (Yunnan) for fresh weapons assistance. That December, the group received a delivery valued at around USD 750,000 via Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, alongside another by road to the Burmese border town of Tamu.
■In 2019, Indian security agencies recovered Rs. 72 lakhs in cash from Alemla Jamir, the wife of former NSCN-IM Naga Army chief Phunting Shimrang.
Probe agencies later uncovered that the seized amount was linked to a major criminal syndicate that systematically extorted money from businessmen in Nagaland & adjacent states to finance the terror operations of the NSCN-IM.
■Alemla Jamir holds the position of a cabinet minister within the NSCN-IM. Her husband, Phunting Shimrang, had crossed into Yunnan province in China in 2019, accompanied by two other associates.
Phungting Shimrang was a Steering Committee of the NSCN & went to China to talk to the Chinese Government for "aid in their fight against India".
■During her arrest, Alemla Jamir was in possession of materials & documents designed to further fuel Separatist activities in the Northeast. The recovered articles carried unmistakable Chinese origin & footprints.
🚨NSCN-IM leaders Sheltered in China:
Several senior NSCN (IM) leaders have found shelter in China, particularly in Yunnan province, allowing them to maintain operational links with cadres inside India & Myanmar. These include:
1️⃣Hangshi Tangkhul, the self-styled defence minister of NSCN (IM).
NIA filed a charge sheet against him in 2011 for masterminding arms procurement conspiracies in collusion with the Chinese Government.
2️⃣T.R. Calvin, described as the outfit's chief arms procurer.
3️⃣Phunting Shimrang, former Naga Army chief & a senior figure, who crossed over to Yunnan in 2019 along with associates, including Pamshing Muivah (Apam).
■Operating from Yunnan, China, these leaders coordinate with their cadres in India & Myanmar to carry out terror attacks in India.
In one instance, Burmese rebels helped Hanshi Tangkhul broker a USD 1.2 million deal for small arms (rifles, grenades, pistols, launchers & machine guns).
The consignment was to be loaded at China's Beihai port in the Gulf of Tonkin, transferred to fishing trawlers near Cox's Bazar & smuggled into India.
🚨Intelligence Links and High-Level Contacts:
■In January 2011, A Chinese national Wang Qing, posing as a television reporter & working for China's People's Security Bureau (an intelligence agency), was arrested & later deported.
She had entered Nagaland's Dimapur without the mandatory Restricted Area Permit & held a four-hour closed-door meeting with NSCN-IM's supremo Thuingaleng Muivah.
■During his interrogation, Anthony Shimray revealed that Muivah had written a letter to senior Chinese intelligence officers requesting the appointment of Kholose Swu Sumi as the NSCN-IM's permanent representative in China.
Muivah himself had visited China multiple times. Shimray also alleged that, in exchange for Chinese support, the NSCN-IM had provided intelligence on Indian Army deployments along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh, including aircraft & missile positions.
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