IMPHAL, June 19: A combined team of Myanmar Army and civil police forcefully dismantled houses within the Indian Territory along Border Pillar no 6 and 7 at Choro Zingshopai area in Kangpat Khullen Ukhrul district.
A highly placed source said that the Manipur government has already submitted a report on the alleged incursion by the Myanmar forces to the joint secretary Home (NE), Ministry of Home Affairs.
The special secretary (Home) Government of Manipur has submitted a report received from the Deputy Commissioner, Ukhrul on the matter requesting to look into the matter for taking necessary appropriate actions, according to reliable sources.
The issue has crept up at a time when the State is facing another boundary issue in Ukhrul district with alleged incursions from the Nagaland side in Dzuko valley.
The report said that the combined force of the Myanmar Army and the Police evicted houses at a newly established village which is about 250 meter into Indian Territory near the border pillars on April 18, even as National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and other PMO officials were in Myanmar on a two-day visit from June 17.
Sources said on April 20, the secretary of Kangpat Khullen and general secretary Raizan Long (a civil organisation of the area) submitted a complaint report on the alleged incursion to the SDO Kamjong under whose jurisdiction the area falls. The SDO on his part had submitted the report to the DC, sources said.
Sources also said that the two in their complaint had stated that villagers of Kangpat Khullen had been taking up some construction work. And on April 18 afternoon, some villagers of Kamjong area had established a new village call Aloyuo (Zingshopai) near border pillar no 6 well within the Indian Territory for which some construction were going on in the area, it said.
However, all of a sudden, a group of Myanmar Army soldiers came into the village and forced the residents to evacuate immediately. The Myanmar soldiers also dismantled all houses and any other structures including a saw mill, the complaint said according to the sources.
In their complaint, they also charged the Myanmar soldiers of carrying away the belongings of the villagers, sources informed.