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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), a banned insurgent radical successful the Northeast, has released a video claiming to person carried retired a drone onslaught connected a impermanent basal of an Assam Rifles (AR) portion on the Manipur–Myanmar border.
The 6.56-minute video, released connected Thursday (December 11, 2025), purportedly shows a drone dropping an explosive connected an AR campy successful Tengnoupal territory of Manipur. The incidental is said to person occurred connected November 28, successful which 4 Assam Rifles unit were injured.
After the incident, the Army had said successful a connection that a “patrolling enactment of Assam Rifles was fired upon by terrorists” successful Tengnoupal territory on the India-Myanmar border in the aboriginal hours connected November 28. “The occurrence was instantly retaliated against with caution, keeping successful presumption the civilian safety. The operations are presently underway, with further troops being deployed into the area,” the connection said.
The PLA is simply a Meitei insurgent radical which operates from Myanmar. The outfit, banned since 1979, espouses the secession of Manipur from India.
A elder authorities authoritative stated that the radical is trying to regain its foothold successful the portion with the assistance of specified propaganda videos.
After the September 19 ambush successful Nambol, erstwhile 2 AR unit were killed, information forces launched an intensive cognition against the radical and arrested respective cadres. The PLA besides claimed work for the ambush successful the video.
“After the September 19 incident, respective combing operations were carried out, starring to the apprehension of galore cadres of the outfit. This is an effort to instil fearfulness successful radical and extort money,” said the official.
The Nambol ambush was the archetypal targeted onslaught against cardinal information forces deployed successful Manipur since the May 2023 taste violence. Manipur was placed nether President’s Rule connected February 13.
The onslaught occurred connected NH 2, the way utilized by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to scope Churachandpur territory successful the hills from Imphal airdrome connected September 13, during his archetypal sojourn to the State since the outbreak of taste violence.
The drone utilized successful the November 28 onslaught was rudimentary and locally assembled, the authoritative said. “The drone appears to beryllium commercially procured, and the ammunition is besides not of a precocious grade. It was low-tech instrumentality and could not inflict immoderate damage. All 4 unit are stable, and they received lone shrapnel injuries,” said the official.
The PLA said successful a connection that it was supported by different banned groups specified arsenic NSCN (K-YA) and ULFA (I) and that it carried retired respective attacks connected the Assam Rifles from September 19 to December 10.
The Assam Rifles is the superior border-guarding and counter-insurgency unit deployed on Myanmar border.
