New Delhi Takes up Matter of Myanmar Military’s Air Operation Near Border With India

New Delhi: India has taken up with Myanmar the incident of falling of a bomb on Tiau riverbed on the border between the two countries on January 10, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday, January 19.

MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said such incidents are a matter of concern for India, PTI reported.

"As per my information, Myanmar carried out an air operation on January 10-11 near border areas. We confirmed that there was no violation of our airspace. But on January 10, a bomb fell on the Tiau riverbed which is on the India-Myanmar border...It is said that there is a Farkawn village in Champai district," he said.

"Such incidents are a matter of concern for us and we have taken it up with the Myanmar side," Bagchi added.

According to The Irrawaddy, a newspaper which reports on Myanmar, on January 10, a Myanmar Junta airstrike at Mount Victoria, the headquarters of the Chin National Front (CNF) in Chin State on the western border of the country, took the lives of five ethnic Chin resistance fighters, including two women.

CNF was the first rebel group to join the resistance movement against the military coup in 2021. The movement was led by the National Unity Government (NUG) to topple the military regime.

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Since then, the country has seen multiple incidents of fierce fights, leading to civilian and security personnel deaths. More and more people have sought refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh and the Indian state of Mizoram. The Chin National Army, the armed wing of the CNF, has since April 2021 carried out multiple ambushes on Myanmarese army convoys, causing heavy casualties.

The news report said one of the five bombs launched by the Myanmarese army, the Tatmadaw, on January 10 landed on the Indian side, in Mizoram’s Champai district. “The other four bombs hit the CNA’s headquarters close to the frontier with India, killing five resistance fighters,” it said.

A day later, locals also claimed that a bomb from the military operation by Myanmar dropped in Mizoram. However, the Assam Rifles had denied that any explosion took place on the Indian side.

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