UDWJA fact-finding team exposes alleged cross-border militant assault, border security failure in Kamjong

Special Correspondent
Ukhrul/Kamjong, May 11:
A fact-finding mission conducted by the Ukhrul District Working Journalists’ Association (UDWJA) has uncovered disturbing evidence pointing to an alleged coordinated cross-border militant assault from Myanmar that devastated three Naga villages in Kamjong district and exposed serious lapses in border security response along the Indo-Myanmar frontier.
The UDWJA team visited Namlee, Wanglee and Z. Choro villages on May 8, a day after heavily armed militants allegedly crossed the international border and launched simultaneous attacks on the frontier settlements during the early hours of May 7.
According to villagers and survivors, the attack began around 4 am when large numbers of armed militants entered from the Myanmar side and surrounded the villages before opening heavy gunfire from multiple directions. Explosives and bomb attacks were also reportedly used during the assault, forcing terrified residents to flee into forests and nearby hills.
By sunrise, at least 22 houses and shops had been reduced to ashes. Several vehicles were destroyed, valuables looted and many families displaced.
A woman survivor who spoke to the UDWJA team recounted that armed militants entered her house before forcing her and her husband to a nearby church.
“They said they came to take revenge for their comrades,” she stated, adding that the attackers identified themselves as members of KNA-B and carried sophisticated weapons.
“My house was burned before my eyes. I could save only my Bible and the clothes I was wearing,” she said.
Eno Phungreing Ansari alleged that the attackers infiltrated from across the Myanmar border and carried out coordinated assaults using firearms and explosives.
Villagers further alleged that militants looted vehicles, fuel, electronic items, cash and motorcycles before retreating back toward Myanmar.
The most serious concern raised during the fact-finding mission was the alleged absence of timely security response despite hours of firing.
Residents stated that an Assam Rifles post at Aloyo is located only a few minutes away from Choro village, yet no security personnel reportedly arrived while the attack continued from around 4 am till nearly 7 am.
Kamjong Police confirmed that a suo motu FIR had been registered, stating that armed militants suspected to be KNA-B cadres crossed the Indo-Myanmar border and carried out attacks using sophisticated weapons, explosives and drone-based bomb drops.
The findings of the UDWJA team have intensified demands for an independent investigation into what villagers described as an act of “foreign aggression” carried out on Indian soil.
The incident has also raised serious questions over border surveillance, intelligence failure and the vulnerability of remote frontier villages along the Indo-Myanmar border.