Imphal, June 17: Forty militants including 39 from the United Liberation Front (Umar Farooque) and one from the Kangleipak Communist Party, surrendered before security forces at Imphal recently.
They arms laid down included, one SLR, two AK-47, four AK-56, two M-16 rifles, one M-20 rifles, four 303 bolt rifles, four 9 mm CM, thirteen 9mm pistol, one pt 22 rev, two 7.65 mm pistol, one pt. 32mm pistol and two hand grenade.
"When people want to lay down their arms and join the mainstream of the society, get to their homes, their villages, we must help them," C A Krishnan, Major General, IGAR South.
The state government's rehabilitation policy is encouraging more and more misguided young men to abjure violence and join the main stream.
During the past one year 166 cadres have laid down arms in IGAR(S) alone, which is in addition to the 122 cadres of the KCP (MC) Lallumba group who signed the tripartite agreement with central and Manipur governments.
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