OPINION

Battleground Burma

By NADÈGE ROLLAND

Beijing may be leveraging military contacts with rebel groups to engage in a proxy war with India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently sent his country’s special forces into Burma to attack two militant camps, in retaliation for a series of deadly ambushes on Indian soil.

Given reports that the militants’ activities have been secretly supported by Beijing, we may be witnessing not just an Indian antiterrorism campaign but the start of a proxy war between India and China.

The violence began when a splinter group of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, a militant Christian organization that seeks a sovereign state for the Naga people of India and Burma, launched several attacks on Indian security forces in northeast India. One of these operations left eight members of India’s Assam Rifles paramilitary force dead in early May. A month later, 18 Indian soldiers were killed and 15 injured in an attack in India’s Manipur state.

New Delhi’s ensuing pursuit of this splinter group, known as the NSCN-K, was swift and deadly. The Indian army followed NSCN-K into Burma and carried out what it calls pre-emptive raids based on “credible and specific intelligence” about plans for further attacks on Indian territory. Initial reports indicate the two militant camps suffered significant casualties.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/battleground-burma-1435071487

So the reporter has no information on how the Myanmar government is reacting or responding to all this. Wonderful reporting.

One would suppose from this article they are just spectators...watching and taking bets.

For once an article about some other religion besides Islam wanting their own state ! Wow !