NDTV Exclusive: How Special Forces Took Out Terror Camp in Myanmar

[Jonathan Fairfield]

NDTV Exclusive: How Special Forces Took Out Terror Camp in Myanmar

NEW DELHI: For hours, the team of more than 20 Indian soldiers waited, in territory belonging to another country.

Their orders - to engage and destroy camps just across the border with Myanmar set up by the insurgent National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang).

The details of how a small group of highly-trained commandos from the Indian Army located and killed separatist rebels fighting for secession have been kept largely classified so far. NDTV has now accessed how the operation unfolded on June 9.

Commandos from the 21 Special Forces battalion, highly skilled in covert and jungle warfare operations in the Northeast, observed enemy movement, and picked their targets carefully. They had entered the thickly forested area by 11 pm on June 8, crossing into Myanmar on foot.

By 4:45 am on June 9, not too long before sunrise, it was time to strike.

The man in charge of this covert squad was a young Lieutenant Colonel (names cannot be revealed for security reasons). He would lead from the front. Next in line, a paratrooper he described as his "buddy", a havildar or senior jawan and another paratrooper from the havildar's team.

All four men had trained for years in fighting in the thick jungles of the northeast in oppressive heat and humidity. They were among the finest the Indian Army could have picked for such an operation - experienced, motivated and exceptionally skilled in the dark craft of killing enemies of the state, if necessary, behind enemy lines.

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NDTV 2015.09.17

[oldsailor35]

MMMM ! looks as though the Indian Col did it all himself. I suppose the troops just watched on.........lolololol