NE militants revive links with neighbour countries

Under pressure following Army crackdown, North-East militant groups are "going all out to revive their links with India’s immediate neighbours", official sources said. National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) has been trying to revive its "China link", the sources say. 

Official sources in New Delhi said, NSCN(IM) leader Thuingaleng Muivah had been trying to strike arms deal with his "old contacts," which Naga militant leaders merely described as "plain business deal." 
The sources suggest a tacit understanding has emerged between NSCN(IM) and the military regime in Myanmar indicating that any such development could not really come without "help from the northern neighbour" of Yangon.
But the Government of India, keen to improve ties with China, seems not inclined for now to confront Beijing on this issue. A senior government official in New Delhi merely said reports of understanding between militant groups and China could be "speculative."  "We have no such report." 

Muivah was the main figure to set up NSCN’s China link when he had gone to Yunan province way back in sixties and had "successfully enlisted" Beijing’s help in floating the outfit once he decided to part ways with the Naga National Council (NNC). 

However, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is "unnerved" with Bhutan Government’s decision to bust the militant camps in the Himalayan kingdom.

The 78th session of Bhutan Parliament earlier this year had decided to "take steps" against ULFA camps including the ULFA’s Central Training Institute at Deothang and the 709 Battalion at Kalikhola, Assam Government sources said. Security around the ULFA strongholds has been beefed up and there is already "some sort of joint exercise."