Myanmar authorities have asked the administration in Mizoram to send back eight policemen, who crossed over to the state seeking refuge, PT...
Myanmar authorities have asked the administration in Mizoram to send back eight policemen, who crossed over to the state seeking refuge, PTI reported on Saturday. The police officers reportedly entered India to escape taking orders from the leaders in Myanmar, which has been witnessing widespread protests after a military coup last month.
Deputy commissioner of Mizoram’s Champai district Maria CT Zuali has received a letter “from the deputy commissioner of Falam district in Myanmar seeking the detainment and handover of eight police personnel to Naypyitaw as a friendly gesture”.
The letter said that eight Myanmar police officials have escaped to India. “In order to uphold friendly relations between the two neighbouring countries, you are kindly requested to detain eight Myanmar police personnel who had arrived in Indian territories and handover to Myanmar,” the letter said.
Zuali said she was awaiting instructions from the Ministry of Home Affairs, reported BBC.
A top official of the state’s home department had on Friday said that 16 people from Myanmar crossed over to India over the last few days, of which 11 claimed they were police personnel, according to the news agency. Unidentified officials of the Assam Rifles, which guards the Mizoram-Myanmar border, said about 35 Myanmarese have crossed over to India.
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