Maoist Insurgency: Incidents and Statements involving
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) : 2011

The special cell of the Delhi Police arrested an active cadre of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), who was hiding in the capital, it was announced on January 29, reports Imphal Free Press. The militant has been identified as Oinam Ibomcha Singh (28), was popularly known among the PLA cadre as 'Japan'. He was hiding in Delhi to evade arrest in Manipur. Read less...

Nagaland postreports that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)is worried over the growing nexus of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)leaders with Northeast militant groups as a huge of cache of sophisticated weapons in possession of Northeast insurgent groups, particularly theUnited Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), is feared to have been finding route to Maoists in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar. Disclosing that Maoists are enhancing their striking power by adding sophisticated weapons like AK-47, SLR and mortars in their arsenal to combat government offensives, security sources in the MHA told Asian Age that Maoist military strategist Kishenji’s inclination towards the Northeast insurgent group was aimed at procuring sophisticated weapons available in abundant quantity with Northeast insurgent groups. Read less...

The Times of India reports that a plan by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leaders to use its connections with Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) of Manipur to get sanctuary in Myanmar has come to naught because of reservations of the insurgent leaders from the northeast, according to an Imphal-based defence source. PLA militants in Manipur have revealed this to Security Forces (SFs), he says. According to the source, Maoist leaders had requested PLA to arrange this shelter in the middle of 2011, soon after they started feeling the heat of stepped-up pressure of joint operations against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand as well as West Bengal. Leaders of National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Khaplang (NSCN-K) did not favour this idea. NSCN-K leaders have reasoned that the presence of Maoists in Myanmar would be revealed in no time because the features of CPI-Maoist members would not match with that of members of northeastern rebel groups taking shelter there. Read less...