Not less than three Myanmar cops have crossed into India to flee taking orders from the navy junta that’s attempting to suppress the protests in opposition to final month’s coup, and brought refuge in Mizoram, a high official mentioned.
The three policemen, who’ve crossed the porous border, have been sheltered close to Lungkawlh in Serchhip district of Mizoram, a high Mizoram House division official mentioned on situation of anonymity.
“They’ve fled as they can’t comply to the orders given by the junta. They’re at the moment staying at a Group corridor Lungkawlh village, Serchhip district the place they’re supplied meals and clear ingesting water. Their identities and state of affairs have been forwarded to the centre,” the official added.
There have been a number of media experiences and social media posts of situations of the police becoming a member of the civil disobedience motion and protests in opposition to the junta. Nonetheless, that is maybe the primary reported case of police fleeing Myanmar.
The official mentioned that none of those officers have formally utilized for asylum however they’ve been sheltered on “humanitarian grounds.”
There are additionally unconfirmed experiences of extra folks from Myanmar coming into Mizoram.
Individuals from Myanmar’s Chin neighborhood and the Mizos belong to the Zo ethnic group they usually share the identical ancestry. Thus, there may be shut bonding.
Mizoram shares a 404 km porous border with Myanmar. The state authorities has alerted all of the border areas on a potential inflow of individuals in search of refuge within the days to return, the official added.
The junta overthrew a democratically-elected authorities, and detained its chief, Aung San Suu Kyi, disputing her celebration’s landslide victory in November.
It made unfounded allegations of widespread fraud in elections and has allegedly detained Ms Suu Kyi since February 1.
Ms Suu Kyi has reportedly been stored underneath home arrest in Naypyidaw, an remoted metropolis that the navy constructed throughout a earlier dictatorship.