As tension simmers in Ladakh, China may look to exploit NE India insurgent groups for intelligence, create fifth column


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One fine morning during the height of the Doklam crisis in 2017, I got a call from a senior ULFA leader (United Liberation Front of Assam). It took me some time to recognise his voice though he had rung me a couple of times since 1998. A journalist friend had helped to establish contact with ULFA leader with the objective to motivate ULFA to give up arms and commence talks with the government. However, I could do little. He spoke to me in my mother tongue Assamese “Are you aware that last night 73 Indian soldiers were killed due to...