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The Great Claw of China
The confessions of NSCN(IM) leader Anthony Shimray show exactly how China is
fuelling India’s northeastern insurgencies
Saikat Datta
Wooing NSCN (IM)
*China agrees to host a permanent representative of the NSCN (IM) from 2008
*The outfit is asked to spy on Indian troops in Arunachal Pradesh and the
Dalai Lama
*Pakistan’s ISI also contacts NSCN (IM) and asks it to break the ceasefire
with India
*NSCN (IM)’s firepower grows significantly during the ceasefire with India
that began in 1995
For decades, India and China have played a cat-and-mouse game, full of
intrigue and suspense. Even while New Delhi is trying to find ways around
vexatious border issues or making occasional noises about stapled visas,
Beijing has been secretly supporting, advising and arming major insurgent
outfits in India’s troubled Northeast and the Maoist belt. Unlike the noise
and heat the Indo-Pak relationship generates, Indian diplomats maintain a
studied silence when it comes to the Chinese hand in the Northeast or arms
from across the border reaching Maoists in central India.
In the last three months, however, the Chinese hand in the Northeast has
been revealed in great detail. In the early hours of October 2 last year,
Indian intelligence officials, along with their counterparts in the National
Investigation Agency, accosted a tall, hefty man waiting outside the Patna
railway station. The quarry was Anthony Shimray, a key official of the
National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) faction or NSCN(IM), the
biggest insurgent outfit in the Northeast. Not only is Shimray a powerful
member of the NSCN(IM)’s top leadership, he is also the nephew of its
general secretary, T. Muivah, currently in New Delhi for peace talks with
the Centre. As the chief arms procurer for the outfit, Shimray also has
first-hand information on Chinese efforts to support insurgencies.
Shimray: Tailed and Nabbed
Shimray’s early morning arrest was the culmination of a meticulous
operation conducted by India’s external intelligence agency RAW in the
preceding weeks. They had managed to track down Shimray in the middle of
September. He was operating out of Bangkok, a haven for arms dealers,
insurgents and intelligence agencies. It was to be a tricky call: Shimray
could not be nabbed in a foreign land, and there was considerable debate
within the government on picking him up since this was in the midst of a
dialogue with NSCN(IM). Finally, with clearance, intelligence officials had
a stroke of luck.
By the end of September, the sleuths had gathered from their sources that
Shimray would need to travel from Thailand to get his visa renewed and visit
his cadres in Manipur and Nagaland. Quietly, they managed to procure his
travel details to Nepal and began to monitor his exit from Bangkok. Shimray
took a Royal Nepal Airlines flight to Kathmandu in the early hours of
September 27 and proceeded by road to quietly slip across the Indian border
into Bihar. From here, he was to proceed by rail to the Northeast but he was
arrested before that.
His subsequent interrogation has been detailed in a 100-page report,
accessed exclusively by Outlook. It throws up several startling truths about
the Chinese hand in Indian insurgencies. While Shimray speaks at length
about NSCN(IM), he also reveals China’s links with ULFA and the National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam and the United National
Liberation Front in Manipur. Here are Shimray’s key revelations:
Chinese Arms for the Northeast
Even as recently as September 25, 2010, Shimray was procuring arms and had
held further talks with his middleman in Bangkok, Willy Narue. One
consignment being negotiated was for Arunachal Pradesh. He even asked the
suppliers if they could deliver in the “upper part of Arunachal from the
Chinese side”. Investigators feel Shimray’s covert October trip to India
may have been tied to the arms deals.
Shimray also told his interrogators how he procured arms from the Chinese in
late 2007. “It was decided by our leadership stationed in New Delhi to
strengthen the weaponry of the organisation,” he reveals. With Narue’s
help, he contacted Yuthuna, a Chinese representative of TCL in Bangkok, TCL
being the “authorised subsidiary of the Chinese arms company China
Xinshidai, Beijing”. On its website, Xinshidai is described as dealing in
the import and export of specialised products by China’s defence industries.
The final shopping list included 600 AK series rifles, nearly 6 lakh
ammunition rounds, 200 sub-machine guns, pistols, rocket launchers, light
machine guns and 200 kg of RDX. The deal was worth $1.2 million, with an
additional $1 million for shipment from China. The consignment was sent
through a shipping agent in Kittichai of Bangkok-based Intermarine Shipping.
It was to be “loaded from Beihei, a south Chinese port. The destination
was Cox’s Bazaar”, a major landing station on the Bangladesh coast. “All
the correspondence with Willy Narue, our leadership in New Delhi, Nagaland
and others in Thailand and China,” Shimray says, “was made on e-mail to
maintain the secrecy of the entire project.” The information was saved as a
draft and accessed by Chinese intelligence using Shimray’s password.
Shimray also recalled his visit to China in 1994 for a joint arms deal for
NDFB. The “procurement of the arms and ammunition” was “made from the
Chinese company NORINCO”. This consignment included “1,800 pieces of arms
and one lakh rounds, which included AK series rifles, M16 automatic assault
rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers and pistols”. The
money came from a Naga businessman using Calcutta-based hawala operators.
Again, in 1996, “arms and ammunition were brought from Beijing to Cox’s
Bazaar in a North Korean ship”. After the consignment was unloaded in small
boats on the high seas and transferred in trucks to NSCN(IM) camps in
Bangladesh, it travelled to the Northeast.
China Hosts Permanent Representative of NSCN(IM)
In another significant revelation, Shimray details how China’s relationship
with the NSCN(IM) was strengthened in 2008 when it agreed to host their
permanent representative. The year also seems to have been a watershed
moment in the NSCN(IM)’s relationship with China and its renewed efforts to
arm itself. And ironically, in the midst of a 15-year-dialogue it has been
having with New Delhi.
According to Shimray, in a letter from ‘Prime Minister’ Muivah addressed
to senior Chinese intelligence officials, Kholose Swu Sumi, a 60-year-old
member of the Sema tribe in the Zunheboto district of Nagaland, was
appointed as the permanent representative of the NSCN(IM) in China. Kholose
’s acceptance by the Chinese was an official acknowledgement of a formal
relationship with the NSCN(IM). Kholose was promoted to the rank of a
colonel and asked to interface with the Chinese. “His main job was to
update the Chinese authorities about the development of peace talks and the
activities of the Indian army and to pass on the response of the Chinese
authorities to the collective leadership of NSCN(IM),” says the
interrogation report recording Shimray’s confessions.
Kholose, who ran a business in precious stones, received Shimray and his
wife at Kunming airport (Yunnan province, southeastern China) on a visit and
introduced him to several Chinese intelligence officials. “He introduced
me to Mr Chang, head of intelligence of the region in Dehong Mangshi,”
Shimray told his interrogators. “Mr Lee Wuen, head of intelligence of
Yunnan province, was also introduced to me. I gave them the message of our
leadership, that NSCN(IM) wanted their assistance and cooperation.”
Forging Military Cooperation and Spying on India
Shimray also talks of a visit to China in the summer of 2009. This time, he
accompanied his ‘President’, Isak Chisi Swu. “The visa for the visit,”
says Shimray, “was arranged by the Chinese intelligence authorities at the
Chinese embassy in the Philippines.” The trip helped the NSCN(IM)
leadership forge “military cooperation” with the Chinese. But, “in lieu
of extending military cooperation,” says Shimray, the NSCN(IM) was to “
give information on the movement and activities of the Dalai Lama in India
and the movement and facilities of (the) Indian army in Arunachal Pradesh”.
NSCN(IM) cadres in the border district of Tirap in Arunachal Pradesh began
to immediately monitor Indian troop movements. Shimray contacted a Naga
journalist in Delhi, paid her Rs 80,000, and persuaded her to travel to
Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Dalai Lama, to gather intelligence. “
For getting information on the movements and activities of the army in
Arunachal Pradesh, we collected the information through our cadres in Tirap
district and our New Delhi office,” Shimray told the investigators. “I
passed on this information to an official of the Chinese intelligence agency
.”
In his reports to Chinese intelligence, Shimray would use code words such as
“Awo” to designate China and “Mayang” for India. He also conveyed the
information using the e-mail id angel3phi@ yahoo.com, which would be
accessed by a Chinese intelligence officer using the same password. While
Shimray was in constant touch with the Chinese, other senior NSCN leaders
such as ‘deputy minister’ Kehoi too were making contacts with Chinese
authorities. In addition, NSCN(IM) commander-in-chief V.S. Atem also had
some Chinese contacts.
Interestingly, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested three Chinese citizens in
January who had illegally crossed into India and were found photographing
border check-posts. In the same month, a 39-year-old Chinese woman, Wang
Qing, was arrested and deported after she illegally travelled to Nagaland
and also met Muivah. She was reported to be from the People’s Security
Bureau, the Chinese intelligence agency.
ISI Links
In a subsequent interrogation, Shimray also gives interesting insights into
his relationship with Pakistan’s ISI which tried to engage with the
northeastern insurgents on several occasions. The NSCN(IM) leadership was
received by “the Pakistani intelligence officials” in Karachi way back in
2001 even as the NSCN(IM) was negotiating peace with New Delhi. In 2008, an
ISI agent working under the pseudonym of “Mr Rex” and stationed in
Bangladesh visited the NSCN(IM) leadership in Bangkok and offered “
financial help as well as military training” if the Nagas broke the
ceasefire with India.
It is, however, the China factor that continues to be a major irritant for
New Delhi even as peace talks continue with the Nagas. It has already
expressed its displeasure at China’s stapled visas to Kashmiris and
Arunachalis, its denial of a visa to an Indian army general and its efforts
to arm and support the insurgency in the Northeast. The balance of power
between the elephant and the dragon, it seems, will continue to oscillate
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: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?270223
: The Great Claw of China
: The confessions of NSCN(IM) leader Anthony Shimray show exactly how China is
: fuelling India’s northeastern insurgencies
: Saikat Datta
: Wooing NSCN (IM)
: *China agrees to host a permanent representative of the NSCN (IM) from 2008
: *The outfit is asked to spy on Indian troops in Arunachal Pradesh and the
: Dalai Lama
: *Pakistan’s ISI also contacts NSCN (IM) and asks it to break the ceasefire
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