{"id":198318,"date":"2022-08-20T00:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=198318"},"modified":"2022-08-20T00:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:42:47","slug":"8-kuki-tribal-union-militants-surrender-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/20\/8-kuki-tribal-union-militants-surrender-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Kuki Tribal Union militants surrender in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haflong (Assam), Aug 19 (PTI) Eight militants of the Kuki Tribal Union (KTU), including members of its armed wing&#8217;, surrendered before security forces in Assam&#8217;s Dima Hasao district on Friday, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The militants surrendered at the 11 Assam Rifles base camp at Sarkari Bagan area of the town, in presence of top security officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group is mainly active in the Kuki-dominated area of Nagaland and Manipur, and Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong in Assam, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official added that the group had recently started extortion activities in the form of taxes .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven of the cadres hail from Karbi Anglong district, while one is from Dima Hasao.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took us three months to convince them to surrender after their activities (extortion) came to light, the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were later forwarded to Haflong Police Station for further procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haflong (Assam), Aug 19 (PTI) Eight militants of the Kuki Tribal Union (KTU), including members of its armed wing&#8217;, surrendered before security forces in Assam&#8217;s Dima Hasao district on Friday, an official said. The militants surrendered at the 11 Assam Rifles base camp at Sarkari Bagan area of the town, in presence of top security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}