FILE PHOTO: Myanmar nationals including those who said they are police and firemen and recently fled to India flash the three-finger salute at an undisclosed locationFILE PHOTO: An Indian national flag flies next to an immigration check post on the India-Myanmar border in Zokhawthar villageFILE PHOTO: A Myanmar national who said he was a policeman and recently fled to India shows his badges as he poses at an undisclosed locationFILE PHOTO: Myanmar nationals including those who said they are...
The tools used by members of the network are simple: social media messaging apps, mobile phone SIM cards from both countries, hardy jeeps and a knowledge of smuggling routes along the Tiau River, a narrow ribbon of water flowing between sparsely populated mountains that separate India and Myanmar. Myanmar’s military has said a Nov. 8 election won by Suu Kyi’s party was fraudulent - an accusation the country’s electoral commission has rejected. Military leaders have declared a state of emergency. They have promised a new election but have not set a date.
The teacher said he had left Myanmar in the wake of the 1988 suppression of pro-democracy protests by the military junta. As many as 3,000 people are thought to have been killed in those clashes. Two policemen who recently crossed into India told Reuters they were also guided by volunteer-led groups in Myanmar. Both recalled journeys that passed through townships in northwestern Myanmar.
The cost of the journey through Myanmar to the border is between $29 and $143, depending on distance travelled, according to the policemen Peng and Ngun. The cost was mostly to pay for transport, such as hiring a vehicle or using shared taxis, they said.Ngun, the policeman, said he entered India in early March near a remote Mizoram village perched on a steep mountainside ringed by thick forests, about an hour's drive to the Tiau River.
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