The Mizoram police busted a gang of international arms smugglers after arresting a Chin tribal from Myanmar who was on his way to deliver rocket launchers to militants in the Northeast. The kingpin of the racket, Khatsi Anpao, was apprehended from an Aizawl-bound bus on March 21. Anpao’s interrogation led to the arrest of three more members of the gang. The police suspect that the arms were being taken to Cachar district in south Assam en route to the adjoining North Cachar Hills district, a beehive of insurgency. Reports noted that this was the second incident of an arms haul in Mizoram involving Chin traffickers1.

• 1. “Arms racket busted in Mizoram,” Telegraph, March 24, 2009, at http://telegraphindia.com/1090324/jsp/northeast/story_10711551.jsp