The PLA carried out a number of attacks in the Imphal valley, the Meitei-inhabited heartland of Manipur, before splitting up into different factions and the remnants retreated across the Myanmar border.īesides the RPF/PLA, there are several other Meitei rebel groups, among them the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), the United National Liberation Front, and the Kangleipak Communist Party. Its founders were originally trained by the Chinese in a military camp near Tibet’s capital Lhasa. The PLA, the armed wing of the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF), has been active among the Meiteis since the 1970s. The Tatmadaw’s use of such proxy armies is bound to intensify, local sources say, as its manpower becomes increasingly stretched as even usually calm central regions of the country have become battlefields since the coup. India shares a 1,600 kilometer-long, porous border with Myanmar and the mountainous terrain makes it easy for rebel fighters to slip back and forth undetected by authorities.Įthnic Naga, Manipuri and Assamese rebels from northeastern India have for years maintained bases in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region, from where they often launch attacks on Indian forces and then fade back across the border.Īn obscure outfit known as the Zomi Revolutionary Army, presumably an ethnic Chin or Mizo outfit, attacked a camp set up by anti-coup forces in Tedim, Chin State, in late September.
Seven people including the commanding officer of an Assam Rifles paramilitary unit, his wife, their six-year-old son and four other riflemen were all killed when the convoy they were traveling in came under fire from People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF) rebels.īoth rebel groups are known to have sanctuaries across the nearby Myanmar border and reports indicate they may have retreated across the line after the deadly ambush was carried out. In this partnership, titled ‘ Changing the Chants’, we can combine our forces and our experience, learn from each other and provide football clubs and other organisations with valuable knowledge and insights.CHIANG MAI – When separatist rebels launched a lethal ambush in India’s northeastern state of Manipur on November 13, the shadowy attack acted to bring India and Myanmar’s hot-and-cold bilateral relations to a new boil. In May 2020 we heard the good news that thanks to a grant from the European Commission we could start work on a European level, with Feyenoord and Borussia Dortmund. The Anne Frank House started the Chants Project together with Rotterdam club Feyenoord in 2016, and it has also been working together with FC Utrecht for several years. That realisation has made many supporters resolve to no longer join in with these chants’. Suddenly the Jew who – according to a notorious chant – should be ‘sent to the gas’ acquires a human face. Joram Verhoeven and Willem Wagenaar of the Anne Frank House: ‘Time and again we see how supporters are shocked when they learn that their Jewish fellow fans can no longer go to the match because of the antisemitic slogans they’re subjected to. They meet Jewish fellow supporters with moving personal stories: people who share their love for the same club, and who they can identify with as football fans. They visit ‘name memorials’ and go to local addresses where people went into hiding from the Nazis. Supporters immerse themselves in this history, and see the enormous damage caused by the Second World War and the Holocaust. A key element of the programme is supporters’ intense loyalty to their club and their city, with an emphasis on the club’s and the city’s history. In the Chants Project football supporters follow an intensive day programme to raise their awareness of racist actions on the terraces. Chants projectįair Play workshops for young people and the Chants Project for football supporters, organised by the Anne Frank House, form a part of the action plan. This proverbial ‘last straw’ resulted in the action plan ‘ Football is for Everyone’, coordinated by the Dutch football association, the KNVB. But the match between FC Den Bosch and Excelsior on 17 November 2019, when Excelsior player Mendes Moirera walked off the field in tears following racist abuse by FC Den Bosch supporters, was a watershed moment. For many years racist remarks and antisemitic chants in and around football stadiums were dismissed as ‘innocent’ or ‘isolated incidents’.
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