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**xIuvyAuT** · 04-06-2012, 04:13 PM

Silent rally echoes Mizo pain of '66 IAF attacks - Times Of India

Even as Mizoram is one of the most peaceful states not only in the region but also in the country, the ghastly memories of the IAF attacks continue to haunt all those who had survived the aerial strikes. IAF had then used Toofani and Hunter jets to carry out strikes on MNF volunteers, who had laid siege to the Assam Rifles headquarters in Aizawl, on March 5, 1966.

Though there's no official record of any human casualties during the air raids in Aizawl and places such as Tlabung on the Mizoram-Bangladesh border and Sangau and Hnahlan on the Mizoram-Myanmar boundary, locals say at least 20 people were killed in the IAF attacks. "In the first wave of the attack, the combat planes used machine guns. Later, bomb attacks were carried out," said Mawia, a 67-year-old resident of Aizawl, who still shudders to think of the strikes. "The IAF resumed the air strikes the very next day and continued the operation for five long hours," added Mawia.

A retired IAF wing commander said the combat planes used the Tezpur air force base to attack Mizoram in March, 1966.

While the MNF, which had launched an armed movement against the forces from March 1, 1966 for a "sovereign Mizoram", was banned by the government in 1968, many Mizos still rue that "the Centre has not come up with any satisfactory explanations on why India had used such a huge force against its own citizens in the name of suppressing a handful of insurgents".

The then Assam government had said the IAF planes were only dropping food supplies to the troops deployed in the inaccessible Mizo district (then one of the hill districts of Assam). Two member of the Assam assembly, Stanley D D Nichols Roy and Hoover H Hynniewta, who visited Mizoram immediately after the aerial attacks, had shown evidence to his colleagues in the house that bombs were used in Mizoram.

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xIuvyAuT Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 550 Senior Member	IAF used Toofani and Hunter jet strikes on Mizoram and Aizwal Silent rally echoes Mizo pain of '66 IAF attacks - Times Of India Even as Mizoram is one of the most peaceful states not only in the region but also in the country, the ghastly memories of the IAF attacks continue to haunt all those who had survived the aerial strikes. IAF had then used Toofani and Hunter jets to carry out strikes on MNF volunteers, who had laid siege to the Assam Rifles headquarters in Aizawl, on March 5, 1966. Though there's no official record of any human casualties during the air raids in Aizawl and places such as Tlabung on the Mizoram-Bangladesh border and Sangau and Hnahlan on the Mizoram-Myanmar boundary, locals say at least 20 people were killed in the IAF attacks. "In the first wave of the attack, the combat planes used machine guns. Later, bomb attacks were carried out," said Mawia, a 67-year-old resident of Aizawl, who still shudders to think of the strikes. "The IAF resumed the air strikes the very next day and continued the operation for five long hours," added Mawia. A retired IAF wing commander said the combat planes used the Tezpur air force base to attack Mizoram in March, 1966. While the MNF, which had launched an armed movement against the forces from March 1, 1966 for a "sovereign Mizoram", was banned by the government in 1968, many Mizos still rue that "the Centre has not come up with any satisfactory explanations on why India had used such a huge force against its own citizens in the name of suppressing a handful of insurgents". The then Assam government had said the IAF planes were only dropping food supplies to the troops deployed in the inaccessible Mizo district (then one of the hill districts of Assam). Two member of the Assam assembly, Stanley D D Nichols Roy and Hoover H Hynniewta, who visited Mizoram immediately after the aerial attacks, had shown evidence to his colleagues in the house that bombs were used in Mizoram.
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