1,000 MNF militants escaped to East Pakistan after Indian victory in ’71: Mizoram CM | Popgen Tech

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Aizawl: Chief Minister of Mizoram Zoramthanga About 1,000 Mizo National Front (MNF) militants, then an insurgent outfit, had a miraculous escape from East Pakistan after the 1971 victory of the Indian armed forces and the Mukti Bahini, said Friday.

He said that MNF, now a ruling political party in Mizoram, observes ‘Vijay Diwas’ as ‘Exodus Day’ which commemorated the escape of insurgents from East Pakistan.

As the Indian armed forces and Mukti Bahini were approaching Rangamati, which was the then headquarters of the MNF, on December 16, 1971, then MNF president Laldenga suggested the militants escape through a waterway. Miraculously, a thick fog hid the exits, according to written accounts of former insurgents of the outfit.

The MNF waged an armed struggle from 1966 to 1986 for the separation of Mizoram from India, when a peace accord was signed, ending the two-decade-long insurgency in the northeastern state.

Founded by former Mizoram chief minister Laldenga, the MNF was renamed the Mizo National Famine Front (MNFF) in 1961 to protest the Center’s alleged inaction on the famine situation in the Mizo areas of Assam.

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Initially beginning with a peaceful uprising, the group went underground in 1966, leading a secessionist movement for 20 years before signing a peace agreement on June 30, 1986.

Mizoram became a full state on 20 February 1987.
Vijay Diwas is observed on December 16 every year to commemorate the victory of the Indian armed forces in the 1971 war with Pakistan.

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