Mamoon Shibli, chief executive officer of the Ruma subdistrict administration, said members of ethnic minority groups first took refuge in mountain forests and streams after separatists opened fire on security forces from their villages, where insurgents took refuge in 2000 because of the operation Was. Hills of Pendu Union.
The family moved to the city when the situation improved. Uhla Mong Marma, president of the Pendu Sangha Parishad, said some other families may still be in the forests.
Police said they recovered the body of a suspected member of the KNF, also known as the Bavam Party, from the hills following retaliatory action by an army unit. The army and the Rapid Action Battalion have been conducting joint operations for months after reports of activities by separatist and Islamist groups emerged.