The central agency submitted to the court that foreign nationals had plotted to train the ethnic armed groups in Myanmar in drone warfare, operations, assembly, jamming technology, and more.
The likes of ideologically driven Matthew VanDyke operate as private citizens and NGO founders with combat training, funding and media reach in major strategic hotspots, providing their government with power without accountability.
The recent arrest of six Ukrainian and an American citizen by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for providing arms and training to Chin National Army-linked militants in Myanmar indicates that there are many dots that, if connected, may lead to the heart of the subversive activities of the US in the India-Myanmar-Bangladesh border region.
News videos that had the visuals of NIA officials loading the arrested foreigners into a jail van had one thin, long-haired individual wearing a mask. Soon, the name Matthew VanDyke was all over social media.
The investigators alleged that the arrested foreigners arrived in India on a visa and then entered Mizoram, which is a protected area. Subsequently, they entered Myanmar and contacted ethnic war groups.