The Centre has asked the army to launch operations against "militant camps" without publicly specifying their locations, hours after the Manipur attack was viewed by the security establishment as a "turning point".


On either side of Mount Saramati, the highest point on the India-Myanmar border at 13,000 feet, lie villages peopled by tribes found in both countries.


It is from among these villages that New Delhi suspects the attackers who killed 18 soldiers in Manipur's Chandel district to have emerged.
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