New Delhi: Myanmar has launched a Bhutan-like military operation to flush out anti-India insurgent groups based in that country, a senior leader from the Northeast said today (Feb 23, 2004).

"It is already on," said former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma after a 30-minute meeting with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani to discuss the Northeast peace process and the issue of seat-sharing in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

He declined to give further details or name any of the insurgent groups.

Sangma, who himself is trying to resume contact with ANVC, a Garo militant group, said the strategy was to take neighbouring countries into confidence and making the militant outfits realise that they have to come to the negotiating table. "This is helping us very much".