Aizawl, Aug. 1: In a startling disclosure concerning the Mizo Tlangval (MTV) and the leadership of the Central Young Mizo Association (CYMA), a member of a Myanmarese militant outfit today claimed links with these two organisations.

The CYMA leadership, however, vehemently denied charges of links between their organisation and Myanmar rebels as well as MTV, a vigilante group.

Lalawisang, a member of the Chin National Confederation (CNC), a faction of the Chin National Federation (CNF), said they had acted on ?orders? from at least two CYMA leaders against drug peddlers.

The Peace Accord MNF Returnees? Association (PAMRA) today made ?citizens? arrests? of three CNC members as they met a person the MTV had threatened at a restaurant on Zion Street here. Bringing back the three men to their headquarters at Treasury Square, PAMRA members made them available to mediapersons for questioning before handing them over to police.

Answering a barrage of questions from mediapersons, Lalawisang said, ?MTV is just a name and there is no such organisation. I don?t see any difference between the Central YMA and the MTV as we take our orders from members of the CYMA leadership.?

Asked whether he could name these persons, he said one was Rawna (H. Vanlalrawna), a CYMA central executive committee member, and Chalkhuma (K. Chalkhuma), Central YMA treasurer and CYMA supply reduction service commander.

PAMRA members said they had been actively investigating who the members of the MTV could be and in the course of their investigation, they had come upon S.T. Thawma, who had received a quit notice from Mizoram by the MTV in the same letter in which human rights activist Vanramchhuangi had been threatened. Thawma had informed them that the CNC had asked him to join their outfit on a number of occasions, but he had always turned these offers down.

The CNC had even demanded money from him for purchasing arms on one occasion. After the threat letter came, he received word that the threat would be removed if he coughed up a sum of Rs 1.4 lakh. PAMRA set a trap where they apprehended Lalawisang, said to be the chief of the CNC, Josua Hlonthang, ?army chief? of the CNC, and Vanlalbawia, a CNC activist, at TC Restaurant on Zion Street today.

Lalawisang, when questioned further by mediapersons, said they had been invited to dinner at Central YMA president Lianzuala?s residence after the police released them.