In 1969, I became secretary to MNF president Laldenga. I was then 25 years old. We were all in Chittagong. During the war, we escaped to Arakan hills… - Pu Zoramthanga
" "In 1969, I became secretary to MNF president Laldenga. I was then 25 years old. We were all in Chittagong. During the war, we escaped to Arakan hills (in Myanmar) before reaching West Pakistan. It was a James Bond-type escape. The directorgeneral of the ISI later told us in Islamabad that they couldn’t imagine how we had managed to escape. Many Pakistani army personnel were killed, caught and imprisoned. We joined a group of refugees and somehow reached the Akyab (now called Sittwe, a famous port in Myanmar). We were there for a month or so. Finally, we took a Pakistani flight from Rangoon to Karachi. Between 1972 and 1975, we were based out of Islamabad.
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Zoramthanga (born 13 July 1944) is an Indian politician who is the Chief Minister of Mizoram. He is the president of Mizo National Front (MNF) party. He had served as the Chief Minister of Mizoram from December 1998 to December 2008, for two consecutive terms. He was second-in-command to Laldenga during the secession movement of Mizo National Front, and became the successor as the party leader, after MNF was a recognised political party, following the death of Laldenga in 1990.
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Earlier in 1970, I accompanied party president Laldenga to China. It was a secret mission from Dhaka to Beijing. We first reached Canton (Guangzhou) before landing in Beijing. We then visited Shanghai before returning to Dhaka. During our stay in China, we had a talk with the then Chinese premier Zhou Enlai and other important functionaries. Mr Zhou Enlai asked me: ‘You look very young, how old are you?’ I said I was 26 sir. He laughed and said, ‘You are younger to me by almost 50 years.’
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