Operation Golden Bird was initiated to intercept a column of north-eastern rebels —Naga, Manipuri and Assamese — making its way through the jungles of southern Mizoram after picking up a consignment of weapons that had landed at Wyakaung beach, on the Myanmar-Bangladesh coast. The operation was aimed at flushing out the United Liberation Front of Assam, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland and Manipuri fighters in camps along the border. Bangladesh military intelligence service Directorate General of Forces Intelligence had helped carry the consignment in trucks to a hill base in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, from where the rebels had picked them up. National Unity Party of Arakan guerrillas followed the whole operation, providing details to Indian military intelligence, on the basis of which India's eastern army command initiated Operation Golden Bird. The rebel column was twice intercepted by Indian troops. It was a 45-day operation, but the operation ended abruptly as Rangoon