Insurgency / Nagaland

NEW DELHI, February 2: Union Joint Secretary home, in charge of the north east, GK Pillai, during an informal chat with a group of mediamen over lunch, a day after the conference on "Media in the Northeast under pressure" organised by the India International Centre in association with the Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research on January 28, clarified that the Government of India's position on the ceasefire with the NSCN (IM) has been somewhat misread by the media in general. According to him, the Government of India has never announced a territorial jurisdiction of the ceasefire. On...

IMPHAL, January 23: The All Manipur Students' Union, AMSU has strongly objected to the proposal of the extension of ceasefire with the NSCN(IM) to other Naga inhabited areas of the Northeastern region. A memorandum to this effect was sent today to the Prime Minister, the Union Home minister and Chief minister of Manipur by Premananda Yumnam, general secretary. The question of ceasefire jurisdiction has been a bone of contention. Because the NSC (IM) is planning to create a separate state of Nagas comprising large areas of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. Earlier these governments had...

DIMAPUR (Rangapahar), January 22: Though a semblance of peace has returned to Nagaland following the ongoing ceasefire, factional fights among the two warring Naga groups NSCN(IM) and NSCN(K) are going to rock the State and parts of Manipur in the near future. What is a more significant development is that largescale extortion by the militants has also gone alltime high. Although unlike Tripura militants, NSCN militants do not indulge in indiscriminate kidnappings, sustained extortion during ceasefire has certainly been a matter of apprehension for all the Army deployed in the State. The...

IMPHAL, January 21: The NSCN(IM) has stated that it now sees a glimmer of sincerity on the part of the Government of India in the Revised Agreed Ground Rules which was finalised on January 13 as it contains the clause that the ceasefire will be extended to all Naga inhabited areas. In a release faxed to The Sangai Express this evening the Secretary of the Naga rebel outfit, V Horam said that though the NSCN is not fully satisfied with the revised ground rules it is the best option in the prevailing condition. The release added that a little sacrifice here and there between the parties was...

PURUM, January 20: The Union home ministry will be convening a meeting of the four chief ministers of Nagaland, Manipur, Assam and Meghalaya soon to thrash out the question of extending the ceasefire between the government of India and the NSCN(IM) into all Naga inhabited areas falling within their states. This was stated by the Union joint secretary home, in charge of the Northeast, GK Pillai during a meeting with media persons at Purum in the Senapati district on January 18. However, Pillai either out of deliberate omission or unintended slip did not mention the Arunachal Pradesh chief...

IMPHAL, January 20: Opposition parties in Manipur are going to oppose any move of the Central Government regarding extension of ceasefire between the Government of India and the banned National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) in any part of Manipur. A delegation of the Manipur Democratic Front (MDF), the combined front of the Opposition of the State, will pressurise the Centre not to extend the ceasefire agreement to any Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur. This was informed by the leaders of the Opposition during a press conference hold at the Speaker's bungalow on Friday evening. The...

GUWAHATI, January 17(UNI): The ceasefire with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) is likely to be extended to all Naga areas of the Northeastern region. A crucial meeting of the Chief Ministers of Northeastern region, besides that of Nagaland was being convened shortly to take the final decision, said the Joint Secretary of the Union Home ministry, GK Pillai. The July 1997 ceasefire with the rebels had been extended till July 31 with revised ground rules debarring the NSCN cadres to carry arms to all populated areas, besides there would be no safe havens. This was decided after...

GUWAHATI, January 17: The Government of India is likely to convene a meeting involving Chief Ministers of the Northeastern states to discuss the issue of 'ceasefire without territorial limit' as has been insisted by the NSCN(IM) engaged in peace talks with the government. The joint secretary (NE) of the Union Home Ministry, G K Pillai, informed The Assam Tribune that the centre was likely to consider a ceasefire pact with the NSCN(IM) without territorial limit in view of the 'solid progress' made in the last round of negotiation with the outfit. The last round of talks saw changes in the...

DIBRUGARH, January 17: A well concealed camp of the Isak Muivah faction of the NSCN was busted near Shikobasti southwest of Miao in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh by troops of the Second Mountain Division on January 16. Two cadres of the outfit, "Corporal" Thai Atom Tangkhul and "Private" Hokuto Sema, were apprehended in the operation carried out in the twilight hours that day. The seizures included a big consignment of incriminating documents, a Chinese grenade, a 9 mm carbine, a large quantity of rations, medicines, personal belongings, ammunition pouches and an Israeli army cap...

GOLAGHAT, July 30: Naga extremists have stepped up their extortion drive in the 'B' and 'C' sectors of the Assam Nagaland border within Golaghat district. The poor villagers living in the 'B' and 'C' sectors are forced to spend sleepless nights due to the threats received from the extremists. The villagers of Natun Raja Pukhuri, Ranipukhuri, Chetiagaon, Chandalachung, Dolipather within Dhansiri sub-division alleged that the district administration is doing nothing against the extremists who have continued killing, kidnapping and looting the non-Naga people. The Naga extremists have resorted to...