Insurgency / Nagaland

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 ? Asserting that the talks with NSCN (I-M) group were progressing well, Minister of State for Home ID Swami on Friday said the Government was open to hold dialogue with separatist groups including the Naxalites, reports PTI. ?We are committed to strengthen peace moves elsewhere also,? Swami said in Rajya Sabha referring to breakthrough made in talks with Bodo separatists and efforts to hold a dialogue with Hurriyat and other groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

At the same time, the Minister, who was replying to a private member?s resolution demanding special category status for...

Kohima, Jan. 14: Pro-insurgent Briton David Patrick Ward, arrested in Nagaland six months ago on charges of assault and arson, will have a high-profile visitor to his prison cell next week in the form of his country?s deputy high commissioner to India, Andrew Hall.

The British high commission had written to the Nagaland government asking for Ward?s deportation to the UK, but the seriousness of the charges against him stalled the process.

Variously described as a ?Robinhood-type character?, a ?tricky person? and a ?fanatical supporter of Naga insurgency?, Ward was booked under the National...

New Delhi, Dec. 25 The two top leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) are planning a second visit to India almost a year after spending a hectic fortnight in New Delhi trying to break the ice with the political leadership.

If all goes well, NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah will be in the capital in February to take the peace process a few steps closer to the goal of ending Naga insurgency. The duo is expected to pack in a trip to Nagaland, their first since July 1999.

Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio said he was certain...

IMPHAL, Dec 21?The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isasc Muivah) extending moral support to ULFA and other revolutionary organisations which have come under heavy attack from the Bhutanese army in Bhutan for the past few days, has imposed a 24 hour bandh in all Naga areas in the North east.

The bandh began at of 6 am on Sunday 21 and will conclude at 6 am the following day, according to sources here. The outfit which is currently continuing peace talk with the Government of India since August 1997 also stated that they fully endorse the 48 hour bandh called by ULFA, NDFB and KLO.

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New Delhi, Dec. 20: The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) today broke its silence over the Royal Bhutan Army?s operations against militants of the Northeast. Terming the exercise as brutal and cruel, the NSCN (I-M) said the military drive has shocked the people of the region.

?According to reliable sources, almost every arrested person was shot dead, arrested women were raped and even killed mercilessly. Human rights are being grossly violated,? said Thuingaleng Muivah, the outfit?s general secretary, in an email from Oking.

He said it was really sad that a situation has been...

Dimapur, Dec. 19: The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) has denied the Kuki Inpi?s allegation that the former was providing logistic support to the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) rebels. The apex body of the Kuki tribe in Manipur had recently urged the NSCN (I-M) to restrain the KRA cadre who are engaged in a series of bloody clashes with Karbi outfit United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) in Karbi Anglong district in Assam. The Kuki Inpi had accused the NSCN (I-M) of helping the KRA cadre.

In a release today, the NSCN (I-M) said the Kuki Inpi had ?cooked up a wild...

BANGKOK, Dec 9 ? After three rounds of talks with the Centre?s pointman K Padmanabaiah here, Naga rebel group NSCN(IM) today said that ?integration of Naga areas? is a non-negotiable issue even as the two sides agreed in to meet in New Delhi in the near future to ?maintain the pace? of negotiations, reports PTI.

In a joint statement issued at the end of the parleys which began on Saturday, they said they held ?serious discussions on all substantive issues?. ?Both parties are pleased with the progress that was made on a number of important issues,? said the statement signed by T Muivah, NSCN...

BANGKOK, Dec 8 ? The second round of talks between NSCN (IM) leaders and the Indian Government ended inconclusively today with the two sides deciding to meet again tomorrow. ?There was no breakthrough in today?s talks between NSCN (IM) chief negotiator T Muivah and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee?s special envoy K Padmanabaiah, Naga sources told PTI.

The current obstacle in the progress of peace talks between the two sides is the reported remark by Vajpayee during his recent visit to Kohima on the integration of Naga areas. T Muivah, who is the General Secretary of NSCN-IM, has said that...

BANGKOK, Dec 7? Picqued at Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee?s reported remark that integration of Naga areas in the North-east was not possible because of lack of consensus among all parties, NSCN (IM) has said peace talks with the Centre cannot be continued unless the government clarifies its stand on the issue, reports PTI. ?We took the remarks very seriously. Unless they are clarified the talks between the two sides can?t be carried on further. He has shut the door against us,? NSCN (IM) general secretary Thuinagaleng Muivah told PTI after two rounds of talks with Centre?s interlocutor K...

Imphal, December 06: Piqued at Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee?s reported remark that integration of Naga areas in the North-east was not possible because of lack of consensus among all parties, NSCN(IM) today said peace talks with the Centre cannot be continued unless the Government clarifies its stand on the issue. "We took the remarks very seriously. Unless they are clarified the talks between the two sides can?t be carried on further. He has shut the door against us," NSCN(IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah told PTI after two rounds of talks with Centre?s interlocutor K...