Insurgency / Nagaland

Guwahati, April 22: The NSCN’s Khaplang faction has called upon the Naga National Council to play a more active role in the search for a solution to the Naga political impasse, questioning the rival Isak-Muivah faction’s “killing” of several NNC members for surrendering to the Union government.

The Khaplang faction has drawn a parallel between Isak and Muivah’s acceptance of Indian passports and the NNC’s acceptance of the Indian Constitution with the Shillong Accord of 1975.

The outfit’s “ministry of information and publicity”, in a statement, claimed that the NSCN (I-M) had no “credibility”...

NEW DELHI, April 21 — The ongoing ceasefire between the NSCN-K and the Government of India is all set to be extended by another year. The current ceasefire pact between the two parties expires on April 28. The decision to extend the ceasefire was taken at a meeting between top officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs and a delegation of NSCN-K here today. According to sources, the talks today focussed only on the extension of the ceasefire and the vexed issue of starting the peace negotiations on the lines of the ongoing peace talks with NSCN-IM, did not figure. Significantly, Nagaland Chief...

Ukhrul, April 18: At the age of 77, he is only 11 years older to his brother. But in reality, he is a father figure to his sibling, Thuingaleng Muivah.

The modest home of Sangreihan Muivah, unassuming elder brother of the NSCN (I-M) general secretary, is just like any other Naga household.

Sangreihan is reluctant to hazard a guess about what would happen as the Naga peace talks move forward. He does, however, give an idea on how things have shaped for his family since the early days of the Naga rebellion and Th. Muivah’s own association with the movement since the Sixties.

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IMPHAL, April 4 — The Border Security Force, Nagaland and Manipur sector is likely to conduct more recuitment rallies sooner or later in Nagaland. Presently a large number of Naga youths who were recruited last year from seven districts of Nagaland-Dimapur, Tuensang, Mon, Kohima, Zunheboto, Phek and Mokokchung — are undergoing basic training at Churachandpur training centre in Manipur.

Talking to this reporter, an official of the BSF Nagaland & Manipur sector said that recruitment rallies were held at three different places in Nagaland and Manipur wherein 50 youths were selected for general...

NEW DELHI, April 4 — The honeymoon between NSCN (IM) leadership and Government of India’s chief interlocutor, K Padmanabhaiah appears to be over, with the Naga leadership warning that peace talks would be hit by if Government insisted on arms surrender. Even as the Government of India and NSCN (IM) are preparing the ground for the next round of talks somewhere in Europe, the Naga outfit fired another salvo at Padmanabhaiah by regretting ‘the irresponsible’ utterances from representatives of Government of India.

The NSCN (IM) is apparently put off by a statement about the possibility of the...

Dimapur, April 3: Naga Hoho president M. Vero today said the search for a political solution to insurgency in Nagaland should not be affected by the success or failure of efforts to unite warring factions.

Addressing a seminar here on ?Reconciliation, peace and unity?, the man who heads the apex organisation of Naga tribes said ?internal issues? must be dealt with separately to ensure that the pace of the ongoing political dialogue does not slacken.

Vero?s statement marks a departure from the popular view that the Naga peace process will remain a one-sided affair until the entire community...

NEW DELHI, April 3 — With elections to Nagaland Assembly over and a new Government taking charge, Government of India has revived the negotiation process with the NSCN (I-M). Centre’s chief interlocutor, K Padmanabhaiah is tipped to leave for Europe for the next round of talks scheduled for later this month.

The forthcoming talks between the Government’s emissary and the NSCN (I-M) leaders by all indication is likely to be a low key affair as substantive issues are unlikely to figure in this round. This round would mainly be about removing the misunderstanding between the I-M leadership and...

DIMAPUR, March 28 – “The Church in Nagaland sees that the Naga struggle will destroy itself and the Nagas unless the damaged human relationships that have pitted tribes, factions and parties against one another are addressed, healed and restored,” viewed Rev Kari Longchar, director, peace affairs, Nagaland Baptist Churches Council (NBCC), in his paper presentation titled “The Nagas Struggle and Crisis: NBCC’s Position.”

The 3-daylong seminar held here on “Peace and Reconciliation” laid stress on the role of the Church in shaping the thinking, values and living of all Nagas, besides pointing...

Kohima, March 21: The Khaplang faction of the NSCN today clarified that it had not received any fresh feelers for parleys from New Delhi, as reported in the media, though it has been receiving such proposals since the Nineties.

Deputy kilonser of the outfit Kughalu Mulatonu told The Telegraph that despite the willingness of leaders of both the factions of the NSCN (Isak-Muivah and Khaplang) to begin talks on unity, the issue was in the dock because of “some people in Dimapur”.

“Some people do not want us to unite despite willingness on part of the collective leadership. These are the anti...

KOHIMA, March 20 – The Nagaland Baptist Council of Churches (NBCC) said it had tried its best to unite various Naga underground factions by meeting their respective leaders and further disclosed that moves were on to meet the President of the Naga National Council (NNC), Adino Phizo. Speaking to NEPS here on Tuesday, Rev L Kari Longchar, Director of NBCC Peace Affairs, said the NBCC had already initiated the unity process of different underground factions by inviting them on August 9 last year here at Naga Club and further added that most of the leaders of the various factions attended the...