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DIMAPUR, MAY 10: Hundreds of women under the banner of Naga Mothers’ Hoho Dimapur (NMHD) staged a ‘Torch rally for Peace’ Saturday evening at Diphupar ‘A’ gate, to protest the recent factional clashes in civilian populated areas of Dimapur.
Participants of the rally, which also included some students and menfolk, shouted slogans like “We want peace” and “Shed no more blood.”
Addressing the peace rally, NMHD president Hukheli Wotsa said the rally was organised to create peace zone as mothers could no longer stand the factional clashes taking place everywhere in Dimapur.
Calling attention to the deteriorating law and order situation in Dimapur, Hukheli said Nagas have had enough of fratricidal killings. Read the rest of this entry »

DIMAPUR, MAY 10: An imminent clash between the rival NSCN factions was averted at Seithekiema village Saturday, due to efforts of the villagers and timely intervention of the district administration and police.
A Seithekiema villager told Nagaland Post over phone that a group of NSCN Unification activists had come to the village at around 9 a.m. and were preparing to have their meal, when the rival NSCN (I-M) activists who were in the vicinity of the village came to know about the presence of the rival group. Read the rest of this entry »

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In their Homeland the Naga peoples are being held captive by extreme violence.

How to get out of this vicious circle spurred on by internal differences based on betrayals in the past leading to tribalism?

Accusing, bickering, defecting fighting and lastly rampantly killing has turned the Naga Homeland into the ‘killing fields’ of the northeast of India. Starting with the infamous Shillong Accord in 1975 the first violent division among the Nagas became fact. Then, 8 years after the foundation of the Naga Socialist Council of Nagaland, NSCN, Khaplang, vice president of the NSCN, attacked the camp of the NSCN. He was convinced his fellow NSCN leaders were busy selling out to the Government of India in Delhi. The bloody attack he mounted claimed the lives of numerous NSCN members and another division came into being. Read the rest of this entry »

Dimapur, May 10: The NSCN (IM) has stated that the merger of the group led by Azheto Chophy with NSCN (K) was in “line with their habitual change of allegiance”, pointing out that this was “an insult to the Nagas” and that “this group played with the sentiment of the Naga nation by harping on the serious issue of Naga unification”.
But with their action in contravention of their high sounding unification agenda they proved themselves on the wrong footing, it stated. Revealing their true colors, these people went back to their original fold under NSCN-K which they condemned as ‘without principle’, ‘without discipline’, ‘without vision’, ’statehood protectors’, stated a press note issued by the MIP. Read the rest of this entry »

Dimapur, May 10: The NSCN (IM) today expressed “a huge gratitude” to the Angami People’s Organisation (APO) for extending ‘a human treatment to the dead body of Ayin Kashung of Ukhrul’, who the NSCN (IM) maintained, died fighting like a true soldier and who never turn back once ordered to go forward to face the enemies.
“The Angami people came forward to show the last respect Ayin deserved and covered his lifeless body with their tradition shawl and transported the body to Wungram colony to handover to the Tangkhul civil societies,” and MIP press statement stated.  In this regard, the release highly appreciated the traditional respect exhibited by APO and said that it is the reflection of the true culture of the Naga hospitality “in the face of dead while confronting the enemies of the nation”. Read the rest of this entry »

Kohima | May 10 : The Union Home Ministry and the State government had reportedly come out in no uncertain terms today pointing out that there is no such organization as NSCN (Unification) in its book and that the present camp occupied by the group at Vihokhu village under Dimapur district is not authorized and should be vacated.
The same was made known to the NSCN-K representatives during the Ceasefire Supervisory Board meeting held at Dimapur today which was also attended by Joint Secretary of Union Home Ministry in-charge Northeast, Naveen Verma.  The NSCN-K representative led by Supervisor CFSB NSCN-K, Kughalu Mulatonuo, Wangtin Konyak member, Nitovi Secretary CSFB, Hokato, member and RM Lotha, member reportedly told the representative of the Government of India and the state government that they came as representatives of the NSCN-K and not as NSCN (U). Read the rest of this entry »

Dimapur, May 9: Leader of Opposition, I Imkong has refuted the allegation made by senior NSCN (K) kilonser, Kughalu Mulatonu that he paid Rs 5 crores to Muivah in December 2007.

“This statement is nothing more than a figment of imagination aimed at damaging my public image. I have at no point of time even thought of contributing to any group(s), much less at a time so close to the Assembly Elections,” he said in a rejoinder issued today. Read the rest of this entry »

Dimapur, May 9: The NSCN-IM MIP today informed of its “passing out ceremony” of its “7th batch military basic training course” held at “Mt. Gilead training centre, Naga Army.” An MIP note stated that “kilo kilonser” Keditsu was the chief guest while Tokim, steering committee member, was the guest of honor. The MIP informed that “top Army and civil officers” attended the ceremony. Keditsu expressed appreciation to the “General Field Training Department (GFTO)” and “Training Masters for undergoing all the hardships and pains in moulding the trainees” as committed and hardened cadres. He recalled a line from the poem “Light of the Brigade” as an exhortation, the MIP stated.

DIMAPUR, MAY 9: Speaking at the Parliament on March 4 and April 21, 2008 Lok Sabha MP of Outer Manipur, Mani Charenmei, called attention to the slow progress of the talks between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India and said that it has created doubt on the success of the peace talks. He said that the delay was eroding the faith and confidence reposed on the Centre and creating restlessness, particularly among the youth. He sought to make clear that if the GoI’s aim is simply to contain the underground groups instead of committing to give peace to the Naga by removing injustice done to then, real peace may prove elusive even if the Centre is to exterminate or abolish all the Naga insurgents. “The Naga deserve peace; their demand is legitimate; and their demand for unification or integration to live under one administration is not at all unconstitutional; it is not illegal.” Read the rest of this entry »

DIMAPUR, MAY 9: Six Naga legislators of Manipur Legislative Assembly have expressed concern over the prevailing situation in and around Dimapur and the “senseless killings” taking place including loss of innocent lives.
The six legislators - Dr. Khashim Ruivah, W. Morung Makunga, Awangbou Newmai, K. Raina, Danny Shaiza and W Keishing - in a letter to Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio said the prevailing situation was a threat to the well-being of Naga society. Read the rest of this entry »