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NSCN
(IM) harassing villagers : Students
Imphal,
August 11 : Students of the North East region have charged
that the armed cadres of the NSCN (IM) harassed many villagers
in the border areas. In a meeting convened at Guwahati on August
10, the representatives of the Asom Jatiyabadi Yuva Chhatra
Parishad, the All Manipur Students Union, the Karbi Anglong
Students Union and the All Bodo Students Union urged the leaders
to check the situation in the border areas. According to the
news available from the border areas, NSCN (IM) cadres are
harassing the villagers, said the president of the AJYCP, Kumari
Bhattacharya. The villagers of Golaghat, Sibsagar, Karbi Anglong,
North Cachar Hills, Cachar and Tinsukiya districts are harassed
and threatened by the NSCN (IM) to leave the areas, he said.
The
representative of the AMSU urged the government to take
precautionary steps to prevent any untoward incident in the
border areas. In the joint meeting, the students appealed to
NSCN (IM), Naga Students Federation and United Naga Council not
to block the national highway 39 and 53.
(August 11 : 8 PM)
Naga
Hoho calls emergency meeting
Kohima,
August 10 : The Naga Hoho, the apex body of the Naga tribe
has convened an emergency general body meeting on August 18 to
deliberate on the future of the Nagas regarding the ceasefire
agreement and its fallout.
Secretary
of information and publicity, Naga Hoho, in a release, said the
meeting would formulate ways and means to build consensus among
the people through mutually agreed principles. The meeting would
consider opinions of all Naga umbrella organisations, tribal
hohos, churches and civil society members, the release said.
(August 10 : 11 PM : Agencies)
Naga
Churches call for restraint
Kohima,
August 10 : Church leaders of all Naga inhabited areas of
the North East have given a call to exercise restraint and adopt
non-violence as a means to settle differences. At a press
conference here yesterday, under the aegis of the Nagaland
Baptist Church Council (NBCC) and the Council of Naga Baptist
Churches, the leaders discussed the June 14 ceasefire agreement,
its review by the centre and the subsequent violences.
NBCC
General Secretary Rev. Zhabu
Teshuja said at a juncture, when tension was prevailing in
Manipur between Meiteis and Nagas, the role of the Church was to
pacify people. Regarding
the ongoing peace talks between the centre and the NSCN (IM),
Rev. Terhuja said the time
was ripe for national workers to come to the negotiating table
to find an honourable and acceptable solution to the Naga
political problem.
(August 10 : 11 PM : Agencies)
Naga
organisations object to Media-bias
Kohima, August 10 : The Naga Peoples Movement for Human
Rights and the Naga Students Federations have jointly expressed
anguish over the manipulation of the Naga political problem by a
section of the media. In a joint statement, the two powerful
organisations of the Naga people said some sections of the media
had twisted the version of various Naga leaders to sell
sensational news. The organisations said they would not accept
any piecemeal solution which does not recognise the rights of
the Naga people. The organisations asked them not to be swayed
by cheap propaganda and disinformation to create confusion and
misunderstandings in the minds of the people.
(August 10 : 11 PM : Agencies)
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