30th August 2010 RESPONDING TO THE ASSAM RIFFLES’ PRESS STATEMENT This is in response to the Assam Riffles press statement carried in the local papers of the 28th August 2010 issue, in which the AR stated that ‘One NSCN Cadre was killed’ and ‘five’ others apprehended during the ‘operation in Namsa’. They wrote that NSCN violated the ‘Ceasefire ground rules’ Read more
Press Release 30th August 2010 Condolence Message of Late Major Ngachonmi Speaking at the condolence service of Major Ngachonmi on 27th August 2010 at Dimapur, on behalf of the Council of Cabinet Kilonsers, Mr. V. Horam, Kilonser, Ministry of Internal Security (MIS), gave a brief account of Late Major Ngachonmi in the service of the nation as a Naga Army. Read more
Expressing “deep shock and anguish” over Thursday’s incident at Tizit, wherein an NSCN (I-M) activist “Maj” Ngachonmi Tangkhul was gunned down by the paramilitary forces, the DAN constituted Political Affairs Committee (PAC) has condemned the AR’s actions saying it was a “direct violation” of the mutually agreed upon ceasefire ground rules. PAC chairman, Dr. T. M. Lotha in a statement Read more
August 27: The government of Assam has land and border disputes with almost all the North Eastern states such as Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram and these issues reflect the fact that the tribal were driven away from their lands by Assam, a former senior Nagaland minister said. Since India became independent in 1947, in the name of insurgency Read more
DIMAPUR | AUGUST 27: The fate of the 13-year ceasefire between the Government of India and NSCN (I-M) seems to hang on a thin line following Thursday’s incident at Namsa in Mon district where a ‘Major’ of the NSCN (I-M) was allegedly gunned down by security forces. Ceasefire Monitoring Cell (CFMC) convenor ‘Maj Gen’ Phungthing Shimrang alleged that some agencies Read more
AR scalps Sr officer of IM group Dimapur, Aug 26: Tension is running high in Nagaland after the Assam Rifles shot dead a self styled ‘army major’ of the NSCN (IM) in Mon district of Nagaland this morning while five NSCN-IM cadres have been reportedly arrested by the Assam Rifles. The NSCN (IM) has strongly condemned the action of the Read more
Dimapur | August 26 : In an unexpected development, two separate unrelated incidents has been reported one from Tizit under Mon district and the other from Mekokla village under Wokha district. In the first incident, it was informed that one SS Major belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagalim was killed in a firing incident involving an Assam Rifles Read more
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NAGALIM Ministry of Information & Publicity The NSCN condemned in the strongest term of the highhandedness of the 6th Assam Rifles (AR) who shamefully and irresponsibly attacked the NSCN camp at Namsa-Tizit, Mon district, in the morning of 26th August 2010 in which one Major of Naga Army was killed on the spot and Read more
Dimapur, August 25 (MExN): Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio today said Assam government’s juvenile accusations against Nagaland will only create enmity considering such wild allegations come from the mouths of “responsible leaders.” The Chief Minister’s Secretariat issued a brief note today in response to Assam’s allegations yesterday that Nagaland was indulging in aggression. “Issuing of such immature statements and Read more