Newmai News Network Imphal, Dec 13: Armed Forces Special Powers Act-1958 (AFSPA) is a draconian law though short in size but can kill humanity, it will not give any solution to the problem of Manipur, according to Justice Moloy Sen Gupta, ex-acting Chief Justice, Sikkim High Court and also the jury member of Independent People’s Tribunal on Torture, Extra Judicial Read more
India worst liar: NSCN (I-M) The GPRN/NSCN (I-M) today described India as the “worst liar in the world” when it claimed that is was sincere in resolving the “Indo-Naga political problem” and on the other hand stating that the demand for “sovereignty and integration of Naga inhabited areas is not negotiable”. Kilo Kilonser of GPRN/ NSCN (I-M), Keditsü Tsuzüh said Read more
Mengujuma | December 12 : A column of the Assam Rifles from the Zubza outpost today created tension when the security forces “disrupted” the proceedings of an NSCN (IM) annual conference/pre-Christmas programme at Mengujuma village here today. As soon as the vote of thanks started, heavily-armed troops of the Assam Rifles in a mini-truck and a Gypsy disembarked at the Read more
Imphal, December 11, 2009: The Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) along with Naga Women’s Union, Manpur (NWUM) and All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) observed the 61st International Human Rights Day yesterday at Oinam hill village in Senapati district. The theme of the observance was “Remember Oinam:Embrace Diversity; End Discrimination”. Villagers from the area who survived Operation Bluebird Read more
Dimapur, December 11 (MExN): International Human Rights watchdog Amnesty International today denounced the Indian government’s attempt to amend the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act and has demanded that Indian parliamentarians must repeal the black law. Indian Parliamentarians voting on a government-introduced bill to amend the AFSPA must repeal the law instead, stated Amnesty International in a statement issued on Read more
Indian separatists ‘increasingly cornered’ By Subir Bhaumik BBC News, Calcutta Separatist rebels from north-east India, facing considerable heat in Bangladesh, are desperate to find a new sanctuary in the neighbourhood, officials say. Nearly 50 of them have been arrested by Bangladesh security forces in the last two months and quietly handed over to Indian authorities . That includes at least Read more
PRESS RELEASE O8 – 12 – 09 The claim made by Mr. Gobinda Basumatary and Rwjab Deka in the press conference on 5th Dec, 2009 that Rwjab Deka escaped 10 months ago from the Boroland Army General Headquarters is nothing but just a blatant lie and a cheap propaganda. Rwjab Deka, the then Commandant of the Third Battalion who was Read more
Dimapur | December 9 : One of the world’s best known Nobel Peace Laureates and the man chosen by President Nelson Mandela to chair South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has congratulated the Naga people for the steps being taken to bring about peace and reconciliation. In a rare but significant letter of encouragement, Desmond Tutu wrote Read more
Dimapur, December 9 (MExN): The Forum for Naga Reconciliation has stated that “significant progress have been achieved with Naga Reconciliation” and that the recent Chiang Mai VII meet, November 30 to December 3, 2009, was further strengthened and affirmed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his letter to the Forum For Naga Reconciliation, dated December 1, 2009, from his office in Read more