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GPRN steps up anti-drug drive By Our Staff Reporter Sangai Express
IMPHAL, Nov 16: Stepping up its anti-drug drive, the crime suppression department of GPRN, South Zone rounded up some youths from Phaibung area who are drug abusers which ultimately led to the arrest of four drug peddlers.
Acting on the information obtained from the drug abusers, raids were conducted at Kachai village and four drug peddlers along with drugs in their position were apprehended, informed ASO, South zone Angam Kazingmei in a statement.
The identities of the drug peddlers and quantity of drug seized from them are disclosed as Wungreichon Kashung d/o Harngaila (36 strips of Daizepam and 226 Amps of Fortwine injection), S Mayala w/o S Ngarankhui (12 Amps of Fortwine injection), RM Lanthangla w/o RM Shangngayung (46 strips of Daizepam) and S Thanchungla d/o S Chirang (11 strips of Daizepam).
The peddlers have been supplying drugs to the youth of the area to spoil their life, Angam charged, while informing that all of them have been handed over to the village authority of Kachai after giving stern warning of dire consequences if they were found peddling drugs again. Angam further warned that if anybody from the Southern zone were found indulging in drug related matters, they would be punished befittingly. He also requested the village authority and the youth organisations to co-operate the CDS in fighting against the menace of drug and bring the youths to the right path.
Police refutes NSCN(K) charge against Hesso New Kerala
Kohima: Nagaland Police has refuted the NSCN(K)'s claim that slain Director General of Police Hesso Mao had allegedly shot down its cadre in 2000. The NSCN(K) was alleged to have killed Hesso Mao on November 8 in the state capital. Inspector General of Police M N Chakhesang in a release clarified that the DGP was killed by police who retained his rifle.
The police also said the assault rifle seized was under ''the custody of the police as exhibit in the court''.
The release said in 2000, NSCN(K) cadre, under the command of Michael Angami, had ambushed a convoy of 4th Nagaland Armed Police (NAP) battalion carrying ration and salary of police personnel and looted Rs 1,54,698 near Nerhema village.
The police carried out operation under the command of the then DGP to recover the looted amount.
Nagaland Police refute NSCN (K) version of former-DGP Hesso Mao’s killing The Morung Express News November 16
DIMAPUR: Subsequent to the NSCN (K) claiming responsibility for the assassination of former DGP late Hesso Mao on November 8 at his private residence in Kohima, the Nagaland Police today came out in strong repudiation of the organization’s justification for carrying out the killing.
The Nagaland Police in a press statement issued by MV Chakhesang, Inspector General of Police (INT) strongly refuted the version of the NSCN (K) which appeared in the local print media that late Hesso Mao was assassinated for capturing and killing with his own service revolver an NSCN (K) cadre SS 2nd lieutenant Visalie alias Michael Angami in cold blood.
“The NSCN (K) organization justified the assassination was in connection with the killing of one of their cadres SS Visalie alias Michael Angami who was allegedly caught by the then Addl. DGP (OPS) late Hesso Mao and shot him with his own service revolver terms as cold-blooded. But it is not correct at all. It is also not correct that the incident had taken place in May 2002 as claimed by the organization through media” the statement clarified.
In this regard, the release ‘in order to bring out the facts of the incident and to keep the record crystal clear’ maintained that on May 3, 2000, cadres of the NSCN (K) under the command of SS 2nd Lieutenant Visalie had ambushed a deployment of ‘B’ Coy, 4th NAP BN Tseminyu pay-escort convoy which was carrying rations as well as salaries and allowances of the Coy personnel.
The convoy was then ambushed and looted of an amount of Rs. 1, 54,698 near Nerhema village under Kohima district. Following the looting, the Nagaland Police carried out immediate combing operations in the areas, under the command of the then Additional DGP (OPS) M Hesso Mao for recovery of the looted amount and to arrest the miscreants. The release then stated that on May 5, 2000 reports were received that some of the miscreants involved in the looting of the money were camping near Thizama village. Accordingly the Police party conducted house-to-house searches in the mentioned areas and in the course of the operation two miscreants were rounded up.
The release then pointed out that one of the two miscreants had an AK assault rifle and for which the Additional DGP (OPS) ordered that the arms be surrendered. However the cadre refused and loaded his weapon to fire on the Police party. Seeing the gravity of the situation the police party opened fire, killing the cadre and recovering the weapon from the deceased who was later identified as SS 2nd Lieutenant Visalie alias Michael Angami while the one who was arrested was identified as SS Sgt Khekito Sema, the release stated adding that both the cadres belonged to the NSCN (K).
In this regard, the allegation that the Additional DGP (OPS) Hesso Mao had killed the deceased cadre was not correct, according to the clarification. It also clarified that the recovered weapon from the deceased cadre was seized by the police in connection with the robbery case and had been kept under the custody of the Police as exhibit in the court and as such the allegation that the seized weapon was kept by late Hesso Mao as a “souvenir” was not at all correct, the Police stated.
ANSAM says no to Meitei Mayek Newmai News Network
Imphal,Nov-16 : The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has informed all its federating units and subordinate bodies to prevent and stop the training programmes of Meetei Mayek/Roman script in the Naga areas.
Information and publicity secretary Ng Soni Khapa of ANSAM told Newmai News Network that the Naga students had resolved to oppose any form of imposition upon the will of the Naga people.
The ANSAM leader speaking on ANSAM's behalf, said that the recent initiative of the Government of Manipur and the notification issued in the local dailies by the Directorate of Education (S) to conduct training programme of Meetei Mayek/Roman script across the State including the Naga areas is viewed by the ANSAM as a challenge to the Naga people.
Soni Khapa while recalling the earlier resolution of the Naga student body, said that the ANSAM during its legislative assembly held in Imphal on April-13, this year had resolved against the introduction of Meetei Mayek in the Naga areas “and clearly stated its objection through submi- ssion of memorandum to His Excellency,the Governor of Manipur and the Manipur Chief Minister on April-19,2005”.
The Naga student leader then stated that ANSAM candidly cautioned the Department of Education and the Government of Manipur not to insult and provoke the Nagas.
The training programme for the Meetei Mayek/Roman script will not be permitted in Naga areas and also that any individual and institute both private and Government who attend the training programme will be held responsible if unwarranted repercursion happens to them, warned the ANSAM leader.
He also said that headmasters/headmistresses and Principals of the proposed training centres in the Naga areas are informed to pay heed to the directives and that violators will face drastic action. ANSAM also appealed to all the Nagas to support its decision.
Territorial army Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 16: The Ministry of Defence has approved raising of three Territorial Army battalions of North East. A PIB ( D/W) press release informed that the approved battalions are 164 Infantry Battalion (TA) Nagaland, 165 Infantry Battalion (TA) Manipur and 166 Infantry Battalion (TA) Assam and Tripura.

Based on tribal configuration and percentage of each State, the process of identification of potential candidates and pre-recruitment training for induction in this battalions will start shortly, it added.
Economic blockade in Noklak continues Allegation of ceasefire ground rules violation The Morung Express News November 16
DIMAPUR: Despite the Ceasefire Ground Rules clearly stipulating that there would be no blockade of roads and communications, disruption of economic or developmental activities as well as essential services by the NSCN (IM), the economic blockade being enforced at Noklak since the last one month continues with no sign of it being lifted in spite of the appeals made by various church bodies including the NBCC.
According to information received, the NBCC had tried to meet the outfit’s Kilo Kilonser but he was reportedly unavailable or out of station. An informal meeting with lower rank officials of the GPRN did not bear much fruit, NBCC sources told The Morung Express. The GPRN officials reportedly did not have the authority to deal with the matter as it was outside their purview.
There were also unconfirmed reports that even the NSCN (IM) civil authorities had no knowledge about the blockade being enforced at Noklak. Some of them when contacted were completely unaware of the blockade. “The army unit of the NSCN (IM) is enforcing the blockade and this also is being done unofficially without the knowledge of the higher ups”, a source in Tuensang on condition of anonymity told this paper.
According to sources the NSCN (IM) and those enforcing the blockade are reportedly demanding payment of house tax from the 1500 odd households in Noklak which has not been paid for the last eight years. The outstanding amount accumulated over the last eight years and which the NSCN (IM) is demanding from the Noklak residents is reportedly around Rs 14-15 lakhs. People from the region whom The Morung Express spoke to said that they had no knowledge about the NSCN (IM) demanding tax dues.
Khiamniungam leaders based in Tuensang however said that the economic blockade was being enforced by the NSCN (IM) after their ‘failure’ to ‘penetrate’ Noklak region which is acknowledged as a stronghold of the FGN. “The economic blockade is a desperate measure on the part of the NSCN (IM) who are bent on harassing the innocent public for no fault of theirs”, a source remarked while also alleging that the State administration in the region was least bothered about the blockade and cautioned that once the situation went out of hand more problems will be created.
At the time of filing this report, there were no clear reports about the economic plight of people inside Noklak. According to a reliable source there are about 20 general provision shops selling essential commodities. “But since the blockade has been going on for the last one month, the essential items may have already been exhausted”, the source said.
Chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group Lt Gen (Retd) RV Kulkarni and senior NSCN (IM) officials could not be contacted at the time of filing this report.
ANSAM warns against Meetei script in ‘Naga areas’ Newmai News Network IMPHAL: The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has informed all its federating units and subordinate bodies to prevent and stop the training programmes of the Meetei Mayek (script)/Roman script in the Naga areas.
Information & Publicity Secretary Ng. Soni Khapa of ANSAM told Newmai News Network that the Naga students had resolved to oppose any form of imposition against the will of the Nagas. The ANSAM leader, speaking on behalf of the body, said that the recent initiative of the government of Manipur and the notification issued in the local dailies by the Directorate of Education (S) to conduct training programme of Meetei Mayek/Roman script across the state including the Naga areas is viewed by the ANSAM as a challenge to the Naga people.
Soni Khapa while recalling the earlier resolution of the Naga students, has said that the ANSAM during its legislative assembly held in Imphal on April 13, 2005 had resolved against the introduction of Meetei Mayek in the Naga areas” and clearly stated its objection through submission of memorandum to the Governor of Manipur and the Manipur Chief Minister on April 19, 2005”.
The Naga student leader said that ANSAM had candidly cautioned the department of education and the government of Manipur not to insult and provoke the Nagas. The training programme for the Meetei Mayek/Roman script will not be permitted in Naga areas and also that any individual and institute both private and government who attend the training programme will be held responsible if unwarranted repercussion take place, warned the ANSAM leader.
He also said that headmasters/headmistresses and Principals of the proposed training centres in the Naga areas are informed to pay heed to the directives and that violators will face drastic action. The ANSAM has meanwhile, appealed to all the Nagas to support the decision.
Drugs seized: 4 arrested by NSCN (IM) The Morung News Express November 16 DIMAPUR: The Crime Suppression Department of the NSCN/GPRN, Kilo Affairs, Southern Zone, seized a huge amount of drugs and in the process arrested 4 drug peddlers and habitual drug abusers during a sting operation recently at Kachai village.
According to Angam Kazingmei, ASO Southern Zone, all those 4 arrested were females. Two of them were housewives while the other two were single. The four arrested were later identified as Wungreichon Kashung, from whose possession 36 strips of Diazepam pills and 226 amps of Fortwin injections were recovered. The second person apprehended was identified as S. Mayala from whose possession 12 Fortwin injections were recovered.
The other two were R.M. Lanthangla and S. Thanchungla and recovered from their possession 46 and 11 strips of Diazepam respectively.
On further interrogation the arrested drug peddlers/users revealed that they had been clandestinely supplying drugs to the youth in the above mentioned areas, thereby spoiling the life and future of so many young boys and girls according to ASO Angam. All the four arrested, after stern warning of dire consequences if caught again in future, were handed over to the village council/ authorities of the Kachai village.
Further, the ASO of Southern Zone warned that if any person from the southern zone were found indulging in any such anti- social activity, they would be punished severely.
The CSD in a press release also appealed to the village authorities and youth organizations to keep vigil and lend a hand in suppressing and eradicating such menace to the society so as to help keep the village clean, create awareness and to bring the youth towards the right path.
NPCC miffed at govt inaction at economic blockade New Kerala
Kohima: Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has seriously viewed the 'total failure of the state government' in taking stock of ongoing 'economic blockades' at Noklak and Chare under Tuensang district by different underground groups. NPCC President Hokheto Sumi in a statement here today said the economic blockade at Noklak, which has been imposed by the 'so called national workers' for almost on for a month.

It has gravely affected the common people of the sub-division, as they have been facing acute shortage of essential commodities. He alleged that even the district administration, instead of coming ahead for the rescue of the people are sitting relaxed saying that there are sufficient essential commodities.
Stating that national workers should be working for the welfare and development of the people, the NPCC alleged that the 'so called national workers are trying to strangulate the innocent public by imposing economic blockade'.

The NPCC also expressed surprise that present Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government led by the Nagaland Peoples' Front (NPF) party, which calls itself a government for the welfare of the people, was comfortable to remain a silent spectator and allowing a free hand to the underground elements to terrorize the people. "It is the DAN government's intention that the public be tortured, otherwise how can the government allow the underground groups to continue with economic blockade," he questioned. The NPCC hoped that the government initiates immediate action to take stock of the aggrieving situation and find measures to assist trucks bound for Tuensang to reach their destinations safely. The NPCC further hoped that the mindset of the people should change from the rule of gun to rule of law, the release added.
Three TA battalions for north east The Imphal Free Press

IMPHAL, Nov 16: The ministry of defence has approved raising of three Territorial Army battalions in the north east. These Army battalions will be 164 Infantry Battalion (TA) Nagaland, 165 Infantry Battallion (TA) Manipur and 166 Infantry Battallion (TA) Assam and Tripura. Based on configuration of tribal percentage of each state, the process of identification of potential candidates and pre-recruitment training for induction in these battalions will begin very soon, a release of the PIB defence wing said.

The nominated presiding officers of each of these battalions would be responsible for the selection process of the suitable candidates during the recruitment rallies and also for the raising of the battalions. All aspiring candidates are to be careful of touts and agents who are generally active with their modus operandi during such recruitment rallies, the release added

Racial Adulteration and Nagas Limalenden Longkumer The Morung Express In the light of the fact that we are encountering a massive demographic invasion, and that we are witnessing the early episodes of an epoch of racial adulteration, I strongly feel that we need to build a resurgent conviction to re-conquer and restore our liberty. But this resurgent conviction can only be the final product of an equal feeling in the millions of the Nagas.
In this epoch of racial adulteration and contamination, we must always remember that, just as many indigenous and aboriginal races across the world had to give way to others and leave no trace behind them, so also, we Nagas too will have to give way to the invaders if we lose our racial purity and identity. What makes a people or, to be more correct, a race, is not language or geographical boundaries but blood. Therefore, we must uphold and safeguard the sanctity of our national bloodstream. The adulteration and contamination of the blood and racial deterioration conditioned thereby are the primary causes that account for the decline of ancient civilizations. Having said that, if the Naga race is to survive the test of time, and if the Naga culture is to continue to exist, we need to build a sovereign State of our own because the State is the only weapon in the service of mankind’s great and eternal struggle for existence, the expression of a common will to exist – as one people, one race, one nation..
We are proud of our rich culture but this culture depends on our people for its existence. If we are, as a race, washed away to the tides of time and are replaced by a mongrel race as a result of racial adulteration, our culture will also be gone for ever – and what a sad tale to tell, that would be.
For the preservation of our culture and our racial stock, I repeat, we need to build a sovereign Naga State. However, we should remember the fundamental principle that the State is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Its end and its purpose is to preserve and promote a community of human beings who are physically as well as spiritually kindred. The Indian State will sooner or later collapse because it does not serve to this end.
The State and its people are analogous to the bottle and its contents. The State is only the bottle and the people are what it contains. The bottle can have a meaning only if it preserves and safeguards the contents. The Indian State is not our bottle. Therefore, we need our own bottle. A sovereign Naga State should be established and the Naga racial stock preserved and promoted – if we Nagas should survive till kingdom come.
Until such time as the sovereign Naga State is established, which I believe we can achieve by building the resurgent conviction to liberate ourselves, we should simultaneously take every care that our national bloodstream is not contaminated. The contamination and adulteration of our blood with that of the foreigners (the non-Nagas) in the course of many years will give form to a new mongrel race in which our original elements will become so wholly mixed through this crossing that traces of our original Naga elements will be no longer recognizable. We don’t want to be a chaff race, do we?
PERSPECTIVE POLICY/DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS, PEOPLE AND HUMAN INTEREST PERSPECTIVE Not Hunger... This is Murder RIGHT TO FOOD: More than 320 million Indians go to bed without food. The majority are tribals. They are paying the price for a development model that the upper classes have designed for themselves.
Endemic hunger and chronic poverty is arguably the most serious challenge facing a country like India. More than 320 million Indians go to bed without food every night. This is a figure for years with good rainfall, says Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS).
The causes of food insecurity are deep-rooted. It is related to poverty, illiteracy, discrimination and neglect. But finally, it is a story of failed governance — global, national and local.
The proportion of people facing food insecurity in India is higher than the proportion defined as income-poor or below the poverty line. The worst affected in this republic of hunger are the adivasis (tribals) — forcibly divorced from their habitat in the name of ‘development’, and left to fend for themselves. The Delhi-based CEFS conducted extensive research on food security in the tribal areas of Rajasthan and Jharkhand over two years. The final report: ‘Political Economy of Hunger in Adivasi Areas’ was released by social scientist Ashis Nandy last week in Delhi.
According to the report, a staggering 99 percent of the families surveyed were facing chronic hunger. Over a quarter (25.2 percent) had faced semi-starvation during the previous week of the survey while 24.1 percent faced it for the entire month preceding the survey. This means, over 99 percent of the adivasi households in the two states survived with one or another level of endemic hunger and food insecurity during the entire previous year. Out of 500 adivasi house- holds in Rajasthan, not one had secured two square meals a day in the previous year (2004). Overall, covering both Rajasthan and Jharkhand, a staggering 99.8 percent of adivasi households confirmed that they could not get two square meals even for a single month last year.
There is high dependence on jungle food in the absence of basic food, as starving adivasis are once again compelled to turn into food gatherers in depleting forests where they are not even allowed to enter. During the survey, 23.2 percent adivasis said that approximately one-fourth of their diet consisted of jungle food while 8.4 percent said that 75-100 percent of their previous year’s diet was food procured from the jungle. Protein (pulses and animal products) consumption was found terribly low. Less than one percent of households in Rajasthan and Jharkhand were able to eat some pulses or animal products during the entire year of 2004 — a clear case of widespread and continuous malnutrition. A study of the monthly break-up of protein consumption among adivasis suggests that 86.7 percent of adivasi households in Rajasthan and Jharkhand either could not eat any pulse or meat product, or they found basic food for hardly three months. This means that at least 86.7 percent of adivasi households were suffering from severe protein deficiency and were vulnerable to diseases. Severe protein deficiency among adivasi children leads to high infant mortality rate; this has now assumed alarming proportions in most remote, tribal areas of India. The report slams the development policies of the government and holds its deliberate anti-people policies responsible for the current state of organised suffering: “While the benefits of economic growth and industrial development have substantially gone to the rich sections of the society living in cities and towns, the ecological price of that progress has been largely borne by vast swathes of rural India, specially the adivasi areas,” it says. Indeed, a quick review of the major stories on hunger in the media in the last 25 years suggests that almost all the ‘hunger hot-spots’ of India lie in the adivasi areas and almost every second starvation victim is an adivasi.
The government would like us to believe that hunger in tribal areas is because of droughts and the collapsed public distribution system (PDS). But the defunct PDS or drought is not even the tip of the ‘hunger iceberg’. The core of the problem lies in the structural changes in the adivasi economy in the last six years that have destroyed the traditional livelihoods and food systems of these communities. Says Ashis Nandy, “Just talking about PDS will be like escaping reality. Even the argument of destruction of livelihood is only a part of the reality. The problem is that the tribals have been forced into a western concept of ‘monetised’ economy that they are not able to cope with. They were poor, but we have made them destitutes. The Indian economy is slowl preparing to make them extinct. One third of the tribal population has already scattered. It’s time we gave them their environment back.”
A staggering 90.6 percent of the households said that their food security had weakened in comparison to what it was two to three decades ago. Also, 54.9 percent identified decline in availability of minor forest produce due to deforestation and degradation of forests as the most important factor for weakening their food security support systems.
The report is categorical: “Immediately after Independence, the Nehruvian development paradigm embarked on building “temples of modern India”. The social and ecological costs of development, fairly well documented by now, were largely borne by the country’s adivasi communities in terms of physical displacement, destruction of sustenance base and gradual alienation from natural resources... It is the same adivasis whose survival base has been sacrificed at the altar of ‘national interest’ and ‘greater common good’… Adds Ashis Nandy, “We have not been able to address our problems because we are ready to overlook them in the garb of development. We no more want to call ourselves poor. We call ourselves developing. This is a distortion of development. Referring to sustenance, rural development etc has become fashionable. No one refers to development directly. I hope this fashion of development dies out soon, because the West, from where we borrow our concept, was developed much before the concept of ‘development’ came on earth.” (Tehelka)

NE must come forward to join global economy By A Staff Reporter Assam Tribune
GUWAHATI, Nov 16 – President of the All India Management Association (AIMA) Sudhir Jalan has called on the people of the North-East to abandon old mindsets and join the global economy. “The mindset of exploitation has to change,” he said during a press conference here last night. Jalan, who was in the city on the invitation of the Guwahati Management Association (GMA) to felicitate the winners of the young managers’ competition, said the people of the region have to stop thinking that their resources are being exploited without any concurrent benefit for themselves.

“Let us see what is lying below,” he suggested, adding that the region is full of resources that has to be tapped for the benefit of all. He reminded that the most developed nations, like Taiwan, Singapore and Israel are the ones that have the least resources. The opposite holds true for the resource-rich areas, he said, mentioning Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as examples of regions sitting on huge resources hut lagging in development. “Don’t think you have been left out,” Jalan advised the people of the region. “Think out of the box,” the eminent industrialist said. He said that apart from the natural resources, the region also has untapped human resources. Meghalaya and Mizoram, he said, have the highest level of computer literacy in the country. The region also has a large English-speaking population. “Why can that not be tapped?” he asked. Jalan, who is also the Honorary Consul General of Greece in India, said the North East states have the added advantage of being close to international borders. Stating that opposition to outsiders investing in the region is unfounded, he pointed out that the Chinese welcome more and more investments by foreigners knowing that if foreigners build assets in their country, they cannot physically take it away. “The thinking of the people of the North East has to change.”

The AIMA chief said the economic future, post 2020, is in favour of India and China. India’s strength lies in its knowledge. It is also the youngest country in the world with 75 percent of its population being below 35. “The younger people are our strength provided there is the right management movement,” he said.
Jalan is a pioneer in management development in the country. The 49-year old AIMA, that he heads, is the apex body of all management associations in the country. There are 56 local management associations affiliated to AIMA, Jalan said. AIMA has played a leading role in propagating distance education in management in the country. The 45,000 AIMA graduates have all been well placed in industry. “Our effort in management socialism has been so successful that we are finalising a new facility in New Delhi.” AIMA also conducts the nationwide Management Aptitude Test (MAT), which is the most popular management entrance test in the India. Jalan later felicitated six young managers of the state who came out winners in the young managers’ competition organised by GMA. Among those felicitated, in the presence of a galaxy of business leaders and corporate honchos, were Shankhaneel Borah of Guwahati Refinery, Nihar Prasad Sharma of Numaligarh Refinery, Anup Kr Deb of Hindustan Paper Corporation, Jagiroad, Upasana Baruah of the Assam Oil Division, Anant Tiwari of Dharampal Satyapal and Anupam Sarma of Reliance Telecom Limited. The young managers’ competition is an attempt by the GMA to encourage the development of professional management in the North East.
Karbi hills ‘quit notice’ deadline ends today Our Bureau Sentinel
DIPHU/ GUWAHATI, Nov 16: With the deadline set in the ‘quit notice’ served on the Dimasas of some localities in Karbi Anglong district by a relatively unknown outfit called Karbi Solidarity Troops ending tomorrow, unidentified miscreants today burnt the house of one Bhagyalal Jibdung at Beltola locality in Diphu. Meanwhile, DHD chairman Dilip Nunisa today told The Sentinel that nobody had the right to issue ‘quit notice’ to the Dimasas of Karbi Anglong and rued that the district administration and the State Government were still unmoved on the episode. Warning the UPDS of dire consequences if they failed to put on halt to their anti-Dimasa activities, the DHD rubbished reports that it had served ‘quit notice’ to the Karbi’s in NC Hills.
Karbis to oppose transfer of Karbi land to Dimaraji Correspondent Sentinel
DIPHU, Nov 16: The newly-floated Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) comprising 16 associations of Karbi Anglong, yesterday staged a four-hour sit-in-demonstration in front of the Karbi Anglong Deputy Commissioner’s office. Thousands of Karbi men and women from various walks of life shouted slogans condemning the DHD and their demand for Karbi land for creation of the proposed "Dimaraji". The JCC activists condemned the alleged atrocities perpetrated by the DHD cadres in the district. The JCC also submitted a memorandum to the Governor of Assam through the Deputy Commissioner, Karbi Anglong. During an hour-long demonstration, the huge gathering comprising hundreds of non-tribal people led by Karbi women expressed their solidarity with the victims of atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the DHD.
It may be mentioned here that the main demand of the Joint Coordination Committee is removal of the DHD designated camp from Dhansiri to some other place as the committee believes that this is the centre from where the recent violence had originated. Some of the leaders of the committee said that if this camp was removed, the DHD outfit would lose the platform from where they were perpetrating violence on innocent people since 2003. Expressing its concern over the non-shifting of relief camps from the educational institutions, the JCC also expressed its apprehension that if the relief camps were not shifted, the students might lose an entire academic session. The JCC opposed the Government's move to set up rehabilitation camp in compact areas.
The other Karbi organizations participating in the demonstration demanded that the displaced victims of ethnic carnage be sent back to their ancestral places with full security and immediate release of economic package for the riot-affected people as had been promised by the Assam Government and the perpetrators of the recent violence be punished. Regarding the inclusion of Karbi land in the proposed ‘Dimaraji’ propagated by the Dimaraji Demand Committee (DRDC), all the organizations, showing solidarity with the Karbis, opposed the so-called sinister design and vowed to fight against any such move, which the Karbi organizations termed as a threat to the territorial integrity of Karbi Anglong. It may be mentioned here that representatives of the Nagaon District Karbi Students’ Association, the Karbi Lammet Amei, Nagaon district committee and the Karbi Students’ Association, Arunachal Pradesh also participated in the demonstration.
Peace march in Mohendijua Sentinel
DIPHU, Nov 16: Leading anthropologist and human right activist Prof B K Roy Burman, along with the executive members of the KAAC, members of the KNCA, the Karbi Students’ Association (KSA), the Dimasa Students’ Union (DSU) and lecturers of Diphu Govt. College, led a peace march at Chutianala, Manja Kheroni, Upper Mohendijua, Lower Mohendijua areas of Karbi Anglong district yesterday. The team organized a meet at Longkoi Bey village of Upper Mohendijua, the oldest village where the Karbis and the Dimasas have been living together since time immemorial. Village leaders of both the communities attended the meet. Among others, student leaders of the Karbis and the Dimasas also addressed the meet and the student leaders of the KSA and the DSU took a pledge of unity before the public.
KSA asks Kalam to intervene By a Staff Reporter Sentinel
GUWAHATI, Nov 16: The Karbi Students’ Association yesterday submitted a memorandum to the President of India demanding his immediate intervention in solving the ongoing ethnic clashes between the Karbis and the Dimasas. The memorandum was submitted through the Deputy Commissioner, Karbi Anglong. According to Sarthe Ronghi, president, KSA, the State and Central governments must review and amend the ground rules of the ceasefire agreements with the militant outfits. "One militant organization should have one designated camp, and that should not be in the areas which are sensitive and have a mixed population," said Ronghi. He further said that the DHD camp at Dhansiri should be abolished since it is a sensitive area.
On the other hand, the KSA has also demanded disarming of the members of the militant organizations according to the ceasefire agreement and provision of security to the disarmed groups. The KSA has appealed to the Central Government to bring outfits like the KLNLF to the negotiating table, and to start political dialogue with all the militant groups that are a party to the ceasefire agreement. The KSA has called upon the government to vacate the educational institutions used as relief camps and to arrange for temporary relief camps with provision of high security. The student body has also demanded a Rs 500 crore package from the Central Government for the affected families



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