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Arrest blow to NSCN stooge OUR CORRESPONDENT The telegraph

Shillong, Jan. 14: The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah)’s plan to expand its network in Shillong through the formation of a Khasi outfit, Hynniewtrep Liberation Force, was nipped in the bud after Meghalaya police arrested the top leaders of the new group.
Deputy superintendent of police (crime) Vivek Syiem told reporters today that the NSCN (I-M) militants had deputed a senior cadre of the militant outfit from the Hebron camp, Nickson Khang, to float the Khasi group in Shillong.
The police stumbled upon the plan after the arrest of Khang, a Tangkhul Naga, who was part of a seven-member gang, including the NDFB cadres, who had tried to abduct the son of a businessman on Sunday.
Though Khang had joined the gang to kidnap the son of the Shillong businessman, his mission was to float the new outfit, the police said.
Khang alias Apam succeeded in forming the outfit a few months ago, with 30 members.
Initially, six members of the outfit, including its self-styled commander in-chief, Shembhalang Dkhar alias “Freak”, and chairman Roykupar Marbaniang were sent to the Hebron camp of the NSCN (I-M) in Dimapur.
The militants, after returning to Shillong, recruited at least 30 more Khasi cadres to expand its operations.
Shembhalang Dkhar also met the top guns of the NSCN (I-M) at Hebron, police said.
According to the police, the first batch of trainees was supposed to be sent to Hebron for training earlier this month, but that did not materialise.
After the revelations from Khang, the police arrested both the commander in-chief and the chairman of the outfit yesterday from their residences in Demthring and Madanriting respectively in Shillong.
The police also seized the manifesto of the outfit and other incriminating documents.
The arrested men said they were assisted by the NSCN (I-M) to form the Hynniewtrep Liberation Force. According to the police, the main purpose of the NSCN (I-M) was to expand its network in Shillong and share the booty with the NSCN (I-M).
The NSCN (I-M) was also the mentor of Khasi militant outfit, the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC).
Nagaland timber traders hold emergency meeting morungexpress
DIMAPUR, JANUARY 13 (MExN): Office bearers of the Nagaland Timber Traders’ Union (NTTU) along with the district presidents held an emergency meeting at NTTU office, Northern Angami colony, Dimapur, on Wednesday and discussed various issues and problems presently faced by the timber community.
At the outset, NTTU members thanked the various departments and authorities for extending full cooperation to the timber traders during the year 2009, and said this has enabled the traders and hundreds of families dependent on timber trade to conduct their business smoothly. However, the members also expressed pain that in the New Year, a number of problems have cropped up including taxation and other form of harassment to the timber traders from various quarters.
The members said such problems have come in the way of smooth conduct of timber business and caused immense hardships to the timber traders and workers, who are working as per guidelines of the government. NTTU appealed to the departments and Naga National groups to work hand in hand for the welfare of the citizens as a whole and to resolve any misunderstanding with an open approach.
It further appealed to personnel manning check gates and other groups not to hinder the movement of timber vehicles in this season as the timber traders are incurring huge losses.
The meeting was attended by NTTU office bearers including their president Kevise Angami, vice presidents Husca Zhimomi and Kezo Chakhesang, advisor Hekuto Zhimomi, Phek District Timber Association president Sanyi Dukru and Peren District Timber Union president N John Zeliang.

Shillong haven for NDFB
- Police step up vigil in areas with mixed population OUR CORRESPONDENT


File picture of a pistol and documents recovered from the NDFB militants
Shillong, Jan. 13: Police in Meghalaya have stepped up vigil to track militants belonging to the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) who take shelter in localities with a mixed population to carry out abductions and extortion in the state.
On Sunday evening, the police foiled a bid by two suspected NDFB militants and five others to abduct a city trader’s son for ransom and arrested the seven-member gang.
One of the NDFB cadres, identified as Monthosh Daimary, 25, in December last year, rented a house at Bangladesh Colony, a locality with a mixed population, in the Polo area of the city to commit the crime. The other suspected NDFB militant has been identified as Bijay Sugunary. Five others, including two surrendered NDFB militants, Khomtha Daimary and Bipul Narzary, two Tangkhul Nagas, Nickson Khang and R.S. Somiror, and another person identified as Gopal Roy, were part of the gang.
A blank demand note of the Bodo outfit was also recovered from them.
Shillong (city) superintendent of police Claudia Lyngwa said today that the police had faced difficulties in tracking down the militants who were taking shelter amid a population comprising all sections of people in certain localities of the city.
Lyngwa said Bangladeshi Colony in the Fourth Furlong area in Polo had makeshift houses let out for rent at cheap rates. All sections of people, who come from outside the state, including the migrants and militants, take shelter here, making it difficult for the security agencies to find their whereabouts.
The suspected NDFB cadre, Daimary, had also hidden a country-made pistol with six rounds of live ammunition in the rented house as there was no police checking in the locality.
According to Lyngwa, as there was no headman in the Bangladeshi Colony, it was impossible for the police to interact with those responsible to check various crimes.
She said the government should take initiatives to check the antecedents of the people residing in the mixed localities. “We had issued several directives to all the headmen of various localities in Shillong in the past to verify the antecedents of the people who wanted to take rooms in the areas,” Lyngwa said.
In the past, several Northeast militants belonging to KYKL, DHD and NSCN residing in rented accommodations here were also arrested from various localities.
Besides, the mixed localities in and around the capital where the criminal elements take shelter, certain pockets of Ri Bhoi district and Garo hills have also become a safe haven for NDFB militants to carry out their activities freely.
A senior police official today said the intelligence network in Meghalaya would be beefed up to arrest militants taking shelter in various parts of the state.
Indian paramilitaries to reinforce Burma border Democratic Voice of Burma
Jan 14, 2010 (DVB)–India’s central government has ordered the deployment of Assam Rifles' battalions to its border with Burma to curb the movement of Northeast insurgent groups, some of whom shelter in Burma.
An Assam Rifles spokesperson, AK Choudhury, told DVB that a further 26 battalions would be sent to support existing Assam Rifles operations in the Nagaland and Manipur regions of Northeast India, where militants from various insurgent groups, including the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), are active.
He said however that “the situation along the border is normal. I cannot tell you about the why’s and the how’s [of the deployment]; these are organizational methods and they are confidential.”
Two captured ULFA militants allegedly admitted in December last year that the banned group holds strategic bases in the rugged and mountainous terrain of northwestern Burma, which Burmese troops have had difficulty penetrating.
According to former ULFA spokesperson, Sunil Nath, the group in 1989 developed links with the Burmese ceasefire group, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which controls much of the territory east of the India-Burma border region where the ULFA is active.
The Assam Rifles’ additional director-general, Major General J P Nehra, told reporters in India on Tuesday that the numbers of Northeast militants in the region had increased, prompting the Assam Rifles to boost its inadequate presence there.
To date, the Delhi-backed paramilitary group has relied on only 46 battalions, around 65,000 personnel, to man the 1,650 kilometer border and combat the region’s various insurgent groups.
As well as the ULFA, groups such as the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) and the Manipur-based People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, have proved adept at operating in the inaccessible border environment.
The Kolkata-based Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday that Nehra had also called for closer collaboration between the Assam Rifles and the Burmese army, to which Naypyidaw had responded positively.
The issue of cross-border insurgent activity is also likely to feature highly on the agenda during talks between the Indian home secretary, G K Pillai, and senior Burmese army officials when he visits the remote Burmese capital this week.
The Times of India also reported yesterday that the Assam Rifles had requested 100 new helipads in the Northeast to support the 26 new battalions.
Reporting by Francis Wade

Stilwell rally to boost ties OUR CORRESPONDENT The Telegraph
Shillong, Jan. 14: The Antique Wheels of the Northeast will take out a vintage car rally, featuring World War II vehicles, from the Meghalaya capital to the Stilwell Road in Arunachal Pradesh from Sunday to promote tourism and adventure.
Organised in honour of the war veterans, who sacrificed their lives by building the historical road on the Indo-Myanmar-China border in Arunachal, the vintage car rally will also highlight the need to have better economic ties with the neighbouring countries.
The secretary of Antique Wheels of the Northeast, Ashoke Lyngdoh, told reporters here today that World War II jeeps besides other vehicles would roll all the way from Shillong to Stilwell Road to pay respect to those soldiers, who against all odds built the serpentine route.
The rally will culminate with the Pangsau pass winter festival, being held along the Indo-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh on January 20 where chief minister Dorjee Khandu will greet the participants.

The tradition and culture of the Tangsa tribe of Arunachal Pradesh will be showcased at the annual winter festival to be held from January 20 to 22. During the festival, tourists throng Stilwell Road, Pangsau pass and the Lake of No Return on the border.
Stilwell Road connects Ledo in Assam and Kunming in China. While 57.9km of the road fall in India, 1,039.6km are in Myanmar and 639km in China.
Lyngdoh said one man’s life was lost after the construction of every mile or 1.6km of the Stilwell Road 65 years ago.
While Lyngdoh will be taking out his World War II jeep of 1942 make, his friend Keding Kurbah will drive another jeep used during the war in 1943. Other vintage vehicles from Assam like the Austin Cambridge of 1952 and Volkswagen Beetle of 1956, among others will also feature in the rally.
The rally will take the Shillong-Guwahati-Dibrugarh-Pangsau route.
Lyngdoh said the aim of the expedition was to create awareness on the historical road. “We also want more trade opportunities to be opened up between the Northeast and neighbouring nations like Myanmar and China,” he added.



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