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01/18/2011: "NSCN on arms buying spree, building cadre Sanjib Kr Baruah, Hindustan Times"

NSCN on arms buying spree, building cadre Sanjib Kr Baruah, Hindustan Times

The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah), has been accumulating a huge stockpile of sophisticated weapons as well as building their cadre strength since 1997 when the peace process started, intelligence sources have told HT. "In the last 13 years, NSCN-(IM) have more than trebled their weapon and cadre strength. It is the only Northeast insurgent outfit with more weapons than cadres," the official said. The present strength is believed to be at least 5,000.
The assertion is significant in the backdrop of the arrest and questioning of Anthony Shimray, head of NSCN-(IM)'s Alee company or the foreign affairs cell. The government says Shimray was in Kathmandu shopping for arms.
Shimray, 49, now in the NIA's custody, is believed to have been arrested in Kathmandu airport on September 27 while purportedly on his way to New Delhi to participate in the ongoing talks. The government's version is that he was 'picked up' from the India-Nepal border.
With the ongoing Chinese army's modernisation, a lot of discarded weapons are being stored in Shenyang, capital of the Liaoning Province.
Intelligence sources say Chinese-origin weapons are being bought by Northeast-based insurgent groups in large numbers and are mainly sourced by the China Northern Industrial Corporation (also known as Norinco).
"Another Bangkok-based representative of a white goods company is also involved," the source added.
"These companies sell arms only to sovereign nations and ask for an end-user certificate, which is furnished under the name of the Government of the People's Republic of Nagaland, the outfit's government-in-exile," the official said.
Declining comment on the arms stockpiling, VS Atem, NSCN (IM) spokesperson told HT: "There is no doubt that the Naga movement being a peoples' movement has grown."
Delhi faces flak for delay in Swu’s visit
OUR CORRESPONDENT The telegraph


Isak Chishi Swu
Kohima, Jan. 17: The delay in arrival of Isak Chishi Swu, the chairman of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah faction), to New Delhi has raised an eyebrow on the Union government.
Swu, who was scheduled arrive in New Delhi from Bangkok, Thailand, by January 13 along with his wife Avuli and other members of the group, has been delayed because of various reasons, including a passport problem.
However, the delay has led NSCN (I-M) supporters in New Delhi and members of the outfit to questioned the Centre’s sincerity in resolving the Naga political issue.
Boveio Poukai Duo, the co-ordinator for organising the reception for Swu, told The Telegraph today, “The sincerity of the Government of India is questionable.”
He said if the Centre was sincere towards resolving the long-pending Naga political issue, it would make all arrangements for the arrival of the Naga leaders in New Delhi. He alleged that New Delhi was never sincere towards solving the Naga issue and had applied delay tactics.
Swu was scheduled to reach Nagaland today to give tempo to the process of reconciliation with other Naga factions who have been waging bitter fratricidal killings.
Before coming to Dimapur, Swu was scheduled to meet NSCN (I-M) general secretary Th. Muivah and address members of the Naga community at Talkatora stadium in Delhi. “We are prepared to give him a grand reception,” Duo said.
He said Delhi would only be a transit point for Swu, whose main purpose of visiting the country was to meet the leaders of other factions, including his old comrade S.S. Khaplang, who is now the chairman of the NSCN (K).
Muivah and Swu have told the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), which is spearheading the Naga reconciliation process, that Khaplang should be involved in the process. However, there are doubts within the NSCN (K) and among the Nagas on whether the Centre would allow Khaplang to enter Nagaland.
The NSCN (K) had said the Centre should not create any obstacle for the visit of Khaplang to Nagaland. The sources in the outfit said their chairman would land in Nagaland by the first week of February to meet the leaders of other groups.
On September 18 last year, Muivah had met NSCN (K) general secretary Kitovi Zhimomi and the president of the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN-S), S. Singnyu, at Dimapur in the presence of members from the FNR.
NSCN (I-M) leaders here said they preferred not to comment on the delay in Swu’s arrival. However, sources said Swu, who has been travelling across the world with a Bangladeshi passport, has been asked to surrender the passport to Bangladeshi authorities. NSCN (I-M) kilonser (minister) for information and publicity A.Z. Jami said he was not aware why Swu had been delayed.
“We are not much aware of what has happened to the chairman’s travel, but we know that some of our leaders are already in New Delhi to welcome him,” he told The Telegraph from Dimapur.
He refused to comment further on the matter.
Joy, secretary for information and publicity, also said he has not been informed of the latest development about Swu’s visit. “We are not informed of the latest development right now,” he said.
Solution To Frontier Nagaland Problems Lie In Nagaland And Not In Delhi Thepfulhouvi Solo Morung
FEELING has no Form or Color and therefore Feeling is not easily seen unless it comes out in visible Form. A man may feel angry but others would not know his anger unless it turns into action, a woman may feel very happy but unless she laughs, others would not know she is happy.
The erstwhile Tuensang-Mon people must have felt sidelined in Nagaland’s economic journey. Rarely do people feel bad out of nothing; the Tuensang-Mon people must really have valid reasons for being less than happy at the condition of their Area in comparison with others of Nagaland. They are less fortunate but successive Governments of Nagaland have not looked after them as successfully as it should have.
The Writer has a photo of Noklak Town taken nearly 20 years ago and one taken recently; Noklak did not seem to have changed much in the last 20 years. In Nagaland, one can guess the community from the accent of Nagamese he speaks; most of the persons driving posh vehicles around sounds to be from Sümi or Ao or Angami or Lotha Communities and not much from the others, the number of super Contractors from a Community indicate the Economic condition of that community. Surely the people of Tuensang-Mon Area have been less fortunate. There are Villages in interior Nagaland with no Electricity for the last 2 years though Nagaland, after Haryana, has connected entire Villages in the State long ago. There are Villages in Nagaland without motor Road connections after nearly more than half a century of road constructions.
It is good that people are now required to declare their assets at the time of the submission of their Nomination Paper for Elective Post in the Legislative bodies, it is found quite a few Candidates from the four fortunate Communities are Lakhpatis and Karorpatis. Even a respected religious Leader from a forward Naga Community settled in the West is a Millionaire.
OPPORTUNITIES determine the Economic condition of a People and Opportunities appear to come by easier to certain groups due to complex Social, Political and Economic SYSTEMs we have unwittingly developed.
To be nakedly illustrative, it seems it has become the norm in Nagaland that whenever a person becomes the Chief Minister, commonly his Community profited more over others in Economic Prosperity. By and large, the Family Members of a Minister in Power have an edge over others in developmental opportunities. This is the way complex Systems of opportunities works in Indian Politics and Nagaland also seems to have contracted the democratic Disease from Delhi. In other Democracies like UK today, election of a Mr. Blair does not give undue advantage to the Blair Community but to the Labor Community of the Nation and the election of a Mr. Cameron Prime Minister of UK gives no advantage to the Cameron’s family but to all Conservatives of the whole State.
To express a general fact of life frankly however, a Man makes himself rich more than others make him rich. Even in rustic traditional Naga Villages a Villager Cultivator becomes richer than others because of his qualities. He has the same two hands, the same ten fingers, two legs and two Eyes just like any other Villagers, he works the same day light hours like other Villagers, may be, he sleeps a little less night hours than others but no one has any secret Agenda to make him richer than others, yet he is richer because he is more industrious, more frugal, more earnest and careful, more positive, truer to life, more courageous and honed sharp his qualities of head & heart others are not very careful about.
Nobody made the Japanese rich from the dusty remains of the Atom Bomb of World War II; they have made themselves the second richest Nation in the world within 30 years after being annihilated. Nobody made the West’s more civilized than others; it is the Westerners themselves that have made them most developed in the world; in 500 years after 1500 AD, they made themselves more advanced than others. The Singaporeans have made themselves one of the richest City Nation within the life time of a single Prime Minister. Twentieth Century democratic Nations like Korea and Taipei are richer and more advanced than Nations of ancient Civilizations like India or Iran because of the democratic, political and Economic Systems they practice.
It is SOCIAL, POLITICAL, and ECONOMIC Systems that affect the Prosperity of a People. Nagas are still mostly in their simple Social, Political and Economic Life; we boast ourselves as having the Purest Democracy in the world but when Elections comes, in many places, one man collects all the voting Papers of the Village and performs the purest form of voting in the name of the solidarity of the Village. And if we think we are loosing, we have no regret even to smash the Sacred Ballot Box of Democracy so that others are also made to loose like us and every body keep silent. Such Social, political Norms and Attitudes in the Society make us lag behind others and equitable distribution of Economic Opportunities becomes very difficult to develop.
Today in Nagaland, the Government appear becoming more and more like a Company: the CEO and the Managers control a Company; for the past nearly 50 years, the Ministers and the MLAs from Tuensang–Mon Area have behaved like nice dutiful Company Employees rather than like Managers. Once they get the Post of a Minister plus their livelihood, they should be deciding the future destiny of their people but they simply behave like Company Employee. What the Tuensang-Mon Legislators have failed to realize for the last more than a generation, the ENPO has bought out into the open. It is good the ENPO has brought it out to the notice of the entire Naga Public.
A recently elected Leader from the Area when asked to express his opinion on the present Issue replied he has no Comment! It is such timidity, lack of courage, lack of leadership and lack of vision for the general good of his People that creates weaknesses in the Society. Mr. Ibobi Singh has vehemently and courageously opposed the dismemberment of Naga Area from Manipur but in Nagaland even important core Cabinet Leaders evade unconvincingly and say the lame excuse that the burning Issue is between the ENPO and Delhi only as if Nagaland has nothing to do with it.
Tuensang-Mon Area is an endearing part of Nagaland, some Nagas have even boasted sometime ago that there is no power in the world that would separate the Nagas from Nagas, but when the people of Tuensang–Mon Area, because of some genuine grievances, speak of Separation from Nagaland, even some Naga National Groups appear to be afraid of the Public Opinion of the Area and say they have no comment on the issue but insist they are still on UNITY OF NAGAS. What interesting but perplexing paradox!
To cut a long story short: the Management of the ‘FRONTIER NAGALAND STATE’ would be nowhere easier than Managing boisterous Nagaland. If Nagaland has unwittingly, unintentionally and imperceptibly gone awry, there is no guarantee Frontier Nagaland would not; as it is, there are serious Ethnic, Economic and Political imbalances and difficulties in the Area; who will solve them; from where will the better Managers come? In Delhi, Political Power comes from the number of Palms, not much from the Graciousness of the Bank –two cardinal facts Frontier Nagaland does not possess, and they are walking into the Ocean without Boats even.
It is true they have grievances in Government employments, in development and in economic disparity; we feel really sorry for them but the problem is best solved openly, honestly and truthfully in Nagaland in eye ball to eye ball straightforward palaver for suitable special -if required Guarantee Arrangement- to ameliorate the grievances rather than tread into the land of rapacious Giants where Angels are few and far between.
People may personally feel bad towards Individuals but Government is not an Individual, it is a corporate Body and it is not profitable for people to feel bad at Governments where no one particular person would take the blame. It is better to bind Government with unbreakable ropes in Agreement Terms advantageous to ourselves rather than feel Angry at it!

‘End divisions, build common Naga interest’ Our Correspondent Morung
Kohima | January 16 : In an indirect reference to the move for a separate State by the tribal bodies of Eastern Nagaland under the banner of the Eastern Naga Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO), a top commander of the GPRN/NSCN’s Naga Army has expressed apprehensions that internal conflicts and differences among the different groups and organisations may hamper the ongoing peace process which has reached such a critical juncture.
Interacting with this scribe, top Naga Army commander of the GPRN/NSCN, Maj. Gen. Niki Sumi opined in the interest of the Naga people in general, groups such as the ENPO, Tenyimia Peoples’ Organisation, United Naga Council (UNC), JCC, NSF, Hohos etc should give priority to the common Naga interest instead of creating further divisions within the Naga people. “They should think what is best for the Nagas’, Gen. Niki said while also stating that the various political parties, cutting across party interests, should support any move that is in the interest of the Naga people in general.
He expressed serious anguish that some of the groups in some Naga zones are initiating policies that differ and are against the common Naga goal. He went on to maintain that such policies that threaten the Naga people if they are practiced, then the efforts of decades of struggle for the Naga goal and the sacrifices of thousands will be in vain.
The Naga Army commander opined that any internal matter can be solved once a solution to the vexed Naga political issue is found and that any move that threatens to divide the Nagas would prove catastrophic for the common Naga cause.
Reminding that the Naga issue has reached such a critical juncture, he strongly advised groups or parties of the different zones against initiating different policies for personal interest at such a crucial stage. On the reconciliation process among the different Naga groups, he expressed satisfaction with the progress of the initiative, stating that the results so far are laudable and in the right direction. Asserting that there is now no hesitation among the groups, he stated that it is now up to the Naga people.
“Every Naga tribe, everybody, every organisation, every political party should strive to achieve this target of reconciliation among Naga brothers”, he said adding all should give priority and interest in the national goal and not in groupism that would only further create division among Nagas. “If all give the same cooperation we can achieve our target”, he added. Also, hinting that New Delhi is still sending out invitations to the group for dialogue, Gen. Niki said dialogue can commence only when there is a united Naga voice.

Human Rights Committee constituted DIPR Morung
Kohima, January 18 (DIPR): In the absence of State Human Rights Commission in Nagaland under Sub-Section (1) of Section 21 of Protection of Human Rights Acts, 1993, the Government of Nagaland has constituted State Level Human Rights Committee and District level Human Rights Committee.
The State Level Human Rights Committee will have Home Commissioner, Nagaland, Kohima-Chairman; Secretary, Law & Justice-Member; Special Secretary (Home)-Member Secretary and Joint Secretary (P&AR)-Member. The District Level Human Rights Committee will have Deputy Commissioner-Chairman; ADC (Plng)-Member Secretary; CDPO, Social Welfare and SP of the concerned District-Members.
The terms of references are as follows; the District Level Human Rights Committee may receive complaints of violation of human rights in its respective jurisdiction, and after due verification of the matter it shall submit reports to State Level Human Rights Committee Bi-Monthly; The State Level Human Rights Committee will then study the reports submitted to it and enquire into the violation of human rights in respect of matters relatable to any of the entries enumerated in List-II and List-III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution; provided that if any such matter is already being inquired into by a Commission or any other Commission duly constituted under any law for the time being in force, the Committee shall not inquire into the said matter.
This notification was issued by Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Lalthara