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04/13/2012: "'GoI ready for settlement' Morung Express Dimapur, April 12 (MExN)"
'GoI ready for settlement' Morung Express | Dimapur, April 12 (MExN):
A team of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee after meeting Central leaders of the present UPA government disclosed that New Delhi was having a ‘positive’ frame of mind on the Naga political issue with the NPCC President Sungit Jamir even disclosing to the Morung Express that the Government of India under the Congress led UPA “they are ready to settle the matter”.
The NPCC team met AICC president Sonia Gandhi, and the big four at the Centre – the Prime Minister, Home Minister, Defence Minister and the Finance Minister. Speculations doing the rounds, of the NPCC again taking up the matter of I. Imkong’s status in the party with the AICC, the NPCC however, maintained that that particular issue was not at the core of the visit.
NSCN (I-M) tells NPCC to press Centre for expediting talks Morung Express
| Dimapur (MExN): NSCN (I-M) leadership is believed to have conveyed the state Congress leaders to press the central government for expediting the ongoing talks over the long protracted “Indo-Naga political issue.”
Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) members led by its president S.I Jamir met NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah Wednesday in New Delhi and deliberated on the progress of talks between the Centre and NSCN (I-M).
Speaking to this correspondent, S.I Jamir said that the NSCN (I-M) leadership conveyed to the Congress leaders that the ongoing talks were being held at a positive note and efforts were on by both the entities to resolve the issue at the earliest.
Forged Nagaland arms licenses pose security threat to India (UPI)
Indian security officials are increasing concerned about firearms security. The government is particularly unsettled by the proliferation of forged arms licenses in Nagaland. GUWAHATI, India, April 13 -- Indian security officials say they are increasing concerned about firearms security. The government is particularly unsettled by the proliferation of forged arms licenses in Nagaland in northeastern India. Recent police criminal investigation department inquires have determined that several armed private security guards and criminals in Assam possess illegal firearms purchased by using fraudulent arms licenses issued in Kangpokpi in Manipur and Dimapur in India's troubled Nagaland.
India's Nagaland state is in Indiay's far northeast and borders the state of Assam to the west and north as well as Arunachal Pradesh state and Myanmar to the east. The state is the center of a long-simmering insurgency. Residents say that their concerns have been ignored by the Indian government, The Telegraph newspaper in Kolkata reported. Many armed groups roam the state.
In response to New Delhi's alleged lack of concern, in 1980 the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, a Maoist organization, was formed to establish a Greater Nagaland, encompassing parts of Manipur, Nagaland and the north Cachar hills in Assam. The NSCN split in 1988 into the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) and NSCN (Khaplang), with both groups maintaining a shaky cease-fire with the Indian government.
Their concept of a Greater Nagaland is strongly opposed by the neighboring states of Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh as they all say they fear they would lose territory should such a political entity be formed. Among the security problems still roiling the region are extortion, kidnapping and inter-factional clashes. The CID, which is investigating, said arms and ammunition obtained using bogus licenses were a rising threat to public safety and an increasing concern for security forces.
"If anybody commits a crime with a firearm procured through these licenses, it becomes very difficult for police to track him down, since these licenses do not have the complete address of the license holder, a CID official, speaking on condition of anonymity to The Telegraph, said. The source said there is an "interstate racket" providing fake licenses to residents of Assam.
He said the investigation uncovered 41 arms licenses with all-India validity and with incomplete addresses had been issued by the additional district magistrate of Kangpokpi subdivision. "There must be some illegal activity going on," the source said to The Telegraph. "Otherwise, why would a resident of Assam go all the way to Kangpokpi and Dimapur to get an arms license instead of applying in his home state?"
PRESS STATEMENT
Dated Tahamzam, 13th April, 2012
The United Naga Council(UNC) has felt it necessary to bring the views of the Naga people in Manipur on the responses of the Meitei organisations and purported intellectuals of Imphal valley on 9th April 2012 edition of the local media on the supposed options that are emerging in the Indo-Naga dialogue to find an honourable settlement to the Naga issue.
As the UNC has always maintained, it is not against the political aspiration of the Meiteis and other communities, which of necessity are rooted in the histories of the respectivde communities. While it is matter of inherent historical rights for the Nagas to live together as a people, for the dominant community it is their economic and political interest that Nagas should not have political empowerment to be able to decide their own future.
Let it be also clearly placed that the land of the Nagas and tribals were not gifted by the Meitei Maharaja. Meiteis lived in the Sanaleibak of the valley and the Hao tribals/Nagas lived in the hills. Our histories were different. The hills were never a part of the Meitei Kingdom or its magnificent history. Nagas and tribal live in their own land. And Nagas and tribals alone must decide their destinies, which cannot not be conditioned and subjected to the interest and convenience of the dominant community of the valley.
The Indo-Naga dialogue is between the NSCN and the Government of India as two entities. The talk is in place because the legitimacy of the Naga movement has been recognised. Manipur is a state under the Constitution of India. But the parochialism and chauvinism of the dominant community as reflected in the recent statements emanating from the valley has given rise to the demand for alternative arrangements outside the communal government of Manipur by different tribal communities even as far back as 1948.
Selective reference of the Kuki-Naga conflict in the 1990s have been frequently cited to project the NSCN as the perpetrators of genocide. It was a clash factored by many causes and chief among them was the instigation and manipulation of the dominant community in the state who were the silent and sadistic spectators. But nothing is mentioned of the massacre of Nagas by Kuki irregulars in 1971-1919 with the use of 600 musket rifles provided by the Meitei Maharaja. The targeting of Nagas does not reflect kindly on the historical and ethical sense of the Meitei intellectuals. There seems to be a persistent aversion to any news or development on the historically registered Naga issue and decided unwillingness to look into the merit of the case. When the Nagas position is not appreciated and no sincere effort made to do so, then the peaceful parting of ways is the only option.
Threat of use of violence by referring to the June 18, 2001 mayhem is constantly used against changing the territorial boundary of Manipur. But such threats do not change the fact that Nagas and tribals are not Meiteis and that there is already an irreparable social divide in the present state of Manipur.
AMUCO and UCM rightly uses Manipur, which is without the Nagas and tribals in the hills. Their concern for Manipur’s (Imphal valley) territorial integrity is rightly placed. The “naked” Nagas have always desired is to be able to live together as a people and to have other communities as good neighbours. Sooner this position is understood as inevitable , the better it would be for all concern.
Publicity Wing United Naga Council
PRESS STATEMENT Naga Hoho
Dated Tahamzam, 12th April, 2012
The statement of Mr Gaikhangam, Home Minister of the Government of Manipur and President MPCC on the supposed options that are emerging in the Indo-Naga dialogue to find an honourable settlement to the Naga issue reeks of utter disrespect of the Naga people and their political aspirations. Although he himself is a Naga by blood, he describes as “daydream” the almost 6 decades of bloodshed and struggle of the Naga people for their rights to live together as a people. The Naga movement for their political aspiration, based on their history, has unfortunately dragged on for so long because of individuals like him who have betrayed the mandate of the people for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.
Mr Gaikhangam was not so long ago a champion for Naga integration and a signatory to the memorandum demanding for integration of Naga areas submitted to the Prime Minister of India on 27th May, 2005 by 11 MLAs and 2 MPs. The 30 pieces of silver has indeed turned him into a different person today.
The NSCN(IM) is having a dialogue with the Govt of India with a view to negotiate a settlement to the protracted Indo-Naga issue. Mr. Gaikhangam, who is the Home Minister of a state under the Union of India has the audacity to state that such a process that has brought peace in our land is a daydream. Instead of facilitating the peace process, as is his duty, this Naga become the spoilsport, for the applause from the gallery which threw down the silvers. Does he really believe in what he has uttered ? But history will record his due place in its pages.
Publicity Wing
United Naga Council
Nagaland produces world's first 'mithun' calf through embryo transfer technology ANI News track India
Kohima, Apr 13 (ANI): In a historic achievement, the world's first ever mithun calf was produced through embryo transfer technology (ETT) in Nagaland recently.
Scientists have named the calf "Bharat", which was born on March 27 and is the result of five years of hard work on embryo transfer technology by scientists at the National Research Centre (NRC) on Mithuns in Nagaland.
Dr Kishore Kumar Baruah led the team along with Dr Mohan Mondal, Dr Chandan Rajkhowa and several others. The entire cost of the project was less than Rs 10 lakhs.
"For the last five years we are working on this project. We have tried this ETT on seven different occasions and today we have succeeded," said Bhaskar Bora, research associate, NRC-Mithun.
Embryo Transfer Technology is the process of removing embryos from a female and placing them in another, the surrogate mother, where they develop. The surrogate mother gives birth to an offspring that is genetically unrelated.
Mithun is a domesticated form of wild Gaur and is mainly confined to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram in the Northeast. It weighs around 450 kg and produces around 1-1.5 litres of milk.
The new calf will help increase the population of mithuns in the region. It will attract more farmers to rear this domestic animal for its meat and skin. This technology has successfully been applied to pigs, cattle, horses, buffaloes and yaks.
The team is hopeful of getting three more mithun calves soon through this technology.Now we are planning that we should go in a very big way to the farming community through this technology. And now the second step we have taken with the financial help of Department of Biotechnology and ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) is that we have gone for a project to develop more embryos from transfer technology," said Chandan Rajkhowa, Director NCRM (ICAR).
The idea of the Mithun Institute was conceived in Vision 2030, with the aim to preserve, conserve and propagate superior quality Mithun germplasm for sustainable production system and subsequent utilization for better nutritional and socio-economic support to the farmers. (ANI)
ONE COUNTRY, ONE NATION – ONE PEOPLE, ONE VISION
THE PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY PARTY RESPONSE TO THE MILITARY JUNTA AND
AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S AFIRMATION OF THE MILITARY CONSTITUTION 2008
Date: 5th April, 2012
The British media, the BBC TV domestic and BBC World, Sky News, Radio, Newspapers led by the Times have gone over the top in praising the outcome of the phony election organised, arranged and choreographed by the military Junta to deceive the gullible that reforms are underway but to where?
1. The PDP's objective position is this; it adamantly does not recognise the military drafted 2008 Constitution.
2. The mindset of the military Junta is incapable of restoring democracy, freedom of speech/media, the Rule of Law, because its governance method is by arbitrary rule, coercion, imprisonment, torture, threats/intimidation and restrictions of access to media. In the circumstances, the notion of the military Junta introducing reforms is a manifest delusion to deceive those who are ready to collaborate with murderers, gangsters, looters of public assets, who have committed heinous crimes against humanity.
3. The so-called by-election, to allow Aung San Suu Kyi and some of her supporters to contest was a given and an elaborate political sham, which the military has perpetrated on the world media. The military Junta made sure that Aung San Suu Kyi won and a good number of her
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supporters for the simple reason that this will benefit it and influence the lifting of economic sanctions by European Union and other countries.
4. In the PDP's view, Aung San Suu Kyi's and the NLD participation in the so-called by-election charade, authored, prepared and supervised by the military Junta is a political confirmation that her and the NLD have joined the military Junta as partners and collaborators. She is tainted with the crimes against humanity but also with the gross betrayal of the brave 8888 students who were mercilessly killed by the Junta, and of the living students groups who chose her to be leader of the NLD, and of the tens of thousands of minority communities and thousands of the 2007 monks led demonstrations and more recently, thousands of the Kachin men, women, children – raped, killed and displaced in their thousands. She has been claiming recently that the military Junta are doing reforms right, and she does not want them to be investigated for crimes against humanity.
5. There is a presumption among the media in Britain, the US and Europe that the children born in 1988 and who are about 25 million are supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, which is not only outrageous, but also an insult to the people of Burma. This group has grown up being told by their fathers and grandparents that Aung San Suu Kyi will bring better times of plenty and employment! As they grew up, they kept asking their parents where are the jobs you have been telling us Aung San Suu Kyi would bring? The objective point here is that Aung San Suu Kyi is a failed politician, who has failed to end military rule and who has failed to bring employment to these young men and their parents in the 22 years she has been in politics. The suggestion by the media in the West that despite these manifest political and economic failures, the people still support Aung San Suu Kyi, is perverse, as it is make-believe celebrity politics. We know that the majority of the people no longer support her or the NLD. Aung San Suu Kyi has been sustained by a large celebrity publicity organised by Burma Campaign and now a huge public relations operations backed by tens of millions of US dollars to deceive, mislead the long oppressed people of Burma that she is a capable leader – this is bound to fail. What demonstrable political achievements has she delivered to the people of Burma: of jobs, ending military rule but betrayal and disloyalty?
6. It is important for people to recognise the limits of giving a political leader space to solve political problems or problem. In the case of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi was given enormous support by the people in 1988/89 through to 1995 to end military rule and restore democracy. Also she received big support and money from the West, but her record of
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performance is absolutely nil, while the people's economic and social condition has geometrically become worse and hopelessly dire. More than 20 years is more than a reasonable period in which a political leader should have demonstrated competence and success. Virtually, all objective political analysis have expressed serious reservations about her political judgement to make such an alliance with a military regime, which is continuing to commit as of March 2012 crimes against humanity in the Kachin region. She is hopelessly out of touch with the people's incandescent volcanic rage, which is ready to explode. She has thrown excrement in the faces and graves of the dead 8888 student martyrs who made it possible for her to become General Secretary of the NLD in order to hide her personal indiscretions. Her alliance with the military Junta which is seeking the insurance and support of outsiders to paraphrase George Orwell "It is a lie to say that we are here in Burma to help our poor black brothers rather than to rob them." This is what the betrayal of Aung San Suu Kyi will do for the country unless the people repudiate her that she has no mandate from the people to decide the future of Burma on her own without all other political groups.
7. We ask the Western powers to remain faithful to their democratic values not to recognise the present military dictatorship and demand that it has no governance role at all other than a National Defence Force.
8. The PDP regards the Burma military Junta as having no legitimacy to make agreements with outsiders to sell the assets of our country as insurance for their crimes against humanity and the looting of the country's wealth they committed in the past 50 years.
Central Committee
Parliamentary Democracy Party (Burma)
GHQ (Liberated Area)
E-mail: pdp_office@yahoo.com,
Web page: www.pdpburma.net,
