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IS there a rebuttal to this article?

http://www.firstpost.com/india/bjp-hypo ... 52121.html
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If I am not mistaken, Bodos are a minority. During riots in Assam, the UPA sent a minority commission which probed 3 camps of one minority (3 camps of Muslims, allegedly Banglas) and just one of another (Bodos). Such mistreatment of one minority over another - under very term of minority.

See these reports: link 1 , link 2 .

This is what is done under guise of protecting minority rights wherein certain sections of one minority are not called minority under some qualifications while entire other community is called affected and relief handed out after inspecting & reporting partially and not exhaustively.
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Hitesh wrote:IS there a rebuttal to this article?
http://www.firstpost.com/india/bjp-hypo ... 52121.html
The article is a rabid Muslim's view with no regard to facts published by Outlook, a leftist rag that has a nexus with the peaceful and with the EJs. The author is a peaceful himself who suggested in the past that India should work with the Bangladeshi jamaat! Link
In a nutshell, BJP was ideologically on NDFB’s side when it killed scores of Bengali-speaking Muslims in July-August 2012 and May 2014.
In 2013-14, it was the peaceful-and-EJ pasand UPA that was in power both in Delhi and in Assam. Why no mention of that? At the time, BJP was complaining about illegal foreigners (who the author self-servingly calls "Bengali-speaking Muslims") taking over Indian land abetted by congress in exchange for votes. Is this ideologically wrong of BJP or is it the duty of an Indian political party, every Indian party, to take issue with it? Which party was in the right and which in the wrong?
But the BJP flew into a rage when NDFB trained its guns on Adivasis and the BJP-led central government declared an all-out war against the very same NDFB. BJP had a soft corner for when they were killing Muslims and forcing lakhs of survivors into squalid refugee camps.
Factually incorrect. It was the NDFB(S) splinter that carried out the killings of adivasis with the NDFB coming out strongly against the murders. And in the previous killings, both sides did the killing and both were herded into refugee camps, not just the illegal Bangladeshi Muslims.
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should there be a rebuttal ? we strive to protect our own, adivasis are our own, BD muslims are not.
end of story.
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Centre to link NE region with Hindu pilgrimage circuit
A grand plan to reassert the Hindu roots of the Northeast states is afoot as the government is preparing to map a new Hindu pilgrimage circuit by linking ancient temples and other places in the region that are mentioned in mythology.

According to the plan, the temples in the Northeast related to the mythology of Krishna will be linked with the established pilgrimage circuit in Mathura, Vrindavan and Gujarat.

The Vaishnav tradition of Manipur, Shaiva tradition of Tripura and the three Shakti peeths � Kamakhya in Assam, Jayanti in Meghalaya and Tripura Sundari in Tripura � will also be linked with the overall pilgrimage circuit.

Sources said the Shiva temple at Umananda, the world's smallest river island in Assam, would also be showcased.

According to mythology, Krishna's consort Rukmini was from a local tribe in Arunachal Pradesh.

The state's pilgrimage site of Parasuram Kund and its old tribes which worship Krishna are also expected to find a place in the new circuit.

Following instructions from the PMO, Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma is set to visit the Northeast for 15 days over the next three months.

According to sources, he has been instructed to spend at least 48 hours at each stop.

"I will be going to all the Northeast states.

There is huge potential for pilgrimage tourism which needs to be explored and brought to the fore," Sharma told The Indian Express.

The BJP-led government, which has earmarked Rs 500 crore for its newly-launched National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation and the creation of new circuits, reportedly wants to showcase the Northeast link when it completes one year in office in May.
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Census 2011: Assam records highest rise in Muslim population
*Nationally, percentage of Muslims in total population went up from 13.4% in 2001 to 14.2% in 2011.
*Assam recorded highest increase in share of Muslims, from 30.9% of the state's population to 34.2%.
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The deadline for the ambitious road connectivity project from and between NE and south east asia has been extended to 2020.

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Green - Part of arunachal inhabited by one of the many hill tribes(burmese) and foreign to local arunachal tribes(tibetan). This hill tribe identifies itself as a "naga"(a political term/identity chosen by some hill tribes in this piece of geography)

Yellow - nagaland. Blue - manipur. Orange - mizoram.

All four marked regions administer in some form of autonomy(panchayat-raj of the tribal kind) or a parallel govt(state within a state) or MLAs acting as fronts for militants. This is what makes land connectivity through these regions volatile. The chinese no longer fund the militants in this region like they used to so kidnapping, extortion and taxation is openly followed under the protection of civilian population(handful tribal pockets).

At first, the location of connectivity was said to be moreh(ie through manipur) but now it maybe through mizoram or tripura.
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^^^Pardon me, but the dashed-line around Arunachal is because...?
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^^^Pardon me, but the dashed-line around Arunachal is because...?

...the file originated from wikis svg(vector) files for india page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... ndian_maps

the blank file at this url
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_map_blank.svg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9MbMlmWHg4

Okay, this event is receiving worldwide attention for all the wrong reasons so mentioning it here.

A muslim man was lynched in nagalands capital dimapur. The public overpowered the police station and kidnapped the man who was locked in jail for allegedly raping a sumi girl. They paraded him through the streets for hours. Sometime in the middle of the torture, he was strangled to death with a noose.

The man claims to be from assam but lives in nagaland along with his wife(a women of some naga denomination) and works as a used car salesman. He along with a naga friend drugged a 20 something sumi girl and raped her at different locations. The girl filed a case which has been rocking the naga world for 2 weeks until this happened.

The neighboring states of assam don't trust assam which has been spouting muslim migrants into the neighborhood with indian ration cards. Part of the anger in lynching this man is this migration issue.

Like other states in indian mainland, the NE is secretly suspicious of muslims in waging love jihad(marrying local women) and creating ghetto like spaces.

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Note: Assam and nagaland have a border issue. Assam also has a huge muslim electoral population.
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^^^^ This was a confrontation between the religion of love and the religion of peace. Hence, the outcome is some combination of lovely and peaceful, and thoroughly secular. Most will move on soon.
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Regarding Nagaland., here is a one coverage of the Dimapur rape incident:

http://www.nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews ... Q3Ng%3D%3D

IBI rapes woman in Dmu; organizations condemn

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): :Published on 4 Mar. 2015 12:48 AM IST

In a delayed report, a Naga woman was raped repeatedly at different locations by a non-Naga identified as one Syed Sirf Khan in Dimapur on February 24 night. According to reports, the victim was reportedly called out by one of her known Naga male friend on the pretext of taking her out.

After taking the victim out in a car, the accomplice along with the accused Sayed, who is married to a Naga woman, stopped at Super Market area and bought some drinks. Later, the accomplice on the pretext of meeting one of his friends left the duo behind at Super Market area.

Police sources said that Sayed, in an intoxicated state raped the victim first at Super Market area, at State Stadium, then reportedly at 4th mile area and later at an undisclosed hotel in Dimapur. Sources said that the accused also assaulted the victim, forced her to drink and threatened to kill her if she did not concede to his demands.

The accused, who is a second-hand car dealer and presently residing at 2 ½ mile Dimapur was arrested on February 25 after a complaint lodged by the victim at
Diphupar police station. Police while stating that though the Naga accomplice had not raped the victim, but he was also taken to custody along with the accused Syed Khan. Medical reports have confirmed the rape, police added.

The case has been forwarded to Women Police cell and investigation was on.

NCD-NWHD: Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) treasurer Chingten Konyak and Naga Women Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) president Hukheli T. Wotsa condemned the “rape of a Sumi Naga girl by Syed Sirf Khan” a suspected Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrant(IBI) on February 24. The signatories alleged that the victim was not only raped “multiple times” but “beaten up and threatened with death” during the entire episode. They also expressed sympathy on the rape victim.

Though condemnable, they said the heinous crime only exposed “Naga weaknesses” and asked all Nagas to take responsibility for checking the menace of unabated influx of IBI in the state, otherwise crimes against “women and daughters will only increase.”

NCD and NWHD also said Naga civil society organisations cannot be reduced only to condemn crimes and so long as the government and Naga society refused to wake up, such crimes will continue. In this regard, the signatories lauded Survival Nagaland for launching the movement to tackle the issue of IBIs.

They also appealed on Naga landlords not to rent out vacant plots and buildings to IBIs and that village and colony ensure IBIs were not registered within their areas and district administration and police to erect check gates and strictly enforce ILP. Asserting that no Naga barter away the future of the children for monetary gain and dismayed by the failure of the government to take concrete measures on the issue despite petitions submitted during the past three to four years. They also cautioned Naga families that permitting females to marry IBIs or adopting the latter would not beget anything good.
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MurthyB wrote:^^^^ This was a confrontation between the religion of love and the religion of peace. Hence, the outcome is some combination of lovely and peaceful, and thoroughly secular. Most will move on soon.
It turns out now that the lynched guy was actually innocent. The girl lied.
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^^^^
This has been a trend all over. The girl reports a rape by peace loving man. After due progression, the blame always shifts on the women.
Me thinks, the govt chickened out sensing, the controversy could engulf whole NE.
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This op-ed talks about nagas and their interaction with migration and economy all under the context of past weeks mob lynching. Dimapur used to be a non-naga town under the colonial assam state but absorbed into and after the creation of the nagaland state.
Nagas and their Interaction with Migration and Economy

The people who dragged an alleged rapist out of Dimapur jail last week and beat him to death after parading him through town have been described by the Nagaland police as a "motivated mob'. But underlying the brutal violence is a deep sense of insecurity that the Naga identity is being diluted by steady inward migration. As ethnic identities face a challenge from inter-community marriages and changing demographics, women and the choices they make have become a key focus of this anxiety.

On the face of it, Dimapur is a strangely cosmopolitan city, located in the heart of a hundred ethnicities. This is because the Inner Line Permits that outsiders must possess to enter the rest of Nagaland are not necessary here. The Dimasa-Kachari people claim the town for themselves, as do the Naga.

Dimapur's mix of people isn't surprising. After all, the business hub was established by Marwaris and Muslims in the 1880s. It had its first growth spurt six decades later, as hospitals, schools and railways came up around the time of World War II. The opportunities offered by the new city attracted people from as far away as Bihar. It was only after Nagaland state was carved out of Assam in 1963 that Nagas from Nagaland, Manipur and Myanmar began to move en masse to Dimapur, largely because it offered access to the railways.

Employment opportunities

The development of infrastructure required labour. But the Nagas, who were familiar with a specific tradition of shifting agriculture and production sharing, did not tap these employment opportunities. Instead, the jobs were sought by those who had come from Bihar and Assam, struck by poverty and conflict.

Assam shares a highly porous border with Bangladesh. Some sections of the populations of both territories are culturally similar, speaking the same languages. For several decades, the indigenous populations of North East India have claimed that their lands were coming under threat from Bangladeshi migrants, though many of them actually had identification papers from the border districts of Assam. Since the Nagaland administration does not keep a record of how many inner line permits are issued per year, there is no way to establish the scale of migration to the state.

In 2011, the Naga Council Dimapur, the apex body of the Naga people in Dimapur, set up a Public Action Committee in association with some other Naga groups to identify “illegal immigrants” and issue identity cards to those found legitimate. All Muslim residents of Dimapur were to be identified so that “genuine Indian citizens were not victimised” and labelled as illegal Bangladeshi migrants.

But the Nagaland government put an immediate stop to this exercise, fearing a backlash against Nagas in other parts of India. The chief secretary proposed a solution: “The landholding system among the Nagas is very strong so migrants cannot own an inch of land here. Instead of holding campaigns, people here should be trained to do manual labour. Immigration will automatically stop.”

The preferred solution

This suggestion has been repeated ever since by politicians and bureaucrats alike, even though the issue of how many legal migrants live in the state has never been taken up by the Nagaland government. As a result, right-wing-organisations have been mounting their own exercises to identify illegal immigrants. Their chest beating around the issue played no small role in inflaming Dimapur's residents on March 4 and 5. Their suspicion of so-called outsiders was combined with a lack of reliable information about the specific circumstances leading to a man being accused of rape last week. The mob repeated, without producing any evidence, that the target of their anger was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.

At the rally on March 5, members of some of these organisations repeated that “this would be the last rape an ‘illegal Bangladeshi immigrant’ commits on a Naga woman.” As it turned out, Syed Farid Khan, a businessman living in Dimapur, from Assam, was married to a Naga woman and they had a three-year-old child.

The case seems to be a good illustration of the growing sense of insecurity among some Naga men that people from outside the state are tapping into economic opportunities more effectively than they do. There is vast unemployment in this group. The transition to a monetised economy has encouraged many Nagas to move away from the strenuous job of jhum cultivation towards easier work, or tasks with greater pay from rural employment guarantee schemes. It's a commonplace notion that Naga people will only engage in businesses that reap big returns. As a result, street-side businesses, retail, wholesale and poultry in the region are owned mostly by non-Nagas. All this has led to anxiety about Naga identity, and its survival in the new world of enmeshed economics and politics.

Many inter-marriages

Parallel to this, relationships between Nagas and outsiders are growing more frequent. Many Naga villages are known to accommodate non-Naga male populations in their villages if they take up the culture of the village and live as one of them. In the plain areas of Nagaland, such as Dimapur, more non-locals, many of them Muslims whom locals claim are from Bangladesh, are working on farms owned by Nagas. It is obvious that men and women in these situations will mingle, marry and have children.

In the urban context, a lot of ire has been directed towards Naga women who go out with non-Naga men. The opposite, that is, Naga men choosing non-Naga women as partners are exempt. Muslim males, especially from the Barak Valley region, are looked down upon as being of lower class and social status than the Nagas. Yet they are sometimes able to make a better living than Naga people in Dimapur and other places. Young Naga men spew rage at women through social media, at a loss to understand why Naga men are "not enough" for them. Growing prostitution has not helped the situation, with non-locals (as well as wealthy Nagas) availing of the services of Naga women for cash. The blame for the growing economic insecurity is often heaped on Naga women.

Naga society clings to a myth: that non locals have brought rape and other so-called foreign taints to Nagaland. The easy target is the illegal Bangladesh immigrant (or IBI), who can disappear easily because he is believed to have no proper identity nor responsibility to the place he inhabits. This theory was solidified when a Naga woman was raped in February 2011 by four migrant workers who had no papers to prove their Indian citizenship. However, in a very rare rape indictment in Nagaland, these four were found guilty by the Dimapur District & Sessions Court.

But in Dimapur last week, this rare instance of quick justice was quickly forgotten as some civil society organisations raged on that “IBIs are raping our women!” Young people at the rallies on both days blamed traditional civil society organisations for compromising on rape cases and failing to secure justice for victims. Ironically, the anti-rape rhetoric has been accompanied by a diminishing of freedom for women: women’s organisations recently denounced short skirts, for instance. There is also an alarming lack of leadership to guide locals in a reasonable direction. The most distressing and long-term consequence of these forces has been the fact that violence has become routine in Naga society.

Life after the cease-fire

The call for self-determination in the 1960s had resulted in an organised battle for rights in the Naga lands. For decades, the state responded to these demands through the extreme militarisation of these areas. But after a ceasefire was declared 17 years ago, Naga society has attempted to project a semblance of normalcy under army rule.

The church, in this predominantly Christian state, the civil society organisations and the mass media suggest that demands for self-determination must be expressed within the framework of the state of Nagaland. As a result, young people have no real space to assert their Naga identity beyond song, dance and festivals. State leaders merely vie for political power and central money, lacking any ability to show the way to deal with insecurities about the loss of identity and land.

Small arms have proliferated, so has discontent. Nationalist groups are either disoriented or have become embedded in narrow political aims. There is constant pressure to recognise this situation – living without actual political autonomy – as a state of peace. Scratch the surface and the violence comes pouring out.
http://scroll.in/article/712469/As-Naga ... r-scrutiny

Bangla muslim visionaries project some kind of role for the NE in "greater bangladesh". Everything happening in the NE could be a coincidence or it may not be.
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Home ministry apprehends attacks on NE people in Bengaluru, Pune, Gurgaon

NEW DELHI: In the wake of lynching of a rape accused in Dimapur, the Home Ministry is apprehending backlash against people from the northeast living in Bengaluru, Pune and Gurgaon and asked the state governments concerned to ensure their security.

In an advisory, the Home Ministry today asked Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana governments to be fully alert and ensure security of northeast people.

The communication has been sent by the Home Ministry after it found that a misinformation campaign about the Dimapur incident was going on in social media.


"We suspect that the social media is being used by some anti-social elements to create tension and instigate people to attack people of northeast origin in the three cities," a Home Ministry official said justifying the issuing of the advisory.

The Centre also told the states to deploy adequate security forces in places where sizeable number of northeast people live and roam around in these cities
A premature conclusion as investigation is not yet complete. The news item focuses on the statement of the lynched accused. Yet to be concluded.
Dimapur lynching: It was ‘consensual sex’ not rape, says Nagaland govt report
Nagaland government has conveyed to the Centre that Syed Sarif Khan, who was lynched by a mob in Dimapur last week, did not rape the girl who accused him of assaulting her but they had consensual sex twice.

In a report to the Home Ministry, the state government said Khan had given a statement to police after his arrest on February 24 that he had paid Rs 5,000 to the alleged rape victim after they had sex twice.

According to the report, Khan had also told police that the girl went with him on her free will and had demanded more money from him after the sexual encounters which he had refused. FIR of rape was filed soon after.

“It appears on the basis of Khan’s confession, that it was not rape but consensual sex,” a Home Ministry official quoted the Nagaland government report as stating.

Since his arrest on February 24, Khan was in the Dimpaur central jail. On March 5, a mob broke into the jail, dragged him out, stripped him naked, beat him up, pelted him with stones and dragged him towards the centre of Dimapur town, seven kilometres away. He died from his injuries on the way after which the mob displayed his body from a clock tower.

The Nagaland government also said that investigation into the case was still going on and on the basis of medical examination and forensic evidence, the case could be taken forward.

The medical examination of Khan and alleged rape victim had been conducted after the incident of was reported.

Forensic evidences collected from the alleged rape victim and Khan have been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati for obtaining expert opinion.

Police investigation was also made at Hotel De Oriental Dream (where accused Khan had alleged taken the victim) and CCTV footage were collected with necessary documents, the official said quoting the report.

The earlier report had said that a local Naga youth was allegedly involved in helping Khan in the incident and he too was arrested and sent to Dimapur central jail along with Khan.

However, the mob did not touch the Naga youth when Khan was dragged out of the prison on March 5 and lynched.
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Bomb blast in Imphal, three dead, 15 injured


Last Updated: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 20:07


Imphal: An IED blast took place in Manipur's capital, Imphal, on Wednesday evening leaving three people dead.

15 others were injured in the blast which occured around 5:30 pm at a market place. The injured were rushed to the hospital.

"The blast happened around 5:30-5:45 pm. My son is in the hospital," an eye-witness said as per ANI.

More details are awaited.
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4 Policemen Killed, 2 Injured in Meghalaya Ambush
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Four police personnel were killed today allegedly in an ambush by the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) at Panda reserve forest near Rongara in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills. The rebels also snatched away arms from the security personnel.

The policemen were travelling in a Maruti Gypsy when the militants ambushed them around 10.30am. About 30 cadres had waylaid the police vehicle. They had planted an IED, which did not explode.
A viral video from last year found on the mobile phone of a killed cadre - GNLA caning civilians suspected to be police informants
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bandits like these outfits can be easily taken down if GOI puts some shoulder to the wheel.

that is because their camps do not have any food other than a few reared pigs and chickens. they still need cooking oil, sugar, fruit, vegetable and food grain regularly in large quantities. while they loot from here and there, its too much work for them and not a certain....so they pay suppliers in villages and towns to ship these stuff regularly and maybe a little stretch is carried by hired labour. so a good police network is easily able to back trace them. there camps would be 1-2 km max from the nearest Jeep road.

when the ULFA were taken down in their bhutan camps, same situation as above.
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Northeast India:Target of British apartheid


by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra

Map 7: Tribal Areas Cordoned Off by the British in Northeast India (PDF, 80K)

Continuing terrorist actions and violent demonstrations over the last five decades have turned India's Northeast into a dangerous place. Large-scale introduction of narcotics and arms from neighboring Myanmar (Burma) and China has made this strategically crucial area a potential theater of violent secessionist movements.

Imbued with the British ideology of encouraging ethnic, sub-ethnic, religious, and linguistic identities—as opposed to the identity of a citizen of a sovereign nation-state—both New Delhi and the residents of Northeast India are marching recklessly along the very path prescribed by the British raj in 1862, when he laid down the law of apartheid to isolate "the tribals." While it is not clear how long this fateful road is, there is little doubt what awaits them at the end.
British mindset at work

Since India's independence in 1947, Northeast India has been split up into smaller and smaller states and autonomous regions. The divisions were made to accommodate the wishes of tribes and ethnic groups which want to assert their sub-national identity and obtain an area where the diktat of their little coterie is recognized. New Delhi has yet to comprehend that its policy of accepting and institutionalizing the superficial identities of these ethnic, linguistic, and tribal groups has ensured more irrational demands for even smaller states. It has also virtually eliminated any plan to make these areas economically powerful, and the people scientifically and technologically advanced.

A situation has now arisen in which New Delhi's promised carrot of economic development evokes little enthusiasm in the Northeast. Money from New Delhi for "development" serves to appease the "greed" of a handful and to maintain the status quo. On the other hand, fresh separatist movements bring the area closer to the precipice.

Assam has been cut up into many states since Britain's exit. The autonomous regions of Karbi Anglong, Bodo Autonomous Region, and Meghalaya were all part of pre-independence Assam. Citing the influx of Bengali Muslims since the 1947 formation of East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh in 1971, the locals demand the ouster of these "foreigners" from their soil. Two violent movements in Assam, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Bodo Security Force (BdSF), are now practically demanding "ethnic cleansing" in their respective areas.

To fund their movements, both the ULFA and the BdSF have been trafficking heroin and other narcotics, and indulging in killing sprees against other ethnic groups and against Delhi's law-and-order machinery. Both these groups have also developed close links with other major guerrilla-terrorist groups operating in the area, including the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Muivah) and the People's Liberation Army in Manipur.

Assam, unlike most other areas of the Northeast, was better integrated with mainstream India prior to independence; Assam participated in the national independence movement and contributed much to India's intellectual and cultural wealth. Today, however, instead of encouraging its sons and daughters to train themselves in science and technology, and entrepreneurship, Assam has engulfed itself in mindless bloodletting.

In 1972, Meghalaya was carved out of Assam through a peaceful process. Unfortunately, peace did not last long in this "abode of the clouds." In 1979, the first violent demonstration against "foreigners" resulted in a number of deaths and arson. The "foreigners" in this case were Bengalis, Marwaris, Biharis, and Nepalis, many of whom had settled in Meghalaya decades ago. By 1990, firebrand groups such as the Federation of Khasi, Jaintia, and Garo People (FKJGP) and the Khasi Students' Union (KSU) came to the fore, ostensibly to uphold the rights of the "hill people" from Khasi, Jaintia, and the Garo hills. Violence erupted in 1979, 1987, 1989, and 1990. The last violent terrorist acts were in 1992.

Similar "anti-foreigner" movements have sprouted up across the Northeast, from Arunachal Pradesh in the east and north, to Sikkim in the west, and Mizoram and Tripura in the south. Along the Myanmar border, the states of Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram remain unstable and extremely porous.
London's legacy

The root cause of the problem is the conditions set in place by British rule in the Northeast since 1826 and the formation of East Pakistan in 1947. New Delhi's inability to integrate the region stems from its failure to recognize that the British raj had converted Northeast India into a human zoo, where each tribe was allowed to roam free within its "own territory," but was not allowed to cross the boundaries set forth by their British masters and establish contact with the rest of India.

The British came into the area in the 1820s, following the Burmese conquest of Manipur and parts of Assam. The area had become unstable in the later part of the eighteenth century following the over-extension of the Ahom kingdom, a Burmese-based kingdom that reached into Assam. The instability caused by the weakening of the Ahom kingdom prompted the Burmese to move westward to secure their flanks. But the Burmese action also helped to bring in the British. The British East India Company was lying in wait to see the Ahom kingdom disintegrate.

The Anglo-Burmese war of 1824-26 ended with the British emerging victorious. By the peace treaty signed at Yandabo on Feb. 24, 1826, the British annexed the whole of lower Assam and parts of upper Assam (now Arunachal Pradesh). The Treaty of Yandabo provided the British with the foothold they needed to annex Northeast India, launch further campaigns to capture Burma's vital coastal areas, and gain complete control of the territory from the Andaman Sea to the mouth of the Irrawaddy River.

What were London's motives in this venture? The British claimed that their occupation of the northeast region was required to protect the plains of Assam from the "tribal outrages and depredations and to maintain law and order in the sub-mountainous region." British historians campaigning on behalf of two ex-viceroys, Lord Minto and Lord Curzon, assert that the defense of the British Empire in the northeast frontier was no less important than the northwest frontier, the scene of the so-called Great Game between Britain and Czarist Russia.

But the tribal territories in the northeastern borderland cover 700 miles of the Indian frontier. These tribal belts, from 70 to 100 miles deep, are almost impenetrable by any force from the north, e.g., China. The Indo-Burmese border, though crossed by the conquering Ahoms to capture Upper Kamarupa in upper Assam in 1228, was mountainous and heavily forested. There is little doubt that the British were not concerned about the enemy; crossing such difficult and hostile terrain was simply not possible for either Russia or China.

But for the British East India Company, gaining control in the northeast of India aided in gaining access to southern China's natural wealth. Significantly, in the Treaty of Yandabo it was mentioned that the British East India Company would have access through upper Burma to chart out a direct trade route between India and China through Assam. As early as 1826, a member of the Governor General's Council said: "We may expect to open new roads for commerce with Yunan and other southwestern provinces of the celestial empire through Assam and Manipore."

The annexation of Assam was also designed to "fix" the situation in Bhutan, Sikkim (an independent kingdom till 1975 before it merged with India), Nepal, and Tibet. The British role in Tibet, as reflected in Francis Younghusband's armed invasion of Tibet during 1901-04, the subsequent invasion of Tibet by the Manchu dynasty rulers for the first time in 1910, the fleeing of the 13th dalai lama, and the subsequent influence exerted by the British over the Tibetan and Mongolian lamas, will be treated in future EIR reports. But it should be noted that the accession and isolation of Northeast India was designed to infiltrate Tibet, as part of London's greater geopolitical plan to upset China—which remains London's aim today.
The 'apartheid law'

Following annexation of Northeast India, the first strategy of the British East India Company toward the area was to set it up as a separate entity. At the outset, British strategy toward Northeast India was:

to make sure that the tribals remained separated from the plains people, and the economic interests of the British in the plains were not disturbed;

to ensure that all tribal aspirations were ruthlessly curbed by keeping the bogey of the plains people dangling in their faces; and,

to ensure that the tribal feudal order remained intact, with the paraphernalia of tribal chiefs and voodoo doctors kept in place. Part of this plan was carried out through the bribing of tribal chiefs with paltry gifts.

In 1838, the East India Company assumed charge of the government of Assam, in order to enhance trade and commerce, and sacked the Ahom king, who had been its "protected prince" since 1826. In the early years, the company had often run into trouble with the tribals, and clashes between the two were routinely reported.

The decision to isolate the tribals came about in 1873 through the promulgation of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation. However, the policy of declaring the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA) a secluded area had been advocated long before. Section 2 of the regulation empowered the company "to prescribe and from time to time alter by notification, a line to be called the Inner Line and to prohibit any subject living outside the area from living or moving therein." Thus, the British policy of apartheid in Northeast India was implemented in the tribal area of the District of Lakhimpur in September 1875, and in the District of Darrang in March 1876.

Civil officers could extend their administrative jurisdiction no further than the Inner Line, and the governor-general-in-council prohibited all British subjects from crossing the Inner Line without a pass obtainable from the deputy commissioners of districts.

Then, in 1880, the Frontier Tract Regulation was enacted, which stated that it was expedient "to provide for the removal of certain frontier tracts in Assam inhabited or frequented by barbarous or semi-civilized tribes from the operation of enactments in force therein." It was stated that the regulation would extend to such frontier tracts in Assam as the governor general might designate. The regulation was subsequently extended to cover wider areas in the Northeast.
The Palmerston crowd at work

The British plan to cordon off the Northeast tribals was part of their policy of setting up a multicultural human zoo during 1850s under the premiership of Henry Temple, the third Viscount Palmerston. Lord Palmerston, as Henry Temple was called, had three "friends"—the British Foreign Office, the Home Office, and Whitehall. With the help of these offices and such close associates as Giuseppe Mazzini, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and David Urquhart, Palmerston began to establish British assets throughout Europe and elsewhere. Young Italy was set up in 1831, attracting Garibaldi and Louis Napoleon. Young Poland and Young Germany followed. And in 1834, Mazzini founded Young Europe, billed as the "Holy Alliance of the Peoples." By 1835, a Young Switzerland and Young France were created. There was also Young Corsica, which was the mafia.

The underlying motive behind setting up these groups was evident in Mazzini himself, to whom nationality meant race, an ethnic group with a fixed array of behavior. Mazzini's organizations would demand immediate national liberation on the basis of aggressive chauvinism. Each was obsessed with borders and territory, and each found a way to oppose the concept of a sovereign nation-state. This was Mazzini's racist gospel of universal ethnic cleansing, which was implemented in full in Northeast India in 1873.

The apartheid program eliminated the Northeast Frontier Agency from the political map of India and segregated the tribal population from Assam, as the British had done in southern Africa and would do later in Sudan. By 1875, British intentions became clear even to those Englishmen who believed that Mother England's intervention in India, and the Northeast in particular, was to improve the conditions of the heathens. In an 1875 intelligence document, one operative wrote: "At this juncture, we find our local officers frankly declaring that our relations with the Nagas could not possibly be on a worse footing than they were then, and that the non-interference policy, which sounds excellent in theory, had utterly failed in practice."

Apartheid also helped the British to function freely in this closed environment. Soon enough, the British Crown introduced two other features—proselytization of Christianity among the tribal population and recruiting units of the Frontier Constabulary. The Land of the Nagas was identified as "virgin soil" for planting Christianity. "Among a people so thoroughly primitive, and so independent of religious profession, we might reasonably expect missionary zeal would be most successful," according to the 1875 document, as quoted in the Descriptive Account of Assam, by William Robinson and Angus Hamilton. Missionaries were encouraged to open government-aided schools in the Naga Hills.

Between 1891 and 1901, the number of native Christians increased 128%. The chief proselytizers were the Welsh Presbyterians, headquartered in Khasi and the Jaintia Hills. British Baptists were given the franchise of the Mizo (Lushai) and Naga Hills, and the Baptist mission was set up in 1836.

Along with this peaceful religious proselytizing, the strength of the Frontier Constabulary was increased. During Ahom rule, only nine companies of police were used to keep the bordering tribes under control, but under the new regime each company was raised to battalion strength.

By the time the nineteenth century came to an end, the British were deeply involved in the "Great Game." At this point, Northeast India became the theater of a new gambit. The British plan was to set up a buffer state between China-Central Asia-Russia, and British India. The British split Bengal and joined part of it to sparsely populated Assam, in order to form a Muslim-majority state as the western flank of the buffer state.

The ill-effects of the partition of 1905 began to show up in subsequent years. There was a large-scale migration of people from Bengal into Assam. The Census Report of 1931 says: "Probably the most important event in the province during the last 25 years—an event, moreover, which seems likely to alter permanently the whole future of Assam and to destroy more surely than did the Burmese invaders of 1820 the whole structure of Assamese culture and civilization—has been the invasion of hordes of land-hungry Bengali immigrants, mostly Muslims, from the districts of Eastern Bengal and in particular Mymensingh."

Under this British set-up, enormous animosity was fostered between the Bengalis and the Assamese, as the "tribals" now had reason to harden their stance against the "plains people." In the 1911 census, the Muslim population of the Assam Valley was only 355,320. This number had grown to 1,305,902 by 1941, according to the Census Report, the last taken by the British. A large number of violent incidents in Assam and Meghalaya in recent years are directly related to this settlement issue, and tensions have been further exacerbated by a large wave of Muslim migrants fleeing into Assam from instability in neighboring Bangladesh.

The ultimate apartheid in the Northeast came with the partition of India and the formation of East Pakistan, which in 1971 became the independent nation of Bangladesh. With the partition of Bengal, Northeast India became practically isolated, connected to the mainland through a narrow corridor running between Nepal and Bangladesh. The southern Northeastern states have no railroads and are accessible from the mainland by road, air, and sea. There is no railroad in Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh. The hilly terrain, and New Delhi's continuing faith in the British policy subsumed under a blanket of security concerns, makes the building of railroads extremely difficult. Broad-gauge railroads exist up to Guwahati in truncated Assam, and a meter-gauge railroad is presently under construction to connect eastern Arunachal Pradesh with the mainland by rail. However, all the other Northeastern states, which are now without railroad, will continue to depend on roads, air, and sea to link up with the mainland.

These British policies provide a clue to why Northeast India has remained a bubbling cauldron and vulnerable to secessionist movements. Why the British continued supporting such a policy can only be understood from their own stated policy, as formulated in 1944 by Prof. Reginald Coupland, a fellow at All Souls College in Oxford, three years prior to the partition of India. In a three-volume study of British Indian history, Coupland, a student of Lords Palmerston and Curzon, said: "India is a geographical unity, it is not divided by such physical barriers as have fostered the growth of separate nations in Europe. Its unification under British rule has not only made all Indians feel themselves to be Indians; it has saved India from the fate which political and economic nationalism has brought on Europe. The Partitionists threaten to throw India back to the condition it was in after the break-up of the Mughal Empire, to make another Balkans. This would negate the development of democracy in India. Partition would also prevent a free India from taking her due place in the world as a great Asiatic power; for it would probably mean disruption into several States ranking with Egypt or Siam."
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Mizoram government has been making arrangements to start the final repatriation of around 3,000 Bru families lodged in six relief camps in neighbouring North Tripura district, an official said today.
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Once repatriated, the Bru families would be resettled in their respective villages where they stayed before they migrated to Tripura and if their original village was abandoned, they would be resettled in a village within the same assembly constituency, he said.

Officials of the three districts said that more than 2,000 Bru families were proposed to be resettled in Mamit district, a little over 650 families in Kolasib district and more than 200 families in Lunglei district.
State home minister R Lalzirliana earlier said that a meeting convened by Union Home Ministry in New Delhi on January 30, attended by representatives of both Mizoram and Tripura governments decided that the Brus in the six relief camps in Tripura should be repatriated within six months.

“The meeting also decided that those Bru families who refuse to return to Mizoram during the time-frame should allowed to remain in Tripura, deleted from the voters’ list in Mizoram while the Centre would close down the relief camps and discontinue the free ration provided to the inmates of the camps,” Lalzirliana said.
Brus migrated to Tripura from Mizoram during the later part of 1997 after militants belonging to the erstwhile Bru National Liberation front (BNLF) gunned down Lalzawmliana, a forest guard working inside Dampa Tiger Reserve near Persang hamlet on October 21, 1997.

The first effort to repatriate the Brus from November 16, 2009 was not only hampered by the murder of a Mizo youth, Zarzokima of Mizoram-Tripura border Bungthuam village by Bru militants on November 13, 2009, but also triggered another exodus.

Hundreds of Bru families have been repatriated since 2010 but many of them refused to return to Mizoram due to obstruction from anti-repatriation leaders who made a plethora of demands to the Centre and the state government.
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Photo exhibition on Bangladesh liberation war in Tripura

A three-day photo exhibition titled "1971 Genocide and Torture" has been put up in Agartala by a voluntary organisation of historians, Bangladesh Itihas Samiti (BIS), in collaboration with the state government.

"It's a tribute to the people of Tripura and India. At the same time, we are honouring the three million martyrs and the people of Tripura. I mean it is a homage to the Liberation War of Bangladesh," said Professor of History at Dhaka University, Muntasir Mamun on Monday.
The visiting Bangladesh team has also sought Tripura government's help for a space to display the photographs permanently.
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Agartala: The Indian government plans to set up ready-made garment manufacturing units in each of the eight northeastern states which, among other things, would boost local employment, particularly for women.

This is being done to boost the textile industry in and export of ready-made garments from the region, officials here said.

"The textile ministry has decided to provide Rs.18 crore for each ready-made garment manufacturing unit called 'Apparel and Garment Unit' (AGU) in the northeast," a senior official of Tripura's handloom and handicrafts department told IANS.

He said the government-run National Building Constructions Corp would set up the units in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.
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According to Bihar’s water resources department, the Kosi originates at an altitude of over 7,000 m in the Himalayas. Known as Sapta Kosi in Nepal, the river enters India near Hanuman Nagar in Nepal. It joins the Ganga river near Kursela in Katihar district. The Kosi drains a total catchment area of 74,030 sq km.

Mishra said that investment in flood control measures on the Kosi is harming people more than helping them.

According to Mishra, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) engineer-turned-activist, before and soon after India attained independence, British experts including engineers and top officials were opposed to construction of embankments for controlling floods in the Kosi.

“British engineers have repeatedly stated that Kosi flood water was not a problem, sediment in the river was a challenge and a problem and they were opposed to construction of embankments,” he said.

Mishra said embankments across the world have failed to provide protection and have been breached.

Sinha was of the opinion that “the construction of the embankments over time created a false sense of security among local communities near Kosi”.

He said Kosi is one of the most sediment-laden rivers in the world, making it highly prone to flooding. The construction of barrages, embankments and other structures has restricted the flow and sediment carrying capacity of the river.

“Kosi is still in the same condition and the likelihood of a breach in its embankment still exists,” Sinha said in reference to a study conducted after the breach of the eastern embankment at Kusaha in Nepal in 2008 that caused one of the worst floods in Bihar.
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The FINANCIAL -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India today signed a $300 million loan agreement aimed at improving road connectivity and increasing domestic and regional trade along the North Bengal-Northeastern Region international trade corridor.

The loan is the first under a $500 million multitranche South Asian Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Road Connectivity Investment Program approved by ADB in 2014. The program will build about 500 km of roads in the North Bengal and Northeastern Region of India, helping to resolve the constraint of ‘last-mile’ connectivity between the in-country trunk road network and neighboring countries.

“Improvements in road connectivity in North Bengal and the Northeastern Region will enable efficient and safe transport within India and regionally with other SASEC member countries,” said M. Teresa Kho, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission, who signed the loan agreement on behalf of ADB.

The program was endorsed by the SASEC trade facilitation and transport working group at a meeting in Singapore on 30 October 2013, according to ADB.
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Kohima, March 26: Four Assam Rifles personnel were injured when suspected militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) opened fire at them here, while four civilians were injured in Wokha when an unidentified man hurled a bomb at a grocery shop this morning.

Sources said the Assam Rifles men were waiting to take a bus to the 19 battalion headquarters for a medical check-up when the militants opened fire at the gate of the Indira Gandhi Stadium around 7 this morning.

The militants escaped after the shootout. The injured were shifted to Oking Hospital and Naga Hospital.

The 19 Assam Rifles battalion has one company at Indira Gandhi Stadium and another at the 5 sector Assam Rifles headquarters, 5km away. The area was cordoned off after the incident.
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Agartala, Mar 27: If there is any turmoil in Bangladesh, it also affects India's peace, stability and integrity, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said. "If there is chaos and trouble in neighbouring Bangladesh, these also affect India's peace, stability and integrity," Sarkar said during his address at the Bangladesh Independence Day and National Day celebrations organised by the Bangladesh diplomatic mission here on Thursday, Mar 27 night.

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During the colonial rule, the british were looking east and had suddenly found themselves chipping away on the outer edges of the oriental landscape; using tribals in NE as a trojan to its east. For the first time, the tribals(once isolated) found themselves to be of valuable use for someone. 1947 forced a british exit but the eastern frontier of the NE is still stuck in time, in 1947.
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Mizoram: Militants ambush MLA’s convoy, kills 3 policemen

Three policemen were killed and two others injured when militants opened fire on a convoy accompanying a group of MLAs near Mizoram’s northern border with Assam and Manipur.

MLAs R L Pianmawia, Lalawmpuii Chawngthu and Lalthanliana, all members of the committee on government assurances, were being accompanied by a team of police and several officials while they were visiting the area.
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Police suspect the militants are cadres of the Hmar People’s Convention (Democrats) or HPCD, a group based in southern Manipur.

The ambush took place near Zokhawthiang (formerly known as Kani), a village close to the Tuiruang river that separates the three states, shortly after 8 am on Saturday, police sources said.

The area where the ambush took place has weak communications signals and more details are still being awaited, sources said.

Sakawrdai Sub-Divisional Police Officer Zarzoliana is being airlifted to Aizawl for emergency operation. He was shot in the abdomen. The dead policemen have been identified as Sakawrdai PS officer-in-charge Zaramthar, his driver Chuailova and Hmangaihmawia of the Mizoram Armed Police.

The police is looking into whether Malsawmkima, who was with the Mizoram Armed Police and who is believed to have run away with two rifles to join the HPCD last year, may have had a role in the ambush.

From an unconfirmed report, MLA RL Pianmawia put up his hands and called to the militants that they were surrendering. After this the militants stopped firing and rounded up all the policemen’s guns.
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Blast in nagaland
Kohima, March 26 2015: Another bomb blast this morning at the heart of Wokha Town has inflicted injuries to three women and one nine-month old baby boy.
4 jawans injured in attack in Nagaland
Kohima: Four Assam Rifles jawans were injured as unidentified armed miscreants attacked the Company Operating Base and outpost of 19 Assam Rifles here on Thursday.
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2 Assam Rifles men killed in Manipur ambush
IMPHAL, March 31 – Two personnel of the 44 Assam Rifles were killed while one sustained injury in an ambush by suspected militants near the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Ukhrul district today.
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Suspected Naga militants ambushed an army convoy in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday morning, killing three jawans and injuring three others.

A defence spokesperson said the convoy of four vehicles was ambushed around Topi near Khonsa. The convoy was moving from the army’s base at Dinjan in eastern Assam to Longding in Arunachal Pradesh.

"The militants opened fire indiscriminately killing three jawans on the spot and injuring three others. The injured were shifted to a base hospital," he said.

Both the Khaplang and Isak-Muivah factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland are in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang, Tirap and Longding districts bordering Myanmar. The army suspects the NSCN-K had carried out the ambush though the NSCN-IM is not beyond suspicion.

The NSCN-IM had declared ceasefire in 1997 and the NSCN-K followed suit in 2001. But the ambit of the ceasefire is within the geographical boundary of Nagaland.

The two NSCN factions have a degree of control over the Changlang, Tirap and Longding districts, strategic for movement of rebels to and from camps in Myanmar. They have been fighting each other besides the armed forces in these districts.
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Militant outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) would hold tripartite talks with the central and the Tripura governments on April 4, an official said here on Thursday.
"A tripartite meeting between officials of the central and Tripura governments and leaders of NLFT militant group is likely to be held in Shillong on April 4," a top official told IANS.

"The NLFT led by its self-styled chief Biswamohan Debbarma expressed its willingness to the central government a few months back to hold talks. The union home ministry sought opinion of the state government in this regard. The Tripura government gave positive response," a top Tripura home department official said on condition of anonymity.

The Tripura government told the union home ministry that it welcomed any move of militants to come to the mainstream of life after eschewing violence, the official said.
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Guwahati: The voting for the 40-member Bodoland Territorial Council is scheduled to take place in Assam on Wednesday, amidst tight security.

The polling will take place across 2,778 booths in the Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri districts of the state. Of these, 678 polling booths have been identified as very sensitive while 996 booths have been identified as sensitive.
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Ceasefire agreement between GoI and NSCN(K) has come to an end as the later has refused to extend it.

Rebel cadres belonging to NSCN(K) who wish to extend ceasefire have broken ties with (K) and have floated their own outfit which is being called NSCN (WT), short for wangtin and tikhak.

NSCN(K) leaders and cadres mostly operate from myanmar where they have a ceasefire agreement with the burmese govt.
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Itanagar: Citing a serious law and order problem along the border with Assam, the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers' Act (AFSPA) has been extended to 12 districts of Arunachal Pradesh for one year by the Centre.

Earlier, Tirap, Changlang and Longding, where Naga insurgents are active, and the 20km belt along the state's borders with Assam, were under the Act.

This time, the only districts that seem to have escaped the law are Tawang, Upper Subansiri, Kurung Kumey, Kra Dadi, Dibang Valley, Upper Siang and Anjaw.

Sources said the state government is yet to receive the notification from the Centre.
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After Long Peace, Mizoram Facing Terror Again
Nearly 30 years after Mizoram embraced peace, there are signs that terrorism may be raising its “disturbing” head in the northeastern state bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Mizoram was the first and the only state in India to get Rs.182.45 crore from the central government in 2000-01 as “Peace Bonus” for keeping peace after decades of insurgency. That record was shattered on March 28 when the Manipur-based Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) ambushed a police party in Mizoram and killed three policemen and seriously wounded six others.

The dead included Sub Inspector Zoramthara Khawlhring.

The incident occurred when a police party was accompanying a state assembly team led by deputy chief whip R.L. Pianmawia in Aizawl district. The area is in northern Mizoram bordering Manipur and Assam.

The terror attack, which occurred after many years of peace in the state, forced Mizoram to approach the union home ministry to ban the HPC-D. It also sought that the state’s northeastern part, where the Hmar tribals are concentrated, be declared a disturbed area under the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958.

“The recent attack brings to the fore a disturbing trend which had for the last few years been largely ignored,” security analyst Manas Paul told IANS.[
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Security to be tightened along Tripura border
To ensure trouble-free elections to the Tripura tribal autonomous council and in view of the current political turmoil in neighbouring Bangladesh, security along the India-Bangladesh border and inter-state border with Assam and Mizoram would be further tightened, an official said here on Friday.

Polling for the 30-seat Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) will be held on May 3.

"In view of the unrest and political turmoil in Bangladesh and upcoming polls in TTAADC, extreme vigil would be maintained by the state police and BSF (Border Security Force) along the inter-state and international borders," Inspector general of police (police control) Nepal Das told IANS.

He said: "We are keen to hold free, fair and peaceful elections in the TTAADC and also to maintain security along the state's borders to prevent entry of any inimical elements."

The official also said that the state government has asked the BSF authority to deploy additional troopers along the India-Bangladesh borders and further tighten the vigil in the frontiers.

Das said special security measures are being taken -- especially in the areas where the border is unfenced.

"BSF has been asked to intensify patrolling along the border round-the-clock. The Tripura State Rifles (TSR) have intensified operations as a second line of defence."
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Government acting on incidents against northeast people: President
President Pranab Mukherjee said here on Friday that the central and Delhi governments have taken action to prevent “unacceptable” incidents involving people from the northeast region.

Addressing the 10th annual convocation of Mizoram University, Mukherjee said the pluralistic character of the nation should not be weakened by such “unacceptable events”.

“Some time back, the capital city of Delhi witnessed certain tragic incidents of attacks on young people from the northeast.

“Both the central and the Delhi government have taken firm action by not only apprehending and punishing the accused but also putting in place measures to ensure that such incidents do not recur,” the president said.

“We must ensure that the pluralistic character of our nation and her thread of unity…. are not weakened by such unacceptable events,” he added.

A committee, headed by retired IAS officer M.P. Bezbaruah set up by the union home ministry following some attacks against people from the northeast in Delhi, had said that over two lakh people have migrated to Delhi from the northeastern region between 2005 and 2013.

About 86 percent of them have faced some form of racial discrimination, it added.
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