[ASSAM ] 13/01/2005
01. Asom Sena a historical mistake : AAMSU GUWAHATI, Jan 13 – The All Assam Minorities Students’ Union (AAMSU) has lashed out against the recent decision of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) to raise an Asom Sena. It has described the move as a “historic mistake”. Addressing a press conference in the city today, AAMSU president Nozir Uddin Ahmed said that the decision to raise the Asom Sena is an “emotional and self-destructive” one. “The militant action of the AASU is a threat to democracy,” he said. He said that by taking the decision to raise the Sena, the AASU has unwittingly become part of a greater conspiracy to bring about the destruction of the state. The AAMSU’s strong reaction to the AASU move was evolved and given shape during its executive committee meeting held in the city yesterday. Describing the decision as “unfortunate”, the AAMSU wondered why the State Government is remaining silent when the AASU is trying to usurp the authority of the State. Ahmed said that it is the whimsical actions, like this, of the AASU that the greater Assamese society is fractured today. He said that it is because of the failure of the AASU to reflect the interests of all the ethnic groups of the state that several of the groups have created their own parties and organisations. People of all ethnig groups and communities in the state supported the AASU, till recently. Today, it does not enjoy the confidence of any group, he stated. Ahmed said that the fear and doubts raised by the formation of the Asom Sena has already found expression in the decision of the Koch Rajbongshi community to raise a Chilarai Sena. If the trend continues, Assam could turn into a battlefield of Senas, he said. It could all culminate in a virtual civil war. It is very much possible that the minorities raise their own Sena, though such a decision has not been taken so far, he stated. The AAMSU leadership accused the Congress Government in the state of silently watching the developments. Asking the government to come out with its stand over the issue, Ahmed said that government inaction has allowed the AASU to create the Sena. The Asom Sena would further divide the people of the state and prevent the realisation of a greater Assamese community, he said. The AASU should also make clear the motive behind Asom Sena, Ahmed demanded. The AAMSU has also demanded that the imbroglio over the estimated 3.7-lakh “D” (doubtful) category voters in the state be resolved before the next Assembly elections. Describing it as an obstacle to the democratic process, Ahmed said that measures should be taken immediately to go into individual cases. While those that are confirmed foreigners should be deported, the others should be allowed to exercise their franchise. “The issue should not be kept hanging,” he asserted. There are about 1.8 lakh Muslims who are listed in this category. Speaking on the occasion AAMSU working president Abdul Aziz said that people belonging to the minority community are being unnecessarily harassed in the state on suspicion of their being foreigners. He said that the community has no inclination to encourage infiltration since local resources, particularly land, is already short. He pointed out that the AAMSU has long been demanding the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) keeping 1971 as the cut off year and the issue of identity cards to settle the issue once for all. Indo-Bangladesh border should be sealed properly he said, adding that the border is still easily breached. The AAMSU has demanded that the State Government take immediate steps to rehabilitate the victims of the 1993-94 ethnic riots in the state who are still languishing in refugee camps in Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts. It has warned that it would stage demonstrations in New Delhi to draw attention to this issue. Apart from demanding proper representation for minorities in government jobs in the state, the AAMSU has also staked claim on 30 percent reservation for minorities in the “C” and “D” category posts in the railways. Meanwhile, the AAMSU will celebrate its silver jubilee this year with a two-day schedule of programmes in the city on March 30 and 31. The celebrations will culminate with the holding of a mass convention in the city where some of the top political leaders of the country would also be invited, Ahmed said. Among those expected to attend are West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. http://assamtribune.com/ 13/01/2005 02. Jorhat security reviewed JORHAT, Jan 13 – A high-level police officials’ meeting held at the Sadar PS here today reviewed the security scenario of the district in the backdrop of yesterday’s Kachori Gali blast suspected to be engineered by ULFA extremists. However, no one has been arrested till the time of filing this report, though vigilance was obviously intensified. Though police and bomb experts suspect detonation of a time device concealed in a bicycle, no clue as such has been found. Meanwhile, four among those injured, including a girl child and her mother who sustained major burn injuries and were shifted to the IAF hospital at Rowriah, were reportedly out of danger, though still serious, the SP informed. Union Minister of State for Defence and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bijoy Krishna Handique was also among those who visited the blast site today and also personally took stock of the victims’ condition. Meanwhile, terming recent media reports that Army may be deployed for anti-insurgency operations in Jorhat district as speculation as of now, the Union Minister today opined that police personnel were playing an ‘active’ and ‘effective’ role in Jorhat and Sivasagar districts. Talking to this newspaper over phone, he clarified that, ‘the State Government could seek Army help anytime it felt necessary, though no decision on the matter has been finalised.’ http://assamtribune.com/default.html#Top [NAGALAND] 15/01/2005 03. Infiltration down after fencing of border: Army chief Asserting that fencing of the border and the Line of Control (LoC) had led to “almost complete” stoppage of infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir, Army Chief N C Vij today said the successful operations against northeastern militants on the Indo-Bhutan border had also borne fruit. "Our biggest achievement this year has been fencing of 700 kms in J and K by our army in a record time of 12 months even while facing all kinds of difficulties. I commend the men, officers and commanders of the Northern Command who completed this arduous task despite the threat of cross-border terrorism," Gen Vij said in his address at the Army Day Parade in New Delhi. Due to this and "despite all attempts by the terrorists, today infiltration has been almost completely stopped. This has given the nation a very big psychological advantage and the situation in J and K is progressing towards peace." On the situation in the Northeast, Vij said the joint Indo-Bhutanese army operations last year was "very successful" which led to controlling of the terrorist menace to a great extent. He said the situations in Nagaland and Manipur were also improving fast and "positive changes" are taking place in the overall situation in the Northeastern region. http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/regional/delhi/20050115-0.html 15/01/2005 04. NSCN not involved The Imphal Free Press IMPHAL, Jan 14: The NSCN(IM) deputy kilonser for information and publicity, K Chawang, has asserted that the NSCN(IM) was in no way connected to the assassination of the chief of the Kuki National Army, Vipin Haokip. The NSCN(IM) deputy kilonser, speaking over the telephone from Dimapur, said the group strongly condemned the attempts to drag in its name in the incident, and the reports appearing in this regard in the Imphal media. http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=21757&typeid=2 15/01/2005 05. Still at the receiving end If we are to specifically mention about one particular group of people who really work hard, are dedicated, concerned and think about Manipur, undoubtedly it is the driving community. In a landlocked state like Manipur where possibility of making rail line connection is still a distant dream (Even though the foundation stone for Jiribam-Tupul rail line had been laid, a rail-link to Imphal remains years in the future), roads handle all sorts of transportations and this trend is expected to continue on the same lines for a couple of decades or so. With almost everything which are ferried or imported into the state solely depending upon road communications, the role being taken by the drivers in ferrying goods, passengers or petroleum products is unlimited and highly commendable. However, drivers are one particular community who have been most harassed, targeted and discriminated against by security personnels and government officials on roads and highways on one hand and the underground elements and gangs and looters on the other. Apart from undergoing harassments and tortures particularly by undergrounds elements and gangs and looters, a sizeable number of drivers and handymen have even lost their valuable lives. As people of Manipur continue to depend upon the existing two national highways which connects to the rest of the country, life becomes almost standstill when drivers stop their services of ferrying goods even for a few days. The impact that such protests gives to the Manipur society is very much effective, enormous and immediately felt. Consequently, the people and the society begin to recognize their enormous services and so do the government officials on duty along the highways and underground elements and others. As such the services of the driving community is just beginning to get recognized and being treated as heart and soul of the society. It may be recalled that the driving community of the state, after having borne frequent harassment, tortures and unfair treatments being given to them from different quarters for years together, finally had enough, and rose up as one and staged a massive rally in Imphal on January 14, 1990. The protest was followed by seven days conditioning protest at Old Air Field, Koirengei in which almost entire fleet of heavy vehicles ferrying goods as well as passengers in and outside the state took part and suspended commercial operations. Since then the drivers in the state, recalling the significant protest, have been observing the day as ‘Drivers day’, every year and there is no exception this year too. Taking opportunity of this auspicious occasion, it will be worthwhile to recall the year 1990, 1994, 1998, 2000 and 2001 in which some of the worst incidents of harassment and tortures on drivers and handymen have occurred. The Jubza (Nagaland) incident of 1994, in which a handymen was brutally killed by unknown gunmen, the incidents that occurred at Chakumei, Mao and Lairou respectively in 1998, 2000 and 2001 in which several petroleum tankers were burnt down by suspected underground elements, still terrify the driving community. Although there has been some sort of recognition, understanding amongst general public regarding the services being rendered by the driving community to people and to the society, drivers still continue to remain at the receiving end when something unfortunate incidents happens in this part of the insurgency affected land where kidnapping, killings and subsequent bandhs and blockades are frequent. http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=872&typeid=0 14/01/2005 06. "Nagas have never struggled for integration but sovereignty": NSCN (K) leader Source: Oken Jeet Sandham Kohima, January 14 (NEPS): The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) said, "The people of the north-eastern region should clearly know that the Nagas have been struggling for sovereignty and it will not be a threat to their integrity and political ideologies". Talking to NEPS here over phone from Nagaland's Mon district today, Kughalu Mulatonu, NSCN (K) Kilonser(Minister), explained that the Nagas had been fighting for sovereignty and for which ceasefire agreements were entered into with the Government of India for having a political dialogue. "Because the Naga issue is political and sovereignty is a political issue, whereas this demand of Naga integration is for social and emotional ones," the NSCN (K) leader explained adding, "The Nagas have never struggled for 'integration' but 'sovereignty' and this was clear in the records of the British-India Government and the British Government in London through a memorandum submitted by Naga leaders as early as in 1929". Lamenting that the Naga NGOS had failed to understand whether the Nagas had been fighting for "integration" or for "sovereignty," the NSCN (K) leader said the NSCN (IM) collective leadership's coming to Nagaland from Bangkok via Delhi and asking "views and opinions" of the Naga people was nothing but trying make the "Naga NGOs" a "scapegoat". The NSCN (IM) leaderships had been holding political talks with the Government of India over the years without letting the Naga people know what was the basis and substance of their talks. And after almost collapsing the process with the Government of India, they are now coming to Nagaland to seek their "views and opinions." "It is something ridiculous," Mulatonu said asking, "How can you carry on talks which are going to decide the destiny of the Naga people without letting them know what was in the substance of the talks". Whereas the NSCN (K), unlike its rival, would first seek the mandate of the Naga people, then only it would proceed to political level talks with the Government of India, the NSCN (K) Kilonser disclosed. "There is no hide and seek to this, we are open to all," he stated. Asked when the organization would start political dialogues with the Government of India, Mulatonu said they would start as and when the Government of India "sends a formal invitation." He, however, categorically stated the organization would first seek mandate of the Naga people before commencing any political dialogue with the Government of India. The NSCN (K) leader also alleged that Isaac and Muivah had already become good Indian citizens just before starting political dialogues with Delhi. "I now wonder the two leaders (Isaac and Muivah) of the NSCN (IM) will be on whose side when the NSCN (K) starts political dialogue with the Government of India," he pointed out asking, "Where is the legitimacy for them to represent the Nagas after becoming Indian citizens". With regard to the Naga unity, Mulatonu said Naga unity should be evolved from within but not the kind of theory manufactured and pushed forward by Isaac and Muivah. Because it was for "Indian unity and not for Naga unity," he alleged. http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=5.12.150105.jan05 14/01/2005 07. Talks with Nagas in Feb NEW DELHI: Represented by a team of three ministers, the Union government will hold a substantive round of talks with the major Naga group, National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) led by Issac Chishi Swu and T Muivah in the first week of next month. Naga sources confirmed this on Thursday, stating that their delegation would arrive here on January 30. The peace talks will begin with less contentious issues, well placed sources in the government said. They would mark a beginning, touching upon substantial issues, but would be followed by a recess allowing both sides to take stock of the ground situation. Heading the ministerial team at the talks will be be Oscar Fernandes. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/990975.cms 13/01/2005 08. NSCN (IM)-Centre peace talks in Jan-end NEW DELHI, Jan 13 – Peace talks between the Centre and the NSCN (IM) are scheduled to resume towards the end of this month and for the first time the Government is likely to be represented by a ministerial team, reports PTI. "Talks are scheduled for later this month or early next month," senior NSCN (IM) leader and outfit emissary V S Atem told PTI over phone from Nagaland. He said during the talks, NSCN (IM) will take up with the Government, to be represented by a group of ministers, its memorandum submitted earlier for a peaceful solution to the decades-old Naga problem. When asked whether they would be talking to Ministers of UPA Government, he said "Most likely. But nothing has been conveyed to us as yet." While NSCN (IM) will be represented by Isak Chishi Swu and T Muivah, the Government side is likely to include Ministers of State Oscar Fernandes, Prithviraj Chauhan and S Reghupaty. The UPA Government has in its common minimum programme (CMP) committed itself to holding talks with Naga outfits. The NCSN (IM) and the Centre held talks in December last year after the arrival of the two leaders from Amsterdam. The Naga leaders have been stressing on resolving the problem on the basis of the "uniqueness" of Nagas as according to them peace cannot be there otherwise. NSCN (IM) has been demanding creation of Greater Nagaland in which parts of other neighbouring states, including Manipur, are included. Manipur has strongly opposed any such move and the sentiment was reflected in violent agitations in the State in 2003. http://assamtribune.com/default.html#Top 13/01/2005 09. Indefinite curfew at Moreh IMPHAL, Jan 13 – Indefinite curfew has been imposed at Moreh, India’s gateway to the Southeast Asian countries after eruption of insurgency-related violence that cost the lives of two persons including a Meitei and injuring a tribal in the past 36 hours. Tension ran high at this international bordertown but under control. Indo-Myanmar border at Moreh sector has been sealed for the second day on Thursday, IG (LO-I) R Baral who rushed to Moreh along with additional police force including DIG Range II C Doungel and Chandel SP assessing the situation there told this correspondent over the phone. District Magistrate promulgated the indefinite curfew from 8.30 a.m. on Thursday (today) after armed youths gunned down a Kuki tribal Jalakji Kuki, 25 at Kodong Lairibi, about three km from Moreh at around 7.30 a.m. on Thursday, an official release here said. Jalakji Kuki whose body is now lying at the PHC Moreh is said to be a church leader. Spurt in the killings has taken place after a goldsmith belonging to the Meitei community namely Laishram Panchami, 24, a resident of Heinou Makhong, Moreh was shot dead by suspected activists of the Kuki National Army, an underground outfit operating along the Indo-Myanmar border on Wednesday morning. The trade between India and Myanmar through this border town has remain closed for the first time of this year. Transportation between Moreh and Imphal remained stopped after several people under the aegis of the newly formed Joint Action Committee against the killing of Panchami launched road blockade agitation at Tengnoupal on the NH 39 in Chandel district of Manipur on Wednesday. Over 100 vehicles and passenger buses stranded at Moreh for the second day on Thursday. The first salvo of action has come out after a 25-year-old tribal youth was shot by unidentified persons in front of the office of Hill Tribal Council here at around 5.45 p.m. on Tuesday. The youth identified as Sosol Kuki (25) of Moreh Ward No-1 has been referred to RIMS Hospital at Imphal after first aid at the Community Health Centre, Moreh. A large number of womenfolk of Moreh blocked the road in front of the UBI office and stopped the police from taking the body further. The family members have refused to take back the body too. Strongly protesting the killing, the Kha-Nongpok Apunba Nupi Lup clamped a bandh in Moreh and forced the closure of all shops. Following the IG’s refusal to accept a memorandum of the womenfolk, the representation was subsequently submitted to the executive magistrate of Moreh. The demands of the memorandum include increasing the strength of IRB personnel at Moreh and payment of adequate ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased. http://assamtribune.com/default.html#Top [TRIPURA] 10. Two security personnel killed in militant attack in Tripura Agartala, Jan 14 : Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel including one Sub-inspector (SI) were killed and one severely injured in militant attack in Tripura Thursday evening. The incident took place at around 8.25 PM when 54 battalion CRPF personnel of the road opening party (ROP), while keeping a regular move, were fired upon by unknown militants at Thalibari area under the Killa police station of South Tripura district. The gunfight continued for more than an hour until the militants took advantage of the thick vegetation and darkness and fled. Two CRPF personnel including one SI Govind Singh and constable Kumar Ganpat were killed instantly who another personnel, constable G Vargees who sustained severe bullet injury was rushed to the GB Panth hospital in Agartala. His condition is stated to be serious. Authorities have launched a massive joint search operation to nab the militants. However, there is no report of any loos of life or arrest from the militants. (ANI) http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=60341 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! 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