Insurgency / Nagaland

Imphal, January 02: Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has stated that general secretary of NSCN (IM) Thuingaleng Muivah would not be let off if he comes to Manipur. Addressing mediapersons during a New Year's feast hosted at the Banquet Hall of the 1st MR here yesterday, the Chief Minister who also holds the Home portfolio, however, said that his Government has not yet decided upon any definite action to be initiated against the leaders of the underground outfit which has been stripped of its unlawful tag recently to clear their path for the India visit. NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and...

Imphal, Jan. 1: The Centre’s eagerness to make the NSCN (I-M) leadership feel at home on their return to India has been counterbalanced by the belligerence of Manipur, which today declared that it would not hesitate to arrest the outfit’s general secretary, Thuingaleng Muivah, if he visited the state. Both Nagaland and Assam have withdrawn the arrest warrants against Muivah and NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu to facilitate their return to the country for the next round of peace talks with the Centre.

Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh has, however, refused to make any such concession...

New Delhi, Dec. 26: Angry at being left out of the ongoing peace process, the NSCN (Khaplang) has questioned the importance of its rival, the NSCN (Isak-Muivah), and the Naga Hoho in the context of the Naga movement.

“Let the world and the Naga Hoho know that it was not Isak Chisi Swu (alone) who formed the National Socialist Council of Nagaland. It was formed by Swu and S.S. Khaplang. What Th. Muivah formed was an organisation called Nagalim, to which the Nagas never accorded recognition,” states a booklet published by the “Government of the People’s Republic of Nagaland”, which is the...

NEW DELHI, Dec 24 – The visit of leaders of major Naga insurgent group NSCN (IM), who were expected here this weekend for crucial peace talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, has been postponed by about ten days because of ‘logistical reasons’, official sources said today, reports PTI. NSCN (IM) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah “are expected towards the end of the first week of January,” official sources told PTI. Asked as what were the logistical reasons, the sources said that among them were availability of the top Indian leaders for the talks besides Swu and Muivah...

GUWAHATI, Dec 23 — The Dilip Nunisa-led faction of the Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) has demanded the exclusion of Dimapur from Nagaland, claiming that the commercial town was ceded to the hill state for only 25 years from the time of its creation. According to a leaflect circulated by the militants outfit, which is fighting for ‘Dimaraji’, or self-rule for the Dimasa people within the India state, Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland, was only ‘temporarily’ included in the then Naga Hills district under the Sixth Schedule. DHD says that in 1949, during the framing of the Sixth Schedule, Kuladhar...

NEW DELHI, Dec 22 — Indian passports have been issued to leaders of Naga insurgent group NSCN-IM who are expected to arrive here on December 27 and meet Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee the next day, official sources said here today, reports PTI. While the NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah, who already possesses an Indian passport, will arrive from The Hague, the outfit’s chairman Isak Chishi Swu and three others have been issued passports by the Indian mission in Oslo and will arrive here from the Norwegian capital, sources told PTI.

The Naga delegation will be lodged by the...

NEW DELHI, Dec 19— For the first time in 30 years, major Naga insurgent group leaders, Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, will come to India next week and are likely to hold talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Deputy L K Advani on December 28, highly-placed sources said today, reports PTI. The issue of furthering the peace process with NSCN(I-M) and arrangements for the visit of Swu and Muivah are understood to have been discussed by Centre’s interlocutor K Padmanabhaiah with Advani this evening. The decision to allow the two Naga leaders to come to India follows...

Guwahati, Dec. 16: With jingle bells ringing in the background, the NSCN (I-M) is indulging in a bit of ?greeting card diplomacy?.

The ceasefire monitoring cell of the outfit has begun distributing Christmas and New Year cards bearing the message of ?peace, prosperity and freedom? among members of the Church, NGOs, the army and the media.

The cards are rectangular in shape and display the outfit?s sky-blue flag with horizontal red, yellow and green stripes in the middle and a white star on the top left corner. At the centre of each card is the picture of an angel blowing a trumpet, while the...

In a breakthrough in the Naga peace process, leaders of National Socialist Council of Nagalim (I-M) T Muivah and Isak Swu have voiced their desire to come to India for further talks even as Government today announced extension of the ceasefire with the militant outfit for another year from August 1, reports PTI. The decision to come to India for the first time since the 1997 Centre-NSCN(I-M) ceasefire was taken by the outfit?s leaders during three-day talks with Prime Minister?s special emissary K Padmanabhaiah in Amsterdam which concluded yesterday. The invitation for the dialogue to be held...

Imphal, July 11: The Khaplang faction of NSCN has denounced Th Muivah, NSCN (IM) leader and stated that a non-Naga should not be entrusted to solve the ongoing political crisis between the Nagas and the Government of India. In a release, the NSCN (K) stating that Th Muivah is a foreign national and the elder brother of Meiteis, maintaining that a non-Naga cannot solve the Naga problem. It charged Muivah and Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga, of being birds of the same feather who are striving for personal gains out of the tears of declaring that Tangkhuls do not have Naga citizenship and had...