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| Nagaland: Crimes against Humanity must be stopped |
| 2008-08-10 14:27:00 |
Press ReleaseNaga International Support CenterAmsterdam, August 10 2008Those in Nagaland responsible for committing these Crimes against Humanity must be apprehended; those responsible for harboring the culprits must be held accountable In sharp contrast to Peoples themselves the Government of India is convinced that the Nagas of the states of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur are part and parcel of India. With respect to that the Government of India is responsible for upholding justice and peace. Yet, it tolerates designated camps of fighters with which it has agreed to a cease fire and let them operate freely; even if these fighters openly declare war on an entire tribe.The Khaplang Group served the Tangkh...
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| Influx posing threat to tribals: Daimari |
| 2008-08-09 14:29:00 |
GUWAHATI, Aug 9 – The influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh poses a grave threat to the indigenous or tribal population of Assam, which actually undermines their cultural and economic identity. However, inflow of non-indigenous people from within the country too could play an equally negative role in damaging the cultural, linguistic and material basis of the indigenous communities. This was a view expressed by Anjali Daimari, the advisor to Indigenous Women’s Forum of North East India (Assam Committee) while addressing a press conference to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People.“Both the threats have to be recognized because of their ramifications on a number of key areas, including possession of land and property, language and culture, and livelihood op...
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| Resentment against violence growing in NSCN & NNC |
| 2008-07-07 08:25:00 |
By Jagdamba MallIn the process Naga society has suffered a huge loss in terms of life and property without any gain. If various survey reports informed through media from time to time pertaining to the adverse psychological effect on adolescent mind of young generation of insurgency affected communities are correct, the vital section of victim society is very badly affected. The tough stand taken by Smt Indira Gandhi after the collapse of Cease-fire Agreement, 1964 and signing of Shillong Accord 1975 under compelling circumstances to avoid the further loss of Naga lives, caused despair and delusion in some hardcore demagogues in Naga guerilla camp. The violent killings between warring factions in Nagaland find some similarity to what has already happened in other parts of the world or in s...
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| Obama says he's 'been very consistent' on Iraq |
| 2008-07-05 19:07:00 |
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama, speaking on board his campaign plane as it headed to St. Louis on Saturday, continued to defend his position on Iraq -- and questioned reporters' parsing of his words."I am surprised at how ... the press ... I'm not trying to dump on you guys, but I'm surprised at how finely calibrated every single word was measured," Obama said."I wasn't saying anything that I hadn't said before. That I didn't say a year ago. Or when I was a U.S. senator. If you look at our position, it's been very consistent. The notion that we have to get out carefully has been a consistent position," he said."The belief that we have a national security interest in making sure Iraq is secure, I've been s...
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| Two killed in Naga fratricidal clashes |
| 2008-07-05 17:30:00 |
OUR CORRESPONDENT Kohima, July 5: Clashes between the Isak-Muivah and Khaplang factions of the NSCN near Dimapur claimed two more lives today. The killings come close on the heels of visits by special secretary (internal security), M.L. Kumawat and joint secretary (home) in-charge of Northeast, Naveen Verma, to Nagaland to review the security situation in the state. The two home ministry officials also met chief minister Neiphiu Rio.The NSCN (K) today alleged that heavily-armed NSCN (I-M) cadres had attacked its hideout at Hetoi village in Dimapur district killing one of its cadres. A civilian was also killed in the exchange of fire that lasted for nearly an hour. Police have confirmed the deaths but the identities of the victims are yet to be ascertained. The NSCN (K) cadre died on the sp...
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| Northeast's first IIM launched Friday |
| 2008-07-04 10:03:00 |
Shillong, July 4 (IANS) The seventh Indian Institute of Management started imparting lessons here Friday, becoming the first IIM in the northeast. Meghalaya Chief Minister Donkupar Roy would do the formal inauguration in the evening. The institute, which would connect the region with the world's growing marketing and management realities, is named Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management. It will functioning in the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) campus for the time being.'This is a dream fulfilled for the people of the region and we hope this prestigious institute would contribute to the manpower of tomorrow, not only in the northeast, but also in the whole country and abroad,' the chief minister said. IIM Shillong is the seventh IIM in the country after Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kol...
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| Unemployment, crime are HIV fodder in Northeast India |
| 2008-07-03 11:01:00 |
New Delhi: Northeast India generally brings to mind two diametrically opposite images — the first, a picturesque region abundant in forest and rivers, and the second, a terrain bludgeoned by bullets, bombs and bloodshed. Geographically knitted to the mainland by a slender land chain called the Chicken’s Neck, the northeast has always remained a politically isolated mass. Inhabited by heterogeneous tribes and sub-tribes of Aryan and Mongoloid origins, the region has been rocked for decades by insurgency, with several terrorist groups either demanding sovereignty or separate statehood. Unabated violence has exacerbated under-development in the region and has fostered socio-economic problems such as unemployment, ris...
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| Three bidders jockey for north-east Indian air rights |
| 2008-07-03 04:24:00 |
INDIA: Up to three airlines are bidding for the right to operate a dedicated regional airline for India's north-eastern states, the Press Trust of India reports. One of the bidding airlines is state-run Alliance Air (now renamed Air India Regional after its merger into Air India), the other two are Universal Empire and Ace Airlines . "Three airlines have participated in the tender for the regional airline," Minister for Development for North-Eastern Region Mani Shankar Aiyer told the PTI. The government wants the airline to use Guwahati as its hub and serve 11 regional airports currently operational in the region, including Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Jorhat, Silchar, Dimapur, Imphal, Agartala, Aizawal and Bagdogra. In return, the winning airline will be eligible to receive government subsidies fro...
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| Prime Minister releases North East Vision 2020 document |
| 2008-07-03 04:19:00 |
NEW DELHI, Jul 2: The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said that all-round development of the north eastern states was the topmost priority of the government and announced its decision to link all state capitals in the region by rail lines. Emphasizing that connectivity and infrastructure development was the cornerstone of development in the region, the Prime Minister said the government had taken several initiatives to bridge the infrastructure gap including an ambitious road-building programme for the north east region. He was addressing the ceremonial function of the release of the North Eastern Region Vision 2020 Document at the plenary hall of the Vigyan Bhawan in New...
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| Genetic study finds malarial traits in Northeast |
| 2008-07-03 04:18:00 |
Shillong, July 3 (PTI) A study by the Anthropological Survey of India (ASI) on the genetic characteristics of the inhabitants of India's Northeast considered as a 'malaria zone' - may open up a fresh lead among researchers to develop a new drug for the mosquito-related disease.The ongoing study has found that deficiency of enzyme G-6-PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase), which helps red blood cells (RBCs) function normally is a common sex-linked trait in the region, M Arabind Singh of the ASI's Northeast Regional Centre told PTI on the sidelines of an exhibition here.G-6-PD is one of many enzymes that help the body process carbohydrates and turn them into energy. It also protects red blood cells from potentially harmful ...
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| ALL NORTH EASTERN DISTRICTS TO HAVE REVAMPED MALARIA CONTROL SET UP |
| 2008-07-03 04:17:00 |
The Union Health & Family Welfare Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss has said that North Eastern States are a priority area for revamping of health infrastructure. Keeping in mind the special needs of the region, the Central Government is actively considering revised guidelines for North East with regard to establishment of medical colleges, the Minister assured the Meghalaya Chief Minister, Shri Donkupar Roy who called on him late evening yesterday. Dr. Ramadoss said that the relaxation regarding number of beds and patient load are under consideration for establishing medical colleges in North Eastern region. With regard to the State’s request for change in selection criteria for North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, the Minist...
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| All northeast capitals to be linked by rail: Manmohan |
| 2008-07-02 18:06:00 |
PUSH FOR DEVELOPMENT: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with Minister for Development of North Eastern Region Mani Shankar Aiyar, releasing the ‘North Eastern Region Vision 2020’ document in New Delhi on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: All capitals of the northeastern States will be linked by rail, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday. Infrastructure deficiency in the region remained a major concern. So infrastructure projects there were given the status of “national projects” with a special funding pattern. “Airports are being modernised and new ones are being built. An ambitious programme of road building has been taken up under the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme and Rs. 31,000 crore is being invested in roads in the 11th Five Year Plan period. There are rela...
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| France: Guilty-by-Association Prosecutions Violate Rights |
| 2008-07-02 15:38:00 |
Improve Criminal Justice Safeguards, Provide Legal Counsel for Terror Suspects (Paris, July 2, 2008) – In its effort to fight terrorism, France routinely arrests and prosecutes people for being associated with possible terror suspects, undermining international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.“Using the criminal justice system is the right way to fight terrorism,” said Judith Sunderland, Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “But prosecuting people because of who they know and what they think sacrifices basic rights, and that is wrong in principle and dangerous in practice.” The 84-page report, “Preempting Justice: Counterterrorism Laws and P...
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| Centre to review Naga truce |
| 2008-07-02 02:43:00 |
NEW DELHI, July 1 – Up-set with gross violation of the ground rules in Nagaland, the Ministry of Home Affairs has rushed a team of officials to Dimapur to hold meeting with the ground rule monitoring group with both the factions of the NSCN. The Central team headed by Special Secretary (Internal Security), M.L.Kumawat and joint Secretary (North-east), Navin Verma visit comes after a series of factional killings rocked the State. The Home Ministry team is slated to hold separate meetings with NSCN (I-M) and Khaplang factions.The mechanism worked out to monitor the implementation of the ground rules, include a ceasefire monitoring group with I-M faction and a ceasefire supervisory board with rival Khaplang faction. The meeting is crucial in the backdrop of the recent incident at Vihokhu wh...
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| A Microsatellite-guided Insight Into The Genetic Status Of The Adi Tribe |
| 2008-07-02 02:42:00 |
ScienceDaily (July 1, 2008) — North-east India has always been a hotspot for population geneticists due to its unique, strategic geographic location and the presence of linguistically, culturally and demographically diverse populations practicing varied occupations (from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture).There are an estimated 532 tribal communities who inhabit the different geographical regions, who vary in their morphological features and ethnic origins (Australian, African, East Asian) of varied cultural features and who belong to three linguistic families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman). These are important in understanding the genetic history and peopling of the Indian subcontinent, and to derive further insights into the antiq...
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| Chiang Mai conclave symbolic, say state`s Naga MLAs |
| 2008-07-01 04:15:00 |
Newmai News Network Imphal, Jun 30: Six Independent Naga MLAs in Manipur have expressed that the recently concluded peace conclave convened by Forum for Naga Reconciliation and participated by both the NSCN-IM and NSCN-Unification representatives at Chiang Mai in Thailand, was a symbolic step to end divisive forces "within and outside".The six Naga MLAs are Morung Makunga, Awangbow, Danny Shaiza, K.Raina, W.Keishing and Dr Khasim Ruivah.In a joint statement, the Indepenent MLAs said, "Rising above the bitterness that exists in every Naga family, the initiative of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation to resolutely address reconciliation process to a rightful conclusion deserves appreciati...
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| ZU-AMN says UNC ignoring it |
| 2008-06-30 00:51:00 |
Newmai News Network Imphal, Jun 29: Even as the United Naga Council (UNC) is all set to hold its general assembly at Senapati headquarters on July 2, the Zeliangrong Union, Assam, Manipur and Nagaland (ZU-AMN) has raised strong objection against the UNC saying that the latter has been ignoring the Zeliangrong body in many ways.The ZU-AMN also accused the Acting President of UNC as responsible for the current state of affairs.The ZU-AMN was irked when the UNC has been inviting the Zeliangrong Boudi (ZB) to various occasions of the UNC while ignoring the ZU-AMN."ZU-AMN had made a complain on February 26 this year to the UNC for not inviting the ZU (AMN) in the UNC functions and meetings. The 83 years old ZU (AMN) has been an original component unit of UNC ...
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| 7 separatists killed by rival group in India's troubled northeast |
| 2008-06-27 06:20:00 |
GAUHATI, India (AP) - At least seven people were killed in fighting between rival rebel factions in India's remote northeast, police said Friday.A group of Naga rebels attacked a rival group's camp with automatic weapons near Dimapur, Nagaland state's commercial hub, on Thursday, superintendent of police Leiremo Lotha said.Fighting between Naga rebel groups has left at least 40 people dead in Nagaland state in the past six weeks, Lotha said.Five of the seven victims have been identified as members of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Unification) faction, he said.The Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland claimed responsibility for the attack.«Our cadres set fire to all the vehicles at t...
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| Naga lawyers unite against ‘Profiling’ |
| 2008-06-25 05:19:00 |
| New Delhi, June 24 (Agencies): The Naga Lawyers’ Guild, Delhi, has served a legal notice to the management of a lounge bar in GK-1 for allegedly refusing entry to a Naga woman photographer because she did not have the “right profile”. The notice has categorised this incident as a “willful and deliberate discrimination on the basis of caste, sex, creed and region”. The notice also says the management of the bar — Urban Pind — asked the woman to reveal her nationality. “When told she was an Indian from the North-East, she was bluntly refused entry,” the notice reads.Bar owner Kashif Farooq, however, said he was yet to receive any legal notice. He denied the charges against the management saying, “Profiling
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| NSCN(IM) belittles common struggle proposition-II |
| 2008-06-21 15:15:00 |
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News NetworkDimapur, June 21: The NSCN-IM also hurled another allegation that UNLF talked of common enemy but feigned ignorance of the Kukis once used by the common enemy to fight against the Nagas which eventually set off the ethnic war."In the same fashion, the UNLF is finding pleasure to rake up the Naga-Kuki ethnic clash when it talked of common struggle.This is derogatory of UNLF's stand.Is this an example of revolutionary sincerity? What is common goal or common struggle when there is no revolutionary credibility and honesty? Pretension is not the trait of honest revolutionary movement.A risky affair it will turn out to be when blindly taking the plunge," cautions the NSCN-IM statement."All said and done, NSCN never believes in force union or force...
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| Centre seeks reports on Naga group clashes |
| 2008-06-14 22:31:00 |
Nirendra Dev NEW DELHI, June 14: Amid sporadic turf war among various Naga militant factions claiming several lives, the Centre has sought reports from the state governments in Nagaland and Manipur and directed them to take corrective steps. A letter was sent to the chief ministers, Mr Neiphiu Rio and Mr O Ibobi Singh, late last month seeking detailed reports on the growing number of group clashes. In the latest round of factional fighting, two people, including one home guard personnel, were killed near Kohima super market area yesterday. The Centre now intends to undertake a joint crackdown on militant groups along with Myanmar. The Indian government recently sent to Myanmar a list of Indian militant groups ostensibly operating in that country. Besides ...
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| Ethiopia: Army Commits Executions, Torture, and Rape in Ogaden |
| 2008-06-12 14:22:00 |
Donors Should Act to Stop Crimes Against Humanity(Nairobi, June 12, 2008) – In its battle against rebels in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Ethiopia's army has subjected civilians to executions, torture, and rape, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The widespread violence, part of a vicious counterinsurgency campaign that amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, has contributed to a looming humanitarian crisis, threatening the survival of thousands of ethnic Somali nomads.The 130-page report "Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the Ogaden Area of Ethiopia's Somali Regional State," documents a dramatic rise in unchecked viol...
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| Naga bodies reiterate support to peace process |
| 2008-06-06 17:37:00 |
Source: The Sangai ExpressImphal, June 06: The United Naga Council (UNC) and State's Naga Tribe Hoho along with sister organisations have reaffirmed support to the collective leadership of the NSCN (IM) in sustaining the ongoing peace process for an honourable settlement of the Indo-Naga political issue.Representatives of the UNC, Hoho and 14 constituent bodies on May 31 attended an emergency consultative meeting at Senapati district headquarters wherein it was unanimously resolved to 'fully back' the collective leadership in taking forward the ongoing negotiation for solution of the decades old issue.According to a joint statement of these units released today, the meeting 'once again reaffirmed full support to the colle...
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| UG cadres “flushed out” from Dimapur areas |
| 2008-06-06 17:20:00 |
An NSCN (IM) functionary negotiating with Dimapur DC and SP in the presence of Dobashis during the stand-off between the DDCG and NSCN (IM) at Wungram Colony, Purana Bazar on June 6. (Morung Photos/Zakir) Dimapur | June 6 : The Dimapur District Co-ordination Group assisted by around 800 armed police, IRB and Assam Rifles personnel today conducted a thirteen-hour ‘flush out’ exercise in different colonies of Dimapur town and also in the nearby villages where presence of armed underground cadres were reported. The cadres were forced out from the civilian areas. Today’s exercise comes in the wake of the government’s directive to the underground cadres to vacate civilian areas by June 10 and similarly, the directive from the Dimapur administr...
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| A Call for Statesmanship |
| 2008-06-05 18:41:00 |
We live in a time where insanity has become the ruling norm. Though there is an air of complacency, indifference and fear, it will be fair to say that people are tired and quite fed up with the direction that Naga society is headed. The rich get richer while the poor, poorer; and there is lack of democratic accountability, complete absence of self-governance and the vicious cycle of factional violence is taking a serious toll on people. Then there are the every day headaches of having to face corruption at every level of society and the tragic consequences on human life caused by the political chasm which has so affected the patterns of relationship and understanding thereby reinforcing existing suspicion and ‘isms.’ We seem to be living in multiple realities. One is the reality on the...
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| Naga militant gunfight caught on camera |
| 2008-06-05 10:41:00 |
Nagaland, a predominantly tribal north-eastern state, has witnessed militancy and lawlessness for almost four decades and the situation is getting from bad to worse. In a startling exposure, TIMES NOW lens captured exclusive visuals of fighting in Nagaland between rival militant factions -- Isaac Muivaah and Khaplang -- on the streets of Dimapur.The visuals show the dominant Isaac Muivaah faction of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) readying to fight it out with the rival Khaplang faction. A soldier of the Khaplang faction was seen tied up as the rebels moved towards the village near Dimapur.The exclusive visuals captured by TIMES NOW on Wednesday (June 4) depicted pictures of militant factions being involved in a bloody gunfight in the Seithikima area, about 17 km off N...
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| Muivah doesn't rule out "one to one" interaction with NSCN-Khaplang |
| 2008-06-05 04:23:00 |
New Delhi, June 4: Adding another dramatic twist to factional clashes, confrontation and reconciliation in Ngaland, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isac-Muivah) General Secretary, Thuingaleng Muivah has not ruled out a one to one interaction with the Khaplang faction for the greater cause of "Naga unity".In an exclusive interview with ANI, Muivah ,who has been in New Delhi for the last one month in connection with Naga peace talks, acceptedhe recent reports of the NSCN(IM) Chairman Isac Chisi Swu's telephonic interaction with the NSCN(K) Chairman S S Khaplang sometime ago.For the first time in the last twenty years the two rival factions have established any sort of communication.When asked by ANI whether this interaction is a sign of the ...
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| CHINA: 'Food Scarcity Creating New World Order' |
| 2008-06-04 17:06:00 |
BEIJING, Jun 4 (IPS) - Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world, says the founder of the Earth Policy Institute. Recent manifestations of national food insecurity like export restrictions imposed by some grain-producing countries are the troublesome portents of an "entirely new chapter in the book of food security," Lester Brown told foreign correspondents in Beijing on Tuesday. "We are in the midst of the most severe food crisis in the world’s history," Brown said. "This is not your mother’s food shortage... but a chronically tight food situation, a serious and long-term problem.’’ Po...
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| Online registration to be required for visa-free travel to U.S. |
| 2008-06-04 04:16:00 |
WASHINGTON (TEN) - Travelers from England, France, Germany, Japan and about two dozen other "Visa Waiver" countries will be required to register electronically before boarding a plane or boat to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.DHS will begin accepting applications via a secure Internet site on August 1, and will require visitors to use the Internet system beginning January 12, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. The move will help U.S. authorities vet foreign visitors, he said. The requirement does not apply to U.S. citizens traveling overseas.The announcement is the latest change to the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens of 27 countries -- most of them European coun...
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| Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee |
| 2008-06-04 04:12:00 |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In what he called a "defining moment for our nation," Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party. Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday told supporters he will be the Democratic nominee. Obama's steady stream of superdelegate endorsements, combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday's primaries, put him past the 2,118 threshold, CNN projects"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," he said."Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of th...
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| 12 rebels killed in India's northeast: Police |
| 2008-06-04 04:01:00 |
GUWAHATI, India (TEN) — At least 12 separatist rebels were killed and one injured Wednesday in a shoot-out between rival groups in India's insurgency-hit northeastern state of Nagaland, police said.The two armed factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) clashed near Dimapur, Nagaland's commercial hub, in a dispute over territory, local police chief Liremo Lotha told AFP."We are not in a position to say immediately which group the dead militants belong to," Lotha said, adding security personnel were combing through the area.The fratricidal war between the two factions -- the NSCN-U and the NSCN-IM -- has left at least 50 dead in the past three months.Both groups are fig...
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| DAN meets with factions |
| 2008-06-02 15:09:00 |
Dimapur | June 2 : In a significant new development since the stalled People’s consultative Forum effort, the Political Affairs Committee of the DAN government has reportedly met with top leaders of the NSCN (IM) and “NSCN/GPRN” while similar meetings with the NNC and FGN have been set to schedule. The PAC informed to have met with leaders of both the aforementioned groups only last month, May. Mention may be made here that in April, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland government had assured to chart what was stated to be this time a “tangible” plan of action to address and complement reconciliation of the warring Naga resistance groups. Discussions to this affect were engaged April 4 during the joint meeting of the Political Affairs Committee and the state Cabinet, in Kohima...
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| Turkey: Court Shows Bias, Dissolves Lambda Istanbul |
| 2008-06-02 13:58:00 |
Human Rights Group Ordered Closed on Procedural Grounds(Istanbul/New York, June 02, 2008) – A Turkish court’s decision to disband a human rights organization defending lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people shows that official repression poses a serious threat to democratic rights and freedom of association, Human Rights Watch said today.On May 29, 2008, the Third Civil Court of First Instance in the Beyoðlu district of Istanbul ruled in favor of a complaint brought by the Istanbul Governor’s Office, and ordered the closing of Lambda Istanbul, a group advocating for LGBT people’s human rights. The complaint argued that Lambda Istanb...
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| China: Free Tiananmen Prisoners Before Olympics |
| 2008-06-02 13:56:00 |
Dozens Still in Prison on 19th Anniversary of Massacre(New York, June 2, 2008) – On the 19th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese government should honor its commitment to improve human rights before the 2008 Beijing Olympics by releasing the estimated 130 Tiananmen prisoners improperly arrested or tried, Human Rights Watch said today.Chinese army troops initiated a massacre of an estimated 2,000 unarmed people in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and other Chinese cities on and after June 3-4, 1989. The Chinese government has wholly failed to account for those killings and bring justice to the victims. “The Chinese government should show the global Olympic audience it’s serious about human rights by releasing the Tiananmen detainees,” said Sophie R...
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| Burma: Stop Forced Evictions |
| 2008-06-02 13:53:00 |
Much of Devastated Irrawaddy Delta Remains Uninhabitable(New York, May 30, 2008) – The Burmese government should immediately halt forcibly evicting people displaced by Cyclone Nargis from their temporary shelters, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government should abide by its pledge to the United Nations and allow full humanitarian access to all cyclone victims.“It’s unconscionable for Burma’s generals to force cyclone victims back to their devastated homes,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Claiming a return to ‘normalcy’ is no basis for returning people to greater misery and possible death.” Human Rights Watch has received credible reports that Burmese authorities have expelled hundreds, if not thousand...
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| India peacekeeping force save lives of Sudanese soldiers |
| 2008-06-02 13:33:00 |
New Delhi, Jun 2: Prompt action by Indian soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission has saved the lives of many troops of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA). A truck ferrying troops of the SPLA overturned on May 28 around 2 p.m., injuring about a dozen soldiers with two of them being stuck under the vehicle and bleeding profusely.The 2 NAGA Infantry Battalion troops deployed at Bor in southern Sudan immediately rushed to the site to extricate the SPLA troops and provide medical aid.The immediate response to the humanitarian need by the Indian soldiers helped save lives of SPLA soldiers who would have otherwise bled to death.The assistance rendered by the Indian troops was widely appreciated and the Sudanese Governor ...
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| Israel to build hundreds of homes in East Jerusalem |
| 2008-06-01 19:12:00 |
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel has approved the construction of almost 900 new homes in East Jerusalem, a move that could hinder international efforts to secure a peace deal by year's end. Israel is under pressure to dismantle East Jerusalem outposts like this one in Maaleh Hazeitim, seen in April.The Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of a future Palestinian state.A spokesman for Israeli Housing Minister Zeev Boim said his office will issue a tender this week for the construction of 884 houses, 121 of them in Har Homa. The rest will be in Pisgat Zeev.Both are neighborhoods annexed by Israel in 1967. The housing ministry said it timed the issuance of the permits to coincide w...
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| Somali president escapes assassination bid |
| 2008-06-01 19:11:00 |
(CNN) -- Suspected Islamic insurgents fired mortar rounds at a plane carrying Somalia's transitional president, but no one -- including Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed -- was harmed, a presidential spokesman said. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, pictured late last month during a visit to France.The attack happened while the plane was about to take off from Mogadishu's airport Sunday around 11 a.m. local time, spokesman Hussien Mohammed Huubsireb said."Al-Shaabab has actually tried to harm to president, but thank God nobody was hurt," Huubsireb said.Al-Shaabab is an Islamic militia that is trying to seize control of Somalia. It is a splinter group of the Islamic Courts Union, which ousted Somalia's transitional government in ...
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| Israel deports Hezbollah spy amid rumors of prisoner swap |
| 2008-06-01 19:09:00 |
NAQOURA, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israel on Sunday deported a Lebanese-born man who served six years in jail on charges of spying for the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Israel's deportation of Lebanese-born Nasim Nisr could spur the release of more prisoners.Some observers believe Nasim Nisr's release is prelude to a possible prisoner exchange as Israel has sought to retrieve two abducted soldiers who may have been in Lebanon for almost two years.Hezbollah, which held a boisterous welcome rally for Nisr, says he is not affiliated with the group but rather is a "Lebanese patriot."In exchange for Nisr, Hezbollah handed over a brown coffin containing the remains of Israeli soldiers killed during its...
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| Clinton claims victory in Puerto Rico |
| 2008-06-01 19:05:00 |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Puerto Rico on Sunday and insisted that she is leading Sen. Barack Obama in the popular vote. Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sunday claimed a big win in Puerto Rico.With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was ahead of Barack Obama by more than a 2-1 ratio. Her win gives her the larger share of Puerto Rico's 55 delegates.The Democratic primary season ends Tuesday when Montana and South Dakota cast their votes."When the voting concludes on Tuesday, neither Sen. Obama nor I will have the number of delegates to be the nominee," she said in San Juan, Puerto Rico."I will lead the popular vote; he will maintain a slight lead...
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