Centre to review Naga truce
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 when NSCN (I-M) ran over a camp of its rival 10km from Dimapur, leaving five dead and several injured.
The Dimapur meeting scheduled for Wednesday is, however, unlikely to be attended by the I-M faction. They had also walked out of the June 12 meeting in protest over change of the chairman of the CFMG, Lt General (retd) RV Kulkarni. The Centre did not extend the services of the chairman. He had served for seven years.
They have opposed the appointment of Special Secretary Internal Security as chairman without consulting them. Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, meanwhile, wrote to the Home Ministry expressing his concern over the threat to the ongoing peace process of ceasefire, seeking urgent intervention of the Centre.
Significantly the meeting tomorrow also comes after the Chiang Mai peace summit between the two factions. The meeting was organised by Forum for Naga Reconciliation in Thailand last month.
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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 when NSCN (I-M) ran over a camp of its rival 10km from Dimapur, leaving five dead and several injured.
The Dimapur meeting scheduled for Wednesday is, however, unlikely to be attended by the I-M faction. They had also walked out of the June 12 meeting in protest over change of the chairman of the CFMG, Lt General (retd) RV Kulkarni. The Centre did not extend the services of the chairman. He had served for seven years.
They have opposed the appointment of Special Secretary Internal Security as chairman without consulting them. Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, meanwhile, wrote to the Home Ministry expressing his concern over the threat to the ongoing peace process of ceasefire, seeking urgent intervention of the Centre.
Significantly the meeting tomorrow also comes after the Chiang Mai peace summit between the two factions. The meeting was organised by Forum for Naga Reconciliation in Thailand last month.
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