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‘Post deal, extortion by Naga rebels should end’
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- Fifteen political parties of Manipur have sought a guarantee from the Centre that the settlement of the Naga peace process would signal the end of “extortions and illegal taxations by Naga insurgents”.
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- Final Naga Peace Deal: expected to be announced soon, is between the Centre and the Isak Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCNIM) and seven rival outfits who formed the umbrella Naga National Political Groups.
- Concerns listed in Memorandum to PM
(1) Final peace accord should not compromise in any way the territorial, administrative and political integrity of Manipur.
(a) Concern is based on NSCNIM’s Nagalim vision, a self administered homeland comprising all Naga inhabited areas of the northeast.
(b) Arunachal Pradesh & Assam stand to lose large swathes of land, but it will impact Manipur the most.
(2) Geopolitical conditions of Manipur — 92% hills and 8% valley — scarcely warrants any administrative dispensation which will fracture the existing composite administrative and political setup as such a dispensation would not be viable.
(3) GOI(Government of India) should guarantee that extortions & illegal taxations by Naga insurgents on Manipur bound vehicles shall not be allowed in future.
(a) Manipur, for essentials, relies heavily on two National Highways which pass through Naga inhabited hill districts before entering Imphal (state capital), one from Dimapur in Nagaland and other from Silchar in Assam.
(b) Illegal taxation and extortion by Naga insurgent groups, started since the inception of “Indo-Naga confrontation”.
(c) Extortion intensified after truce(1997) and talks with Centre in “semi-legal” way under the cover of ceasefire.
- GoI needs serious consideration of compensating adequately since Manipur has suffered the loss of thousands of crores of rupees over a period of more than 50yrs.
Sources
The Hindu