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Manipur Crisis | Point of Reservation Not Just About Access to Land but to Ensure Equal Representation: Greeshma Kuthar
2 weeks ago

Manipur Crisis | Point of Reservation Not Just About Access to Land but to Ensure Equal Representation: Greeshma Kuthar

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 09, 2024 18:29 IST - 42 MINS READ For 19 months, violence has engulfed Manipur, widely portrayed as an ethnic conflict between the majority Meitei community and the Kuki-Zo tribes. As violence spreads to new districts like Jiribam and weapons continue to circulate, Kuthar, in this insightful webinar for Frontline, examines the complex factors that determine the …

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Centre, Tripura sign peace pact with Tripura insurgent groups
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Centre, Tripura sign peace pact with Tripura insurgent groups

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that more than 300 armed cadres of two insurgent groups in Tripura have given up violence to join the mainstream and will “contribute not only in building a developed Tripura but also in building a developed India”. He said that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act was removed from Tripura in 2015 …

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India may need to reconsider its engagements in Myanmar
1 year, 1 month ago

India may need to reconsider its engagements in Myanmar

Hindustan Times  

Fresh fighting erupted between the military junta and resistance forces on November 13 in the border regions displacing around 5,000 persons into India. Increasing tensions in this region due to escalating crisis in Myanmar and continued ethnic conflict in Manipur pose grave security threat to India’s national security, with possibilities of greater destabilisation by insurgent groups. India-Myanmar military cooperation sought …

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Why New Delhi must closely watch Maoists reaching out to insurgents in North East
1 year, 3 months ago

Why New Delhi must closely watch Maoists reaching out to insurgents in North East

Firstpost  

When insurgent organisation People’s Liberation Army of Manipur’s commander-in-chief, Manohar Mayum met journalists in Myanmar’s Somra Tracts in 2008 and proclaimed his group’s alliance with Communist Party of India to fight the “common enemy”, the speculation that had been doing the rounds about Maoist inroad into the North East became a reality. The Maoists “Unity Congress” that was formed in …

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Military, diplomacy and India’s Neighbourhood First Policy
1 year, 3 months ago

Military, diplomacy and India’s Neighbourhood First Policy

Firstpost  

India should revisit its sub-continental ‘Neighbourhood First Policy’ and recast the policy towards its neighbours in light of its strategic concerns When Narendra Modi first took oath of office as prime minister, he unveiled an intrepid foreign policy doctrine, India’s Neighbourhood-First Policy, which by all accounts is a first of its kind. It is for the mandarins of South Block, …

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Ex-Army chief MM Naravane says insurgent groups receiving Chinese aid
1 year, 4 months ago

Ex-Army chief MM Naravane says insurgent groups receiving Chinese aid

Op India  

On Friday, July 28, former army chief General MM Naravane said that the involvement of foreign agencies in the Manipur violence cannot be ruled out. I am sure that those… pic.twitter.com/NSJOqqvqTu — ANI July 29, 2023 Furthermore, Naravane stated that he is certain that Chinese aid is reaching insurgent groups active in the violence-hit northeastern state. #WATCH | Former Army …

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Strategic encirclement of India's North East: Time to get out of the straitjacket
1 year, 7 months ago

Strategic encirclement of India's North East: Time to get out of the straitjacket

Firstpost  

One of the most important reasons for the continuance of insurgency in the North East, primarily Manipur and areas in Arunachal Pradesh and Upper Assam, is the region’s proximity to outer lands. Armed with a perfectly valid Bangladeshi passport and Swiss visa, John David Salomar was in fact none other than ULFA’s general secretary, Anup Chetia.” The episode was confirmed …

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Myanmar Army Abandons Taga, Headquarters of Northeast Insurgent Groups, after Three Years
2 years, 5 months ago

Myanmar Army Abandons Taga, Headquarters of Northeast Insurgent Groups, after Three Years

News 18  

The Tatmadaw or Myanmar Army has left the Taga areas of Sagaing, Myanmar, which were captured in January 29, 2019 from the Northeast-based insurgent groups, according to sources. A top insurgent leader from Sagaing confirmed: “The Myanmar Army left the Taga areas on June 15.” The operation was carried out by the Army against Northeast origin insurgent groups on the …

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The history of the Kuki insurgency in Manipur
2 years, 9 months ago

The history of the Kuki insurgency in Manipur

The Hindu  

March 02, 2022 10:30 am | Updated April 01, 2022 03:47 pm IST The story so far: Just before the first of the two phases of the Assembly Elections went underway in Manipur on February 28, all insurgent groups associated with the Kuki tribes in Manipur said they will vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party. First was the demand for …

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AFSPA | The rule of guns that continues to haunt India
2 years, 11 months ago

AFSPA | The rule of guns that continues to haunt India

The Hindu  

O n December 26, for the first time since the Modi government came to power in 2014, the Union Home Ministry constituted a panel led by its officers to review the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Act in Nagaland. ‘Disturbed areas’ The Act was amended in 1972 and the powers to declare an area as “disturbed” were conferred concurrently upon …

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Manipur ambush: How Dragon’s shadow over Northeast changes rules of engagement and turns insurgency more ominous
3 years, 1 month ago

Manipur ambush: How Dragon’s shadow over Northeast changes rules of engagement and turns insurgency more ominous

Firstpost  

The persistence with which insurgent groups billeted in Myanmar has been attacking security forces in Manipur has become almost a textbook portrayal. But for all the ethical conduct of the past, the face of North East insurgency — hijacked by the Chinese — are jettisoning their earlier “Rules of Engagement.” Incidentally, one of the reasons for the attack on Col …

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Manipur ambush carried out at the behest of China, Army officers suspect
3 years, 1 month ago

Manipur ambush carried out at the behest of China, Army officers suspect

Op India  

On November 13, a convoy of an Assam Rifles unit was ambushed by terrorists in the Churachandpur district in Manipur, bordering Myanmar. The PLA and other valley-based insurgency groups in Manipur maintain close ties with China, according to a Brigadier attached to the Army’s 3 Corps Headquarters at Rangapahar near Dimapur in Nagaland, who told Swarajya that the leaders of …

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China's Push of Weapons Into Myanmar, India Threat to Regional Security, Intelligence Agencies Tell Govt
4 years, 1 month ago

China's Push of Weapons Into Myanmar, India Threat to Regional Security, Intelligence Agencies Tell Govt

News 18  

Easy flow of Chinese weapons illegally into Myanmar and India is posing threats to regional security and stability, intelligence agencies have flagged to the Indian government. Intelligence agencies have also said that China is supplying arms and ammunition to insurgent groups on the Myanmar border as they pay good prices. China is now using the Arakan Army, an Arakanese armed …

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