Monday, August 3, 2015

India Signs Peace Accord with Militant Tribal Separatists


Reuters, 03/08 17:43 CET

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India signed a peace agreement on Monday with a leading tribal separatist group in the country’s remote northeast that had waged guerrilla war for six decades against central rule from New Delhi.

Officials from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government signed the accord with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), one of several separatist groups active in the remote and underdeveloped northeastern region bordering China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

The NSCN-IM has been fighting for an independent ethnic Naga homeland uniting parts of the mountainous northeast with areas of neighbouring Myanmar, where it runs a government-in-exile. At least one other Naga faction remains at war with New Delhi.

New Delhi and the NSCN-IM have been in talks since 1997.

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Source: Euronews

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