Decoding the Naga ceasefire: Where is it really applicable? Scroll.in
When the Manipur police arrested two National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isaac-Muivah) cadres in a combing operation in the state’s Kakching district late in May, it brought to the fore a question that is key to maintaining peace in the states of the North East. Does the ceasefire agreement that the NSCN (IM), the largest of the Naga groups, signed with the Indian government in 1997, extend beyond Nagaland? The answer has been deliberately left somewhat ambiguous as the Centre navigates a complicated region where competing claims for ethnic homelands have given rise to multiple militanci…
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