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	Nagaland
		Nagaland was conquered by the British late in the 19th century and was annexed to India.
		Delhi believes that the great majority of the people of Nagaland have been sufficiently convinced that war is futile, which in turn would act as a deterrent on Naga independence movement, preventing it from going back to war.
		While endorsing the principle of self-determination of all subject people, the Peace Mission suggested that the Naga underground could “on their own volition, decide to be a participant in the Union of India and mutually settle the terms and conditions for that purpose”.
	www.sangam.org /ANALYSIS_ARCHIVES/Nagaland_2_18_03.htm (4559 words)

	Indian general election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha (the House of the People, the lower house of the Indian legislature).
		People were more concerned about issues of their immediate environment such as water scarcity, drought, etc., than national issues.
		People were concerned with communal issues after the Gujarat riots and thus their mandate for a secular government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_general_elections,_2004 (1962 words)

	NAGALAND ONLINE \| Nagaland News, Nagaland History, Festivals Of Nagaland, NAGALAND TOURISM, KUKNALIM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Date: Jul 16, 2006 - 06:00 AM : The Nagaland Peoples' Front (NPF) has vehemently refuted the NSCN-K allegation that the rival NSCN-IM cadre members were acting as security guards to state chief minister Neiphiu Rio.
		The party also said the credibility, efficiency and competency of the Nagaland Police was beyond doubt and that the state force has the inherent ability to face and tackle any eventuality and capable enough to protect and defend its citizens.
		The party said it was very unfortunate that an organization which claims itself to be championing the cause of the people, was confining itself into a "cocoon of habitually issuing illogical and malicious statements in the news media against individuals, groups and government."
	www.nagarealm.com /print.php?sid=2104 (229 words)

	Nagaland - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Nagaland
		The British sent 18 expeditions against the Naga peoples in the north 1832–87.
		After India attained independence in 1947, there was Naga guerrilla activity against the Indian government; the state of Nagaland was established in 1963 in response to demands for self-government, but fighting continued sporadically.
		A peace accord was struck with the guerrillas in 1975 but fighting resumed in 1980.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Nagaland (247 words)

	Nagaland News - 25
		He said that rebels of the United Liberation Front of Assam and the Peoples Liberation Army of Manipur have also joined the battle as their bases in the same area have come under attack.
		Strife-torn Nagaland is one of the seven remote fareastern Indian states, which are also called the "Seven Sisters." The NSCN-IM and the Indian government had entered into a ceasefire in August 1997 and the two sides have held several rounds of talks in South Asian capitals in the past few years.
		Stating that the decision to extend the ceasefire in Naga-dominated areas in states neighbouring Nagaland had not been implemented, he said, "It is hard to say that the ceasefire has any meaning now and we have no moral obligation to follow it as the government has shown none".
	home.nycap.rr.com /nagaland/nnews25.html (1699 words)

	ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
		Nonetheless, the people of the Chin State and Sagaing Division have faced a dramatic increase in militarization of their areas, and are suffering not only forced labour and extortion, but also religious persecution by the SLORC military junta.
		The local people have been impoverished to such an extent that tens of thousands of villagers have fled from this area to India and Bangladesh during the last five years seeking a means of survival.
		These people are often referred to as 'migrant workers' and 'economic migrants', terms implying that their motives for leaving their homes are primarily economic; however, the basic cause of their flight is widespread human rights abuses.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/Western_Front.htm (21584 words)

	Features- Election Verdicts In Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura: Mandates For Peace?
		In Nagaland, peace gained priority in the electoral agenda, courtesy the BJP’s electoral strategy of trying to make inroads into the state by holding talks with the NSCN (IM) on election eve, prompted also by strong yearnings for peace in the state.
		The Naga Peoples Front (NPF), reportedly a legitimate front of the NSCN (IM), projected itself as principally committed to bringing peace to the state, has succeeded in forming the government in alliance with the BJP despite coming second.
		In Tripura, despite the claims of the victorious Left Front that its mandate is for peace, it is pertinent to note that the same ensemble of left parties had been in power for the past decade or so, but the security, law and order and insurgency situation in the state remains grave.
	www.manipuronline.com /Features/March2003/elections24_2.htm (807 words)

	Nagaland celebrates peace, Army nurses relent on uniform, Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus plan, 80 pc polling in Nagaland; ...
		The prominent ones being the Congress party nominee K Asungba Sangtam and the Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF) candidate Wanyguh Konyak.
		Nagaland witnessed brisk polling, with 45 percent of the state's more than one million electorate exercising their franchise by midday.
		The phenomenal 75 to 80 percent polling that took place was even higher than the average of the country, and was a clear indication of the fact that the people want peace.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/news2004/may04/may0804_poll.html (1165 words)

	Daily Excelsior....News Page
		K Therie, spokesman of Nagaland Peoples Front, lead party of DAN, told reporters that the independent MLAs gave their support in writing, paving the way for forming a Government.
		People woke up this morning to find that the entire city had turned white with all electric poles, roofs, tree tops and roads covered under about half a feet of snow.
		He said in Nagaland, the party had won eight seats and was part of a front which is almost on the verge of forming Government in the state.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03mar03/news.htm (6242 words)

	20 hurt in firing by Samata activists in Nagaland
		At least 20 people were injured when Samata Party supporters allegedly fired at villagers during campaigning for the February 26 assembly polls by a Congress candidate at a village in Mokochung district in Nagaland, official sources said in Kohima on Saturday.
		Earlier on Tuesday, 30 persons were injured in clashes between supporters of the Congress and Nagaland Peoples Front at Khar village in the same district, the sources said adding 10 government employees were arrested in this connection from the village, of which NPF secretary general Chubatemjen Ao is a native.
		The Indian Reserve Battalion was deployed in Jangpetkong assembly constituency, under which the two villages fall, since campaigning began because of the close proximity of the Dishoi valley on the Assam-Nagaland border where the NSCN (I-M) is active.
	www.rediff.com /election/2003/feb/22naga.htm (226 words)

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		‘People are seriously concerned that free and fair elections cannot be ensured unless certain urgent measures are taken to make the Election Commission truly independent and effective, and the non-partisan caretaker government truly non-partisan and impartial,’ he said, suggesting some solutions that would not require constitutional changes.
		On March 26, 14 indigenous people were kidnapped from four villages in Naniarchar allegedly by the activists of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti.
		The police said local people caught four snatchers when they were fleeing along with valuables and cash snatched from a fish trader, Badiul Alam, on his way to residence from a local market at around 10:00pm.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/apr/02/front.html (7253 words)

	Nagalim.NL News
		Nagaland, where more than 25,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency since India's independence in 1947, is a Christian majority state of two million people.
		The Nagaland Peoples' Front (NPF), the major coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) on Tuesday supported the integration of Naga areas.In a statement NPF president Shurhozelie said the NPF stands for integration of all Naga areas and would continue to support all disseminative moves towards integration of all naga areas.
		In 1948, on this day three people were killed on the spot, two succumbed to their injuries later when a contingent of Assam Rifles and police indiscriminately fired upon the Naga civilians who tried to obstruct the contingent who came to arrest the then Naga leader A Daiho.
	www.nagalim.nl /news/archive-082005.html (20785 words)

	South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), Weekly Assessments & Briefings
		A drastic reduction of the CPI-M's victory margins in the tribal reserved constituencies in Ramchandraghat, Asharambari and Krishanpur in Khowai subdivision, the Simna constituency in the Sadar subdivision, and the Charilam reserve constituency in the Bishalgarh subdivision, were all eloquent commentary on the influence of guns.
		In Nagaland, results for 58 of 60 Assembly seats were available by March 2, of which the Indian National Congress (INC) won 21 seats, the Nagaland People's Front (NPF) 19 and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seven seats.
		Six Maoists were arrested from Howrah railway station, Kolkata on February 26 and 27 for allegedly distributing leaflets in Nepali, calling for mobilization of the people for a 'violent and subversive struggle' for restoration of democracy and holding of early 'constituent assembly elections' in Nepal.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/sair/Archives/1_33.htm (3781 words)

	Part B - Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Conservation
		For indigenous peoples', their ancestral territories do not just provide the economic base for their daily lives but are intimately bound up with their cosmologies and identities as communities and as peoples.
		One important event that prompted the entry of Asian indigenous peoples onto the 'international' stage was the struggle of the Igorot peoples of the Central Cordillera of the Philippines to halt the construction of a series of World bank-funded dams in the mid-1970s.
		Representatives of indigenous peoples from India and the Philippines began to attend the Working Group from 1984 onwards and soon identified that they shared a political platform with indigenous peoples from the Americas, Northern Europe, Australia and New Zealand in pushing for their rights to the ownership and control of their territories and to self-determination.
	www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/asia/marcus/marcus_B.html (12813 words)

	Welcome to Sentinel
		All the probable MLAs to be inducted in the ministry are from the Nagaland Peoples’ Front(NPF), who have defected from the Congress recently and subsequently joined the NPF,sources informed.
		The people of Nagaon and the Samaguri regional unit of the All Assam Students’ Union expressed their resentment over plantation of tea by Tata Tea at Koliabor here destroying the historic Sambor Garh, which had been built by the famous Ahom king, Pratap Singh in 1538.
		But, the people condemned the inhuman act of the DMB official and questioned his authority to take the law in his own hand.
	www.sentinelassam.com /sentinel_en/archives/aug2903/regional1.htm (2364 words)

	Nagalim.NL News
		He alleged that Mr Rio's statement was aimed at misleading the people of Nagaland because at no point of time he had mentioned that equi-closeness was for supporting the peace process.
		Former Nagaland Finance Minister Kewekhape Therie, who was dropped from the Neiphiu Rio ministry and subsequently suspended from the Nagaland Peoples' Front (NPF), described his suspension as "political sports".
		The MP also lamented that the security forces` harassment of the people of the state is a matter of shame and said that the demand of the people for total repeal of AFSPA is a rightful demand.
	www.nagalim.nl /news/00000162.htm (2948 words)

	Front Page
		She said as a number of them are floating and migrant people for which it becomes difficult to trace their families.
		She called upon the people to launch a united movement to force the present government to step down and establish a Sogan Bangla according to the dream of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
		At least 29 people died Wednesday after the plane they were in crashed and caught fire as it attempted to land in Russia’s Far North, the emergencies ministry said.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/mar/17/front.html (6266 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For your kind reference, the Naga Students' Federation (NSF) is a conglomeration of all students' bodies of the Naga nation and whose jurisdiction covers the entire Naga homeland, despite and inspite of the artificial (geographical) boundaries and, thereof, represents the sentiments and concerns of the younger Naga generation.
		In two Judgments made by the Supreme Court of India (Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights Vs. Union of India, AIR 1984 AND AIR 1997), the legal immunity protecting the unruly behaviour of the Indian Armed Forces from their inhuman excesses committed on civilian population has been highlighted and implicated.
		It is in our earnest commitment for the human security of our people, for the Indo-Naga political negotiation, and for the betterment of relations between Indians and Nagas, that confidence building measure and policy oriented measures are immediately implemented, for our common good.
	www.nscnonline.org /webpage/letter_to_pm_by_nsf.htm (714 words)

	MSN India - SC Jamir resings as Nagaland CM :: News Section
		SC Jamir resings as Nagaland CM Kohima(Mar 4):Congress stalwart and five times Chief Minister of Nagaland, S C Jamir has resigned from office after his party failed to secure an absolute majority winning only 21 of the 60 seats in the state assembly.
		Jamir's stepping down from office clears the way for the pre-poll alliance, namely the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland, comprising the Nagaland Peoples Front, the BJP, the JD(U) and the Samta Party to form the next government with the support of four independents.
		Elections in Nagaland were a virtual contest between the ruling Congress and the Naga militant outfit, the NSCN (IM) who are accused of intimidating Congress candidates.
	autofeed.msn.co.in /pandoraV15/output/44F25054-87AC-456B-B773-A04733E8969F.asp (235 words)

	Peoples participation in elections marked 1999
		KOHIMA, DEC 26: All pervading zest for peace among the people, stepped up factional clashes, large scale participation of voters in parliamentary elections despite threats and over all sluggish economy marked 1999 in the trouble torn Nagaland.
		Despite a financial crisis dogging the state all through the year, the cultural scene of the state was alive, particularly with the year-long celebration of 35 years of Nagaland statehood.
		On economic front, nothing remarkable happened in the state except the bold measures announced by the Congress government in its last budget to augment much needed internal resources.
	www.assam.org /news/ag/peoples_participation_in_electio.htm (573 words)

	10 May History: This Date
		Mandela, born in 1918, was the son of the chief of the Xhosa-speaking Tembu people.
		The government of the People's Republic of China announces that it is releasing 211 people arrested during the massive protests held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989.
		Nearly 130 million people are eligible to vote for the state legislatures in 823 districts in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry states.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4may/h4may10.html (11529 words)

	The Hindu : People's Front for offensive against NDA Govt.
		The Peoples' Front today decided to go on the offensive against the National Democratic Alliance Government and promised to build public opinion against the manner in which the affairs of the nation were run.
		The Front also conveyed its opposition to the extension of ceasefire of the Centre's agreement with NSCN (I-M) to areas outside Nagaland.
		On the Agra summit, the Front said the Government went in without preparation and the Prime Minister did not think it was necessary to consult the Opposition before extending invitation to the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/07/23/stories/02230009.htm (426 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		Hindu by which the Arabs referred to all people inhabiting India.
		Communist built up a people's army and militia and controlled an area with a population of three million.
		The National Front coalition that was formed consisted of the Janata Dal and a few smaller parties in the government, and had outside support from the BJP and the Communists.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm (2451 words)

	outlookindia.com
		In Nagaland, over 10 lakh voters would decide the fate of 225 canidates, including chief minister S C Jamir (Congress), former chief minister Hokishe Sema (BJP) and another former chief minister K L Chisi who is the JD(U) state president.
		Most seats in the state are witnessing direct fights between the Congress and the Nagaland Peoples Front or between the Congress and BJP.
		Left Front major, CPI-M is contesting in 55 seats while allies CPI in two, All India Forward Bloc (1) and Revolutionary Socialist Party (2).
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=123061 (436 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast
		Kohima, Aug. 28: Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland, Wangyuh Konyak, will raise the issues of delimitation of Assembly constituencies and the anti-defection law in Parliament.
		The debate assumes significance in the light of the fallout of the recent downsizing exercise.
		Under pressure from disgruntled legislators who were dropped from the downsized cabinet, the Nagaland Peoples’ Front today called a joint meeting of legislators and office-bearers.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040829/asp/northeast/story_3689477.asp (397 words)

	indianexpress.com :: Nagaland CM suggests interim deal with NSCN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As the crucial round of peace talks between the Government and the NSCN(I-M) begins today in Amsterdam, the Nagaland government has told the Centre to explore the possibility of an “interim agreement” on the demands submitted by the militant outfit.
		The most contentious demand appears to be that of Greater Nagalim as it would mean division of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, all of whom are ruled by Congress governments.
		Rio belongs to the Nagaland Peoples’ Front that heads a coalition government in the state with the JD(U) and the BJP.
	www.indianexpress.com /printerFriendly/4762.html (292 words)

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