SEARCH RESULT

Total Matching Records found : 619

Collective conscience -Shiv Visvanathan

-The Telegraph A Truth Commission for the Northeast This essay is a letter to my fellow Indians. It’s a prayer, a plea, a proposal for a project, a moral experiment. It was triggered by the emptiness of Independence Day, when a majoritarian, mediocre India confronted the vacuity of its political self. These feelings increased upon reading reports on December 4 of the massacre of several civilians in Nagaland. They were waiting at...

More »

Controversial Law AFSPA Extended In Nagaland For 6 Months -Arvind Gunasekar, Ratnadip Choudhury and Vishnu Som

-NDTV.com Nagaland's rights groups and even the state government have been demanding the centre to withdraw AFSPA Kohima: The controversial law AFSPA that protects security forces from persecution has been extended for another six months in Nagaland, where the army is conducting a court of inquiry into an ambush that went horribly wrong on December 4. The Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act, or AFSPA, gives sweeping powers to the military to operate freely...

More »

‘I only want my husband back’: Nine days before he was killed, this Naga miner had got married -Rokibuz Zaman

-Scroll.in According to the residents of Oting village, joining the army was an ‘honourable job’. Now, they want the army to leave the area. On November 25, Hokup Konyak, a 38-year-old coal miner, married Monglong Konyak. The wedding was held in the hahshahapang, or village square, in Oting in Nagaland’s Mon district. Everyone in the village attended. Eleven days later, his funeral was held in the same village square. “He was buried just...

More »

After Nagaland army Op, State To Move Against Controversial Act AFSPA -Ratnadip Choudhury

-NDTV.com On Saturday, 14 villagers and a soldier died in Nagaland's Mon district after an army op to track down insurgents went off script. A police FIR has said the army's 21 Para Special Forces "blankly opened fire". Kohima: Amid outrage over the mistaken killings of 14 civilians in a botched army operation against insurgents, the Nagaland government will write to the Centre calling for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special...

More »

army Unit Named In Nagaland Op Deaths, "Intention To Murder," Allege Cops -Ashutosh Tripathi

-NDTV.com Thirteen villagers and a soldier were killed at an Indo-Myanmar border district in Nagaland on Sunday as a counter-insurgency operation went horribly off script. One more villager died in the clashes that followed.  The 21 Para Special forces of army "blankly opened fire" resulting in the killing of many Oting villagers in Mon district of Nagaland near Assam border, the state police has alleged in its FIR against the army unit....

More »

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close