Santwana Bhattacharya\ Source: AsiaTimesTwelve days after the very surprising Indian election results were out, 10 days after Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran's body was found by the Sri Lan
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Vaprumu DemoTiring 12 years of negotiation and nearing 60 rounds of exhaustive talks between the NSCN(IM) and the GOI unfortunately, have not yield any desired result beyond the highfaluting rhetoric and decept
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James PattersonThe anniversary of Kevin Rudds apology to Australias aboriginal community has come and gone. What difference has it made?Id have thought that the Aboriginals would have been pretty happy with the
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Forum for Naga ReconciliationStanding at the threshold of the year 2009, we are in what might be called a Post-Ambivalent year in the life of the Nagas. The bygone cynicism and skepticism toward Naga solidarity
Tarsh ThekaekaraMany countries have ill treated and persecuted their indigenous people, often in worse ways than India. But while some leaders like Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have gone on record to ap-
Prashant BhushanThe recent horrendous terror attacks in Mumbai are obviously totally atrocious. They have woken up our elite citizenry of Mumbai and the country to the dangers of terrorism as nothing ever has.
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Conor GeartyA landmark anniversary is a moment to move beyond complacency and engage in critical self-reflection of the foundation of human rightsThere is much natural jubilation over the fact that the Universa
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Wu ZhongChinas strong reaction to French President Nicolas Sarkozys weekend meeting with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, is unprecedented. From Beijings perspective, there is ample reason
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Rev.L. Suohie MhasiWe Nagas are proud of our people being around 95% are professed Christians. When our people were in severe affliction, the people prayed to God for their security and protection and God was s
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Nehemiah RongNagas inheritance was and is freedom, their land, independence and democratic governance, economic self reliance, quick and just delivery and disposal judicial system based on traditional customary
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Dr. Paul PimomoFor months Ive been bothered by a nightmare. A series of violent images, connected and disconnected and nauseatingly repetitive, has haunted me but I cant get rid of it. The names of places and p
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Dreams do come true. Yes I thought so to myself on the night of october5 when I read the news about how the urban development department was going to fund the communitisation project. Here is just another criti
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John PilgerAs the people of Burma rise up again, we have had a rare sighting of Aung San Suu Kyi. There she stood, at the back gate of her lakeside home in Rangoon, where she is under house arrest. She looked v
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The rich civilization and culture that flourished in the hills of Nagaland is today an invaluable heritage of the state. However of late the traditional Naga music has died down and as guns blaze today echoes c
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Dr. MaongsangbaThe political migration of Party functionaries, of party workers, of political bigwigs, from one party to another has hogged the media attention and taken the entire populace by storm. Look at th
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Eyingbeni HumtsoeThe experiences of the Naga populace under the veneer of nationalism is known to all and sundry. Brutality, aggression, militarism, division and the likes mark Naga nationalism much more domina
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Ralph Peters AS the juntas misbehavior worsened in Myanmar (as those thugs have re-chris tened Burma) last week, pundits suggested that we should force China to pressure its client to treat the pro-democra
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Niketu IraluTuisem Shishak has done a most difficult thing in his A Confession. He has done a thankless job guided by a sense of urgency for his own people and the whole Naga family. The Tangkhul Long has had t
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Rene Wadlow While the United Nations human rights structures are under critical examination and Burma is being discussed in the UN Security Council, it is useful to review the UNs efforts to help a
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In this era of Global Village if at all the Government really doubts the workmanship of the present incumbent BRO/GREEF (the internationally acclaimed road building organization) whose workforce champion the co
