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Khaplang coming to India for talks
Source: Manipur Mail

Imphal, January 14: NSCN(K) supremo SS Khaplang is all set to come to India by November this year for a political dialogue with the government of India according to a well placed source of the outfit.

The source said Khaplang presently in Myanmar had indicated his willingness to come to India for negotiations with the government of India latest by the end of this year and added many of the top ranking leaders of the faction are also coming with him.

Khaplang would also find a way to come to term with the NNC/FGN during his visit to India in the later part of the year.

Khaplang, a Hemi Naga and one time comrade of Swu and Muivah had broke away from the two in 1988 after allegedly the two leaders thus killing about 150 persons prompted by the rumor that Swu and Muivah had accepted the proposal of the government of India to start a political dialogue within the framework of the Indian Constitution.

Today NSCN(K) and NNC/FGN pooh poohed the ongoing peace talks between the NSCNCIM) and the government.

NSCN(K) said the dialogue would throw up nothing more than a piece meal solution to the problem while NNC/FGN Chief Mrs Adino daughter of AZ Phizo based in London accused NSCN(IM) of trying to monopolize the process.

Meanwhile the Naga International Support Centre (NISC) a human rights group based in Amsterdam said Indian election would not solve the long standing problem of the Nagas.

Meanwhile the Apunba Manipur Kanba Ima Lup (AMKIL) today welcomed the peace talks now going on in the capital city but it demanded that it should be transparent and should not affect the territorial integrity of the state.

Manipur belongs to the Manipuris who live in it not for any community or individual whether Muivah himself, Meitei, Tangkhul, Kuki, Mizo, Nepali, Punjabi, N Saromi President of the association today said.

The people of Manipur already expressed their opinion on 4 August 1997, 28 September 2000 and 18 June 2001.From this perspective India should understand the stand of the people she added.

She expressed her unhappiness for not inviting a single state representative for the ongoing peace talks.

She recalled the agreement between the India government and Burma in which Kabaw valley was gifted away to Burma.

She said they are ready to fight legally or illegally against the government if India agrees to give away the controversial demands.

The President of Nambol Apunba Ibechoubi and Yaimabi Devi who represent Thoubal district attended the meet.

Sakhileima, VP of the organization said the merger of Manipur with India is questionable.

She said the pre merger status would be better if India does not honor the verdict of the people.

Sakhileima expressed that she does not want to fight occasionally but to fight with a sense of continuity for the integrity of or culture.

India should respect our rich culture, language and script and.

our pride she said.

Yaimabi urged all to stand for the oneness of the state.

PTI reports Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who was involved in the Naga peace deal, will leave for Delhi on Wednesday to meet leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah).

Zoramthanga said chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th Muivah had invited him.





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