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India: Troubling Externalities In The Northeast – Analysis
eurasiareview.com | Ajai Sahni (SATP) | March 26, 2012
India’s Northeast, troubled by decades of militancy and ethnic extremism, has seen dramatic improvements in the prevailing security scenario over the past years, with a multiplicity of enduring insurgencies weakening considerably, disintegrating or seeking peace through negotiated settlements with the Government. Trends in fatalities for the Northeast demonstrate sustained and dramatic improvements, from a recent peak in insurgency-related fatalities across the region, at 1,051 in 2008, collapsing to a total of just 247 fatalities in 2011.
The most significant recent improvements have been witnessed in Assam and Manipur, the two States in the region that accounted for the overwhelming majority of recent fatalities.
Manipur also recorded a steep decline (52.89 per cent) in the number of overall fatalities from 138 in 2010 to 65 in 2011. The number of civilian and SF personnel killed has, however, remained more or less the same. Militant fatalities have registered a sharp drop of 74.03 percent from 104 in 2010 to 27 in 2011. 47 encounters between SFs and militants were recorded by the SATP database in 2010, while just nine were registered in 2011. Fratricidal clashes between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland – Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) – a breakaway faction of the NSCN-IM – became very prominent in the State after the latter’s formation on February 25, 2011.
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