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Development Disparities in Northeast India by Rakhee Battacharya
- atimes.com -
South Asia, May 21: 2011
..apart from exploring economic development in India's remote seven northeastern states - which it does brilliantly - it also deals with a highly controversial and seldom researched issue: rebel taxation and the economic role of insurgents in a region which for decades has been torn apart by ethnic strife.
Many of them are known to travel frequently to Southeast Asia, China and even Europe and North America. In 2007-2008, the National Socialist Council of Nagalim's Isak-Muivah faction (NSCN-IM), a militant group fighting for Naga independence, collected 630 million rupees, or US$14.6 million, in "taxes" and other "revenues", according to Battacharya's research.
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