Centre rules out truce pact with NSCN (K)
Source: The Sangai Express / PTI

Shillong, May 03 2016: The Indian Government has no plans to re-enter into a ceasefire agreement with Naga insurgent group NSCN-K, a Home Ministry official said on Monday.

"There is no official communication on this (re-entering into ceasefire with NSCN-K) from the Government of India, and at this moment there are no initiatives from our side," Satyendra Garg, Home Ministry Joint Secretary in-charge of North East Affairs, told journalists.

Garg, who reviewed the overall law and order situation in Meghalaya with State Home Minister Roshan Warjri, however, said the counter-insurgency operations against the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang will continue.

"We will continue with our operations against the NSCN-K and I should say that the overall security situation in Nagaland is okay," he said.

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang had earlier appealed to the Indian Government to restart a ceasefire agreement with the NSCN-K to allow peace to prevail in the State.

SS Khaplang, a Myanmarese Hemi Naga chieftain who heads the NSCN-K faction, abrogated the ceasefire with the Indian Government on March 27, 2015, just a month before the truce was up for renewal.

The group had signed a truce in 2001 .

After abrogating the ceasefire, Khaplang's rebels went on a killing spree, attacking Indian soldiers in Nagaland and Manipur.

The outfit even mounted the deadly ambush on a convoy of the 6 Dogra Regiment in Manipur's Chandel district on June 4, 2015, killing 18 army personnel.

Comment