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Dimapur | March 14: In what will be seen as a huge setback to the credibility of the Indian establishment—the Home, Defence Ministry, the Army and the Assam Rifles—a fact-finding team consisting of four lawyers has questioned the ploy to destabilize the Indo-Naga political process, and break the hard-earned peace.
“Counter-insurgency operations are used not only to undermine the underground organizations but also to foment inter-community suspicions and tensions”, stated a ten-page statement issued by the fact-finding team. The four lawyers include eminent advocate, writer and human rights’ activist Nandita Haksar, senior lawyer Timikha Koza, Sebastian Hongray and Edward Belho. Haksar, it may be mentioned, has also taught in various universities including the National Law School in Bangalore.
A press conference was held today by the fact-finding team at Hotel Japfu, in Kohima, where the report on the study was released. According to the team, the study “exposes the lies told by the Government of India with regard to the recent incidents at both Pfutsero and Shirui”. The study also makes a critical analysis of the monitoring mechanism and its lack of transparency. “It raises questions which go to the heart of Indian democracy”, the study said.
The fact-finding team constituted to study the working of the ceasefire monitoring mechanism in Nagaland and Manipur states, has come out with a five-point recommendations. The study says that the ceasefire monitoring mechanism should be made more transparent, and that records of the decisions of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CFMG) should be kept. Further, record of apologies made and commitments given should also be maintained, the study said. In addition to these, all guidelines, rules and regulations must be signed by the parties in concern and made available in the public domain.
The study also recommended that the ceasefire be officially extended without territorial limits, but with an “explicit clause to indicate that the extension of ceasefire is a purely administrative measure and has no political connotations or implications”. Another recommendation in it called for declaration of ceasefire between different underground groups “so that the inter-factional clashes are not used as a justification for either further militarization of the region or for a tool for divide and rule policy”.
The lawyers have also recommended that the ceasefire monitoring groups have to decide better ways, for effective enforcement of ceasefire ground rules. The media is advised to evolve guidelines for itself so that it is not used as an “instrument for counter-insurgency or for spreading disinformation”.
Source: Morung Express News
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“Counter-insurgency operations are used not only to undermine the underground organizations but also to foment inter-community suspicions and tensions”, stated a ten-page statement issued by the fact-finding team. The four lawyers include eminent advocate, writer and human rights’ activist Nandita Haksar, senior lawyer Timikha Koza, Sebastian Hongray and Edward Belho. Haksar, it may be mentioned, has also taught in various universities including the National Law School in Bangalore.
A press conference was held today by the fact-finding team at Hotel Japfu, in Kohima, where the report on the study was released. According to the team, the study “exposes the lies told by the Government of India with regard to the recent incidents at both Pfutsero and Shirui”. The study also makes a critical analysis of the monitoring mechanism and its lack of transparency. “It raises questions which go to the heart of Indian democracy”, the study said.
The fact-finding team constituted to study the working of the ceasefire monitoring mechanism in Nagaland and Manipur states, has come out with a five-point recommendations. The study says that the ceasefire monitoring mechanism should be made more transparent, and that records of the decisions of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CFMG) should be kept. Further, record of apologies made and commitments given should also be maintained, the study said. In addition to these, all guidelines, rules and regulations must be signed by the parties in concern and made available in the public domain.
The study also recommended that the ceasefire be officially extended without territorial limits, but with an “explicit clause to indicate that the extension of ceasefire is a purely administrative measure and has no political connotations or implications”. Another recommendation in it called for declaration of ceasefire between different underground groups “so that the inter-factional clashes are not used as a justification for either further militarization of the region or for a tool for divide and rule policy”.
The lawyers have also recommended that the ceasefire monitoring groups have to decide better ways, for effective enforcement of ceasefire ground rules. The media is advised to evolve guidelines for itself so that it is not used as an “instrument for counter-insurgency or for spreading disinformation”.
Source: Morung Express News
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