Gogoi to hold talks with Zeliang on border incidents. Following the spate of arson and violence on Thursday along Nagaland-Assam border areas under Golaghat and Wokha district, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and his Nagaland counterpart, T.R. Zeliang are scheduled to meet in Guwahati on August 21 to discuss the situation arising at the disturbed area between the two states. At a press meet here, chief minister Gogol said that the role of NSCN group was under scanner for involvement in the incidents in the border area. Gogoi said the involvement of the outfit has only complicated the situation and that his government has already sent its report to the union home ministry which pointed fingers at the Naga outfit responsible for fomenting trouble in the border during the past couple of years. Gogoi also blamed the neutral central force (CRPF) deployed along the Assam-Nagaland border for the escalating tension. Gogoi said that these central forces have been failing to ensure peace in the violence-hit areas. “That’s why, the violence took place and people died,” Gogoi said. He said that he would write to Centre with a complaint on the alleged inaction by a CRPF Commandant, who was reportedly a Zeme Naga. Meanwhile in his Independence Day speech Friday, Gogoi expressed his government’s deep concern on the occurrences of violence on Assam-Nagaland border and killing of innocent people by miscreants. Death toll 11: Death toll in violence at B-Sector of disputed boundary between Assam and Nagaland has risen to 11 with recovery of nine more bodies in the affected villages on Friday. Assam Home Commissioner G.D. Tripathi told The Hindu that the recovered bodies were related to indiscriminate firing and arson by miscreants along the disputed boundary on August 12. Indefinite economic blockade enters day-3: Indefinite economic blockade on Nagaland imposed by some organisations at Rangajan area along National Highway 39 in Golaghat district entered the third day affecting supplies of essential commodities to Dimapur. The block has been imposed to protest the attacks by miscreants on Assam villages. Indefinite curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. has been clamped in B-sector of the disputed boundary between Assam and Nagaland. Additional security has been deployed in the affected areas. BJP workers seize vehicle: Earlier on Thursday, BJP workers at Uriamghat seized a vehicle reportedly belonging to a top NSCN functionary in full view of a CRPF patrolling party on Thursday. Assam Times report stated that a “Maruti Wagon R bearing No NL 07C 6233 was seized by a group of BJP workers from Chetiagaon at around 2 p.m. Thursday. Talking to Assam Times, a BJP worker who took the lead to intercept the vehicle said that they spotted the car plying in the troubled–hit area and that as they moved towards the vehicle, three persons managed to escape leaving the car on the road. The report stated that “some arms have been recovered from the vehicle in question which was later handed over to police. Investigation is going on”. nagalandpost/ChannelNews/Regional/RegionalNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDA2NTAzNg%3d%3d
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:55:22 +0000
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