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Rebels threaten to stop ceasefire
SEPARATIST rebels in India's remote northeast threatened Saturday not to extend their ceasefire, accusing the army of supplying weapons to a rival rebel outfit to provoke a "fratricidal war."
The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), the main rebel group in Nagaland state, is due to meet in Bangkok on Friday for talks on the ceasefire, set to expire July 31. "(We have) serious charges of security forces either smuggling weapons seized from our cadres or providing such seized arms to one of our rival factions... in a bid to create a fratricidal war," said a NSCN-IM spokesman. "The very question of extending the ceasefire beyond July 31 is now at stake," the spokesman, Kraibo Chawang, told AFP by telephone from Nagaland's commercial hub of Dimapur. By Rajesh Kumar, Section International News Posted on Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 04:58:15 AM EST
The Indian army denied the rebel charges.
"The charges leveled by the NSCN-IM are totally unfounded," an army commander in Nagaland said, requesting anonymity. The original Nagaland rebel group split in 1988 into two factions. The main NSCN-IM outfit is led by Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah. The other rival National Socialist Council of Nagaland led by guerrilla leader S.S. Khaplang struck a ceasefire with the government in 2001 although no formal peace talks have yet been held. The two sides regularly clash for territorial supremacy. At least 200 members of both outfits have been killed in turf battles in the past five years. The main group led by Muivah and Swu is seeking a "Greater Nagaland" that would unite 1.2 million Nagas, a demand strongly opposed by neighbouring Indian states. The other group is seeking an independent tribal homeland. India and the NSCN-IM have held at least 50 rounds of peace talks in the past nine years to end one of South Asia's longest-running insurgencies that has claimed around 25,000 lives since the country's independence in 1947. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19879203-1702,00.html
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