The next round of talks between the Government of India and the NSCN-(IM) that has started today, just on the eve of expiry of the ten year old ceasefire, holds the key to the future of the peace process.
The Morung Express states that ceasefire extension is likely to happen only in case of a definite political commitment from the Government of India.
The Indian Express reports:
"Ten years of ceasefire and endless rounds of peace talks with the Government of India may not have produced anything tangible that the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) can speak about. But that does not worry NSCN Chairman Isaak Chisi Swu and General Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah, the two most important rebel leaders in the Northeast.
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“It is the patience, perseverance and maturity of our leaders that peace talks with the Government of India have been on for ten long years,” said “Brigadier” Phunthing Shimrang, a senior NSCN(IM) leader, also a convenor of the ceasefire monitoring cell of the outfit.
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...what the NSCN(IM) is most likely to press for in Tuesday’s meeting is a firm commitment from the Government that the issues earlier agreed upon would become visible on the ground. “The Government must implement its commitments made in the earlier rounds of talks,” Shimrang said, pointing at the issues raised during a people’s consultation that the NSCN(IM) held on Friday.
The people’s consultation had clearly said that the ceasefire should not be extended simply because it needed to be extended. “Let the Government make it clear that it is sincere in its efforts to resolve the Naga issue respectfully,” the NGOs and civil society groups had made it clear."
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