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Dimapur VOL. IX ISSUE 156
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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way
India and China hold first major talks since Modi win
reflections
By Sandemo Ngullie
Monday, June 9, 2014 12 pages Rs. 4 –Henry Miller
Vikheho inaugurates Ighavito, Messi sends Laza-Phuyeqa villages Argentina to World Cup [ PAGE 2] with goal Sisi sworn in as Egypt’s president, cool reception from West [ PAGE 12]
Youthful Miranda Kerr, 31, exudes radiance...
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Colombia to set up truth commission Phenomenal women – living invisible lives Abokali Jimomi Dimapur | June 8
Bad news,ending the naga political problem is not gonna happen any time soon. Good news were getting a new train service!”
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NSCN (IM) clarifies on report OKING, JUNE 8 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) has once again clarified that solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political issue will be on the basis of the “Unique history and situation of the Nagas” as mutually agreed between the Government of India during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Prime Minister ship and NSCN on the 11 July 2002 which shall be honorable and acceptable to both the parties/entities. The MIP of the NSCN (IM) gave this statement in view of the “mischievous reportage” that appeared in some national and local media concerning the Naga political solution that will emerge from the current political dialogue with the Government of India. “With due regard and respect for the aspiration of other peoples in the region,” stated the NSCN (IM) referring to the report that appeared in The Telegraph on May 28, “comparing the IndoNaga political negotiated settlement on the line of Mizo Truce is totally unfounded and baseless.”
Chandrababu Naidu takes oath as Andhra Pradesh CM
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GUNtUr (ANdhrA PrAdEsh), JUNE 8 (IANs) : Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu took oath as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh here Sunday. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered the oath to Naidu near Guntur town in the presence of tens of thousands of people. Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, union ministers Ananth Kumar and M. Venkaiah Naidu, the chief ministers of Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Goa and Nagaland and leaders of various parties attended the swearing-in ceremony.
Members of the Mothers of the Candelaria group, an association of relatives of people who were disappeared during the armed conflict in Colombia, protest against the same. The Marxist FARC rebels and Colombian government have agreed to recognise victims on both sides of the country’s conflict and to set up a truth commission (AGENCIES).
BOGOtA, JUNE 8 (AGENcIEs): Negotiators trying to end Latin America’s oldest civil war have agreed to set up a truth commission that addresses the deaths of thousands of people in five decades of conflict. The move on Saturday is seen as a stride toward a possible peace deal in Colombia. “What we are announcing today is a historic step forward on the effort to put victims at the centre of the (peace) process,” said ex-vice president Humberto de la Calle. “These principles are unprecedented - never heard of before in Colombia, or in any other peace process,” the leader of President Juan Manuel Santos’s negotiating team stressed at the Cuban-hosted talks. The Marxist FARC rebels and Colombian government also agreed to recognise victims on both sides of the conflict, as well as address victims’ rights, reparations and safety guarantees. Preliminary truth commission panel hearings are due to start next
month in several locations. “We are taking the first steps in a process full of thorny issues and enormous misunderstandings,” FARC lead negotiator Ivan Marquez said. The two sides promised in a joint statement that they would “not be trading blame” at this stage. The date of the next rounds of peace talks has yet to be announced. The FARC meanwhile declared a unilateral ceasefire starting on Monday ahead of a June 15 presidential runoff pitting Santos, of the centre-right, against conservative Ivan Zuluaga. The ceasefire will stretch June 9-30, said FARC chief Timoleon Jimenez. Talks to end the FARC’s 50-year-old insurgency have been under way since November 2012. Santos has said he hopes to accelerate the process, but with less than two weeks to go, its future will depend on the outcome of the election. Zuluaga has said there can only be a peace if the FARC - with an estimated 7000-8000 fighters - declares
a permanent ceasefire and its leaders go to jail. Among key issues still to be ironed out are the surrender of weapons by the FARC and how to enshrine a comprehensive peace agreement in law. The cease-fire was announced in a letter addressed to right-wing presidential challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga. “We want to tell the country, through you, our decision to declare another unilateral ceasefire for the occasion of the second round of elections to the presidency of the republic,” read the letter, which was signed by FARC leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko. The leftist rebels had also declared a cease-fire during the firstround presidential election on May 25. Incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos won 26 percent of the vote while Zuluaga won 29 percent. A candidate must win 50 percent of the votes in order to avoid a runoff.
“Human beings are more alike than we are unalike,” said Maya Angelou. Norms, barriers etched in the mind, and borders demarcate our existence, like bold, red geographical boundary lines on political maps; yet, humans all, traverse the same pattern of time - living now, gone tomorrow. Our history overflows with stories of wars, glory and defeat; of mighty warriors and villains – about which man conquered which land, or about the most powerful ruler… little is narrated or known about the woman’s story; as though women in history were made to wear invisibility cloaks. Untold and unremembered, our stories are lost in oblivion. It is uncommon to hear something like ‘this is an epic tale of our grandmothers, upon migrating to the new village site this is how they nurtured children… these were their issues etc.’ If both sides of the story were regarded equally important, who knows what refreshing and profound insights we would be privy to? The uncensored plot, more than just the gory blood-bath side of the conqueror’s view. The script has not radically changed today. Rural Naga women are some of the most resourceful members of our society. Village life and economy will not run without women, yet limiting beliefs still hold strong such as, “I am a woman, it would be ’un-womanly’ to speak in Village Council meetings; they wouldn’t take me seriously,” said a Naga woman. We need liberation from the bondages of prejudices. There is no advantage living under suffocating cloaks of obsolete, discriminatory mindsets and laws, viewing the world though self-imposed biases, measuring fellow women by the same rod. In our Naga context, many prejudices can be toppled if women vigorously start supporting each other. In an awkward but rather humorous incident in a village, an elderly woman jokingly chided another woman, “Oye, you barren, childless woman, don’t damage my fruit tree,” in front of many of her peers who had children. The younger woman hiding her pain replied, “Be careful, old witch, I can
curse your tree to be like me.” We unconsciously reinforce biases, causing obstructions rather than paving hope. A young village woman who suffered a miscarriage had to hear this: “Your husband might lose interest in you; he may start an affair with other fertile women.” A great example of overcoming prejudices programmed into the mind that rob the human of her true potential, achieving freedom from fear to live an enriching life, is Maya Angelou, who has been a beacon of hope for millions of women in our time. Her wisdom reminds us that true power lies in how we see ourselves: “When you see me passing, It ought to make you proud. … ‘Cause I am a woman, Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.” A poet extraordinaire, a civil rights activist and a truly enlightened human being, her verses vibrate the richness of her 86 years. A woman and a child of slavery in the United States, victim of racism, rape, violence and sexual abuse, who also resorted to prostitution, her sufferings were as important as her joys, indispensible for her journey of enlightenment. The metamorphosis of a cocooned caterpillar to a butterfly: an icon of endurance and courage embracing beauty and wisdom in fullness that this one life has to offer. For women, and men as well, we learn that the attitude of hope and courage is one of the most empowering weapons to lead phenomenal lives, as the poet wonderfully puts: Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? … Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
electricity: over-loaded equipment plaguing supply Morung Express news Dimapur | June 8
The problem of ageing and over-loaded electricity distribution system came to the fore again as several localities in Dimapur went without electricity for two days straight. The major reason attributed was ‘over-loading’ resulting in ‘technical problems’. According to department officials, 20 MVA Metha sub-station and 12.5 MVA 4th Mile substation encountered major technical snags on June 7 resulting in a black-out which affected a number of localities. At Metha sub-station, one important instrument (current transformer) conked off completely, paralysing distribution to localities drawing power from the sub-station. It affected Notun Basti, LRC colony, Naga Cemetery area, Khermahal, NST colony and the Clock Tower area. A ‘current transformer’ conked off at Metha substation on the morning of June 7, one official said. The nature of damage demanded a replacement and supply to the affected localities could be restored only on Sunday afternoon, the official explained. The same day at around 6:30 am, the 4th Mile sub-station also encountered a problem. It affected the surrounding area drawing power from
Northeast to receive monsoon rain in 48 hours GUWAhAtI, JUNE 8 (tNN): With the arrival of monsoon in Kerala, the countdown has begun in the northeast. The met department has predicted rain in the next 48 hours. Met officials said a favourable condition for monsoon has been created in the northeast, with many parts of the region expecting heavy downpour. “We are expecting monsoon to hit our region in the next 48 hours,” a met official said. According to met officials, the cyclonic circulation over Assam, Meghalaya and its neighbouring areas has risen up to 3.1 km above
the sea level, making the condition favourable for the onset of monsoon. Several places in Tripura and Nagaland received light to moderate rainfall. Heavy to very heavy rainfall was recorded in certain places of Meghalaya, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh during the last 24 hours. Weather forecasts say heavy rain may occur in isolated places of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya during the next 48 hours. The south-west monsoon hit Kerala on Friday, delayed by four days. Northeast, in turn, received a delayed monsoon which generally set in by June 5.
the sub-station, including CIHSR. The problem could be rectified after a lapse of more than 12 hours at around midnight. The restoration however does not mean uninterrupted supply as normal load-shedding will continue till supply from the regional load dispatch centre in Shillong picks up. On Sunday, peak hours, according to the North Eastern Regional Load Despatch Centre power drawal schedule, Nagaland
was drawing well beyond the allocated quota. At one point, the allocated quota went well below 70 MWs, which was almost 50 percent less than Nagaland’s approximate requirement of 110 MWs. Further, with meteorologists predicting the arrival of the monsoon in the north-east, supply is expected to improve over the next few days. However, it hinges on how the rains treat the catchment areas at the generating stations.
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