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LIFE ON THE BORDERS • Road to one of Peren’s last villages • Four years after PMGSY, Njauna still doesn’t see a motor-able road Morung Express News Njuana | May 3

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When the construction for a blacktopped road up to Njuana, the last village in the remote part of Peren district bordering Manipur, was announced in 2012 under the Pradan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) scheme, the villagers of Njuana rubbed their weary legs and heaved a sigh of relief. While a semblance of development has reached every nook and corner of the state; here, in this part of the world, even basic amenities like healthcare, drinking water, electricity and road had virtually remained non-existent. Even now, the quality of life is still dependent on travelling by foot and traditional healers (koberaz) in times of illness. To reach Jalukie, which is at least 100 kilometers away; the villagers wake up at 2:00am in the morning, take a torch-light, and hike for two hours to Ndoma village junction in order to catch the Mahindra pickup passenger service which arrives from Kedang village under Manipur. But not many can afford the fare. In times of emergency; the villagers take another route which is

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All mud, slush and craters on the road to Njuana village. (Morung Photo)

arduous and more costly. It takes eight hours marathon trek via Lalung-Ngam-Nsong to reach Tening, the nearest town. From there, one would have to take a conveyance to Peren, Jalukie or Dimapur. Getting to a doctor remained a far greater ordeal for the villagers. “If its medical emergency, we carry the sick in bamboo stretcher till Ntuma village. From there we hire a vehicle to the nearest hospital or call one from Tening,” Masang, secretary of Njuana Village Council stated. Earlier, the inhabitants had to carry sick persons on bamboo stretchers all the way to Tening PHC for medical care. Of late, a private Bolero pick-up, which has been transformed into a 14-seater vehicle, ferries passen-

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Funds there, contractors not doing enough Four years since the ‘official’ commencement of the road, the

be executed,” Masang, secretary Njuana Village Council said. The villagers are now doubtful whether they will ever see a proper motor-able road reach their village. In their quest for a road, the villagers have knocked all possible doors, “We asked TR Zeliang for a road link at least till Ndoma, but he hasn’t done anything except his assurance. Once, we approached Namri Nchang. He said there was no central scheme at the moment.” Discounted, there is an apparent feeling of misgiving felt by the villager of being looked upon as ‘outsiders.’ “We even told the contractors, we are all Nagas, do your work effectively,” said Achu, head GB of Njuana village. Against tax imposition by Manipur Folks at Njuana still recall the history of how their village stood up against tax imposition by Manipur administration so that they could be under Nagaland. According to their history, Njuana refused to pay tax to Manipur when its administration came asking. “We wanted to be with Nagaland so we refused to pay tax,” Masang said. The villagers even reportedly refused to hand over at least a ‘blunt dao’ as a token of acquiescence. As consequence, two elders was arrested and taken to Imphal. The villagers immediately journeyed all the way to Kohima and highlighted the situation, only after which Njuana and its territory came under Nagaland state.

Bloody sunday: 9 killed in tobu

• Eight Assam Rifles personnel slain, nine more injured • One unidentified gunman killed Morung Express News Dimapur | May 3

Eight personnel of the 23 Assam Rifles (AR) were killed on Sunday afternoon at around 2:30pm when armed gunmen ambushed an AR convoy near Changlangshu Village in the Upper Konyak Region under Tobu subdivision, Mon district. The eight died on the spot, Mon Superintendent of Police (SP), Imsusangba Sangtam informed. One of the gunmen who ambushed the AR personnel was also killed in the exchange of gunfire and remains unidentified, the SP informed. It was also revealed that 9 AR personnel were seriously injured in the ambush. EAC Tobu, Temsuchuba Jamir informed that the AR personnel were travelling in two vehicles – one tanker and one mini-truck – and were on their way to collect water when they were ambushed. The EAC informed that explosives were used by the gunmen and added that the exchange of gunfire lasted for about 15 minutes. While no group has claimed responsibility for the ambush till the filing of this report, sources speculated that the NSCN (K) was involved. The SP Mon further informed that Nagaland Police personnel are assisting the Assam Rifles in conducting a search operation in the area. Meanwhile the DC for Mon, Honje Konyak convened a meeti ng with the village gaurds and the police at his residence. Another meeting is scheduled for May 15.

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GPRN/NSCN concerned by regular violations of CFSGR

DIMAPUR, MAY 3 (MExN): The GPRN/ NSCN today expressed serious concern that “violation and breach” of agreed Ceasefire Ground Rules (CFGR) by Indian security forces is “becoming a regular trend despite many reminders by the GPRN.” A press note from the MIP of the GPRN/NSCN alleged that on May 2, at around 3:00am, Assam Rifles raided the private residence of Kilonser Imto at Showba village for more than two hours “where no piece of suspicious or illegal possessions was found.” This incident, the GPRN/NSCN said serves as a reminder of the act of violence if you want to reach Kohi- meted out against the Nagas in the past ma or Wokha without any few decades. It urged the higher authorihitch...uummm take that ties to rein-in their personnel and stop tractor. “misadventures.” It reminded that CFSB Chairman, Lt.

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gers from Jalukie up to Njuana. The service is irregular because of the pathetic condition of the road. The road is appalling as it was at the time of first cutting; particularly during rainy season. Just recently, during the last week of April, a medical team from Kohima bound for Njuana turned back from Tening after they discovered that the road could only be accessed by timber trucks. In such a forbidding scenario, a blacktopped road connecting Lalong and Njuana assured optimistic vistas for the villagers facing numerous developmental challenges.

centrally sponsored PMGSY road to Njuana is yet to see the light of day. For reasons unknown, soiling and metalling of the road begun only on 2014, the villagers informed. That is, even though the first installment was already sanctioned to the respective contractors. According to the sign boards on the road, the PMGSY funded project under the Ministry of Rural Development is undertaken by two contractors M/s Regency construction & Co and M/s Akhrieu & Co. Ngam - Lalong road has a length of 13 kilometers and is projected at 523.51 lakhs while Lalong – Njauna with 15 kilometers is estimated at a cost of 534.43 lakhs. The work was executed under the Executive Engineer, Roads & Bridges, PWD, Peren. An engineer under PWD Roads & Bridges, Peren when contacted over the delay of the road construction, could not specify the reason why and said, “Only the contractors know best the reason for the delay.” “The contractors are not doing enough. Government has already sanctioned funds. How come it took three years for them to begin their work?” the Njuana Village Council executives questioned during an interaction. The progress of the road is sluggish and quality of workmanship very poor. “We have complained to the PWD department officials in Kohima, and apprised them of the situation and categorically told them not to release the second installment if this is how work is to

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Gen (Rtd) N.K. Singh had stated that “when Assam Rifles personnel raid houses and if nothing incriminating is found, then it amounts to harassment.” In line with his statement, the very raid on Kilonser Imto’s residence on May 2 is a clear case of harassment as no suspicious materials were found, the GPRN/NSCN said. It strongly condemned that “continuous addictive and evil designs of Assam Rifles despite the cease-fire being in force” and cautioned that there “could have been a catastrophic incident which the Assam Rifles would have been fully responsible.” The GPRN/NSCN further cautioned that “if any informer of Assam Rifles is caught then he/she shall be charged with treason and awarded capital punishment for which GPRN/NSCN shall not be held responsible.”

High alert along Assam-Nagaland border

JORHAT, MAY 3 (PTI): Security forces have been kept on “high alert” along the Assam-Nagaland border in Jorhat district to prevent any untoward situation following reports of temporary houses being built by people from Nagaland. According to Jorhat SP, Amanjit Kaur “security forces from both the states were kept on high alert” so that no third force could enter either side for creating more problem. She said the police have received reports of local residents from both the sides being prepared to fight with weapons like bow, arrow, spears and guns at Rongkham area in

Tiru Hills Reserve Forest under Teok police station. Tension prevailed following reports that people from Nagaland erected over 60 huts in the area that falls in the D-sector of the border belt between the two states. Kaur said the huts were demolished this morning by the Assam Police in presence of the Nagaland Police after they were confirmed to be illegal by the Jorhat district administration and the Forest Department. Additional forces have set up seven temporary camps near the entry and exit points from Nagaland in Rongkham since last evening, she said.

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NSCN (K) to ‘fight to the last’

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DIMAPUR, MAY 3 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today asserted that it would “fight to the last remaining man and shall never be cowed down by the threat of collaborators and traitors.” A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (K) affirmed its determination to “uphold and carry on the struggle regardless of persistent anti-Naga and anti-NSCN campaign launched by Naga collaborators and Indian agencies after entering into ceasefire with India.” It claimed that 14 years of ceasefire with Government of India has “proved to be anti-thesis in resolving the outstanding and long overdue Naga political issue.” India, it said, has failed to express any indication or inclination to discuss and resolve the conflict.

The NSCN (K), it said, has “fully perceived the irretrievable political abyss pre-planned by India to enmesh the NSCN and the Nagas through delaying tactics and induce false hope...” The NSCN (K) further censured the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland for “branding NSCN/GPRN as traitors for attacking the occupational army and openly advocating unbridled retaliatory terror of Indian army against Naga civilians...” It also wondered as to why an anti-corruption group would condemn and censor Naga army assault on Indian army “or would dare to reprove NSCN termination of ceasefire agreement with India when the issue has nothing to do with them.”

The NSCN (K) further expressed concern at the Angami Youth Organisation’s (AYO) decision to boycott cooperation and support to it. The NSCN, it stated, “endorses the pioneering and unparalleled sacrifices and patriotism of Angami Nagas in nurturing, promoting and guiding the Naga freedom movement since the British intrusion in Naga kingdom till the present time.” It expressed hope that the “momentary lapse of judgement by individual AYO leader(s) or the deliberate and long conceived policy of an individual AYO leader(s) shall not be given an upper hand to betray the most honourable martyrdoms of the Angami tribe.” Full text on Page 5

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Phek, May 3 (MexN): The Tizu Area Public Welfare Organisation (TAPWO) has appealed to its representative, Parliamentary Secretary Yitachu, not to forget the people of other areas of his constituency, in an apparent reference to the Chakhesang people under 20th Meluri A/C. In a statement, TAPWO noted that “fortunately or unfortunately” nine Chakhesang villages fall under 20th Meluri assembly constituency since statehood. “This arrangement/shuffling was done by our forerunner leaders as our brothers Pochury people alone could not Fog gathers at a newly burnt jhum field at Lalong village, some 30 kilometers away from Tening town in Peren district. With make a constituency at that no other sustainable options for livelihood, the main occupations of the people in this remote area continue to be farming, time. Secondly, in order to hunting and logging. (Photo by Imti Longchar) create cordial relationship

amongst brotherhood so long we remain together as Chakhesang.” But, today, the statement lamented, “this good sense of our leaders has victimized us on both sides of the coins because of the fact that our Chakhesang representatives both in the past and present ignored our grievances for being part of 20th Meluri A/C while our own representative makes no differences.” To affirm its point, TAPWO stated that in Tizu area, there is no development, no special packages, no backward quota, no employment, no DUDA quota and no road connectivity till today “though we considered ourselves most backward area in all

round compared to other area even within 20th Meluri A/C.” The statement appended by TAPWO president Vechineyi Khesoh and general secretary Shekhohu Chizo further cited that “educational backward quota has been availing either by the advanced Chakhesang brothers or by Pochury brothers respectively.” A distance of 3 km between K. Khuno and Tehephu villages in the area is yet to be connected till today, it added. “Our kutcha road to K.Khuno, Tehephu and Suthotsu and from Sohomi to Kizari via Kotisu are only seasonal roads.” The roads, it said, can be used only from November end to March/April as the

NSF conference at Khonoma from May 13

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ko h i M a , M ay 3 (MexN): The 26th general conference of the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) under the theme “Towards a just society” with Angami Students’ Union as host, will take place at Khonoma village under Kohima district from May 13 to 16. Chief Minister TR Zeliang will be the chief guest, while union minister for state (i/c) Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Sarbananda Sonowal will be the conference guest. Minister for social welfare & parliamentary affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie will be the introductory guest, while Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio will be the valedictory guest. The special guest

of the conference include; RN Ravi, interlocutor Indo– Naga peace talks, John Dickson, chairman, Global Young Leader Academy & president World Trade and Development Group, Washington DC, USA; and Arthur, Youth Chief of the Sabah United People’s Party & Cochair of Centre for Public Policy Studies Malaysia. Theme session will take place on May 14 at 5:30 pm with Rev. Dr. Wati Aeir, principal, Oriental Theological Seminary, Dimapur as the speaker. Greetings will be shared by Abeiu Meru, president, Naga Mother’s Association, P. Chuba Ozukum, president, Naga Hoho and NPMHR. Solidarity messages by

Dr. Samujjal Bhattacharya, advisor, NESO and AASU, president/General secretary All Assam Students’ Union, Samuel B. Jyrwqa, chairman NESO, president, Khasi Students’ Union. Debate hour on the topic “GoI is serious to solve Naga political issue” will take place on May 14 at 2:00 pm. Every federating units and subordinate bodies are to reach Khonoma village latest by 3 pm on May 13. Every federation units have been requested to bring two traditional shawls of both genders and every federating units and subordinate bodies have been asked to bring 2 of their respective flags mea- Mokokchung Town Baptist Church Youth Department’s Crossroad Club members pose for lens after their environmental suring 4x6. drive programme, which was held under the theme "Go Green" at Tzula Dikhu Green Zone Project, Mokokchung.

Manipur (Hill Area) Autonomous District Council Election 2015

NPF constitutes election campaign committees Our Correspondent Kohima | May 3

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Large scale potato cultivation at Khuzama village under Kohima district. (Morung Photo)

Kidima Catholic Juniors’ Association celebrates silver jubilee

kohiMa, May 3 (MexN): The Kidima Catholic Juniors’ Association of St. Francis Xavier Church in commemoration of its silver jubilee organised a ‘variety show’ on the night of May 2 at Kidima village council hall. The convenor of Silver Jubilee Organising Committee of Kidima Catholic Juniors’ Association, Kekhrüseto Paul informed that the purpose of the variety show was to build confidence of the youths in leadership, public appearance, and to impart moralilty and guide into the essence of re-

sponsible person and to motivate them for the competitive world. Earlier, invocation prayer was pronounced by Reverend Father Thomas Muttathil, St Xavier Parish Priest. Prayer song, A Tale of Ivan the Fool (drama), On the Palm of His Hand (song), Happy Family, dance and for You and Me (N La Mu A La) were the highlights of the show. Vote of thanks was proposed by Kekhrülenu Emimina Sachü. Students, parents, government officials and academicians participated in the variety show.

In view of the forthcoming Manipur (Hill Area) Autonomous District Council election 2015, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) of the Manipur State unit in-charge held an emergency meeting on April 15 and decided to constitute district level election campaign committees. Group A (Tamenglong): Team leader - CL. John. Members- Neiba Kronu, Pohwang, Amenba Yaden, NR Zeliang, Karaibo Chawang, Shepo Hiesuh, Tonlih Wangsa, Aphien and Hetoli Achumi. Group B (Churachanpur &

Sadar Hills): Team leader - Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire. MembersYitachu, Khriehu Liezietsu, Toyang Chang, Er. Picto, Thangsat Kuki, Ngamom Konyak, Thangkeng Khongsai, Mesele Assumi, Liangsi, Minkamlak (Zizi) and Avinuo Riipre-o. Group C (Ukhrul): Team leaderY. Patton. Members- R. Tohanba, N. Thongwang Konyak, YM Yollow, Huska Yepthomi, T. N. Mannen, Achamo Kikon, S. Medom, Keyiekhrienuo and Ekonlumi (Aruna). Group C (Chandel): Team leader- P. Longon. Members- C. Kipili Sangtam, Shetoyi, S. Chuba, EE Pangteang, Naiba Konyak, Zaku Tsukru, Penathung, Tali Sangtam, Y. Alemla Chang and Toshila Sangtam. Group E: Team leader- Kiyanilie Peseyie. Members- Nuklutoshi, Y.

Vikheho Swu, Kejong Chang, Deo Nukhu, Jacob Zhimomi, Dr. Longrineken, T. Torechu, Pukhayi, Achumbemo Kikon, Pushika, Hotoshe, Kikovi Kirha, Neizokhotuo Belho, Kere-u Pfukha and Neilatuo-ii. Group F: Apong Pongener, working president- i/c Manipur State unit office Senapati. This was stated in a notification issued by NPF secretary general KG Kenye and the same was announced by Neiba Kronu, parliamentary secretary and chairman central committee for Manipur state unit during ticket distribution ceremony here Saturday at NPF Central office. Campaign of NPF for the Manipur (Hill Area) Autonomous District Council election will kick start on May 12 at Senapati.

New Chumukedima ‘B’ Khel general meeting ChuMukeDiMa, May 3 (MexN): The general meeting of New Chumukedima ‘B’ Khel has been convened on May 9, 11:00 am at TL Angami Park. All the village patta holders of New Chumukedima ‘B’ Khel, either originally allotted or purchased from the

original allottees or those who failed to develop their plot of land within time frame and also those who are paying their house tax to the government regularly including all the contribution within the ‘B’ Khel, have been requested to attend the meeting posi-

tively for final clarification. Meanwhile, all houses and landowner registration will be done on the same day, informed a press release received here. Further, it informed that no one shall be allowed to possess any portion of ‘B’ Khel land without the

consent of the landowner. As per earlier notification, all land sale and purchase done without the knowledge of the landowner are treated as cancelled, it said, adding no further entertainment shall be made in favour of any person failing to attend the said meeting.

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temporary bridge made with bamboos and woods is always swept away by the monsoon rain. Since Tizu area falls under Meluri A/C, TAPWO said the people in the area were anxiously anticipating that the genuine and long felt demand of the area could be taken up for the first time in the District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) meeting by the representative, who is now heading the DPDB, Phek. “But Alas! What wrong have we done so that not a single genuine and long felt demand of our people could not be forwarded to the govt. when our own elected representative himself chairing in an opportune time.”

DC Dimapur calls meeting today

DiMaPur, May 3 (MexN): The deputy commissioner of Dimapur, who is also the chairman of the Indian Red Cross Society, Dimapur Branch has invited all the community representatives & NGOs to attend a meeting to be held at Durga Mandir ground hall, G.S. Road here on May 4 at 3:15 pm. The main agenda of the meeting is to deliberate on the relief collection drive for the victims of Nepal earthquake, informed a press release issued by Ajay Sethi, vice chairman, Indian Red Cross Society, Dimapur branch.

Head of schools under Dimapur dist informed

DiMaPur, May 3 (MexN): All the principals, head masters, and head teachers of both government and private schools under Dimapur district have been requested to collect pre-matric scholarship forms for students of class 1-8 for 2015-16 from the office of the Sub-Divisional Education Officer (SDEO) Dimapur and SDEO Niuland on or before May 16. The last date of submission of forms by the head of the institution along with income certificates to the SDEO office is June 5. This was informed in a press release issued by deputy district education officer, Dimapur, R Amongla Jamir.

Nagaland Bhojpuri Samaj donates for Nepal victims

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DiMaPur, May 3 (MexN: The Nagaland Bhojpuri Samaj (NBS) today donated a sum of Rs 50,000 to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, for the earthquake victims of Nepal. In its meeting held at Hotel Silhouette, the NBS observed a 2-minute silence for the earthquake victims and also prayed for the speedy recovery of those injured in the devastating earthquake.

Village Legal Care & Support Centre at Dhansiripar village

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DiMaPur, May 3 (MexN): Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) conducted legal awareness programme at Dhansaripar village in Dimapur on May 2, which was followed by formal inauguration of Village Legal Care and Support Centre by the Chief Guest N. Kanuo, District and Sessions Judge, Dimapur/ Chairman DDLSA, accompanied by DDLSA panel advocates/resource persons. According to a press release, the purpose of setting up the centre was to provide inexpensive legal relief, easily accessible to the indigent and backward section of the society. Legal service extends to all cases of civil, criminal and all cases involving violation of fundamental rights as guaranteed by the constitution of India. DDLSA also organizes Lok Adalat for settlement of prelitigation and pending cases thereby avoiding costs, Seen are the pictures taken before (top) and after (bottom) repairing the potholes on National delay and ensuring speedy Highway at Saron colony in Wokha town by the Saron Colony Youth Organisation (SCYO) justice. It also conducts legal on May 2. (Photo courtesy: SCYO) awareness among the pub-

Chief Guest N. Kanuo, District and Sessions Judge, Dimapur/Chairman DDLSA, along with the panel advocates and others during the inauguration of Village Legal Care and Support Centre, Dhansiripar village.

lic on various social and legal importance, the release added. The legal awareness programme was chaired by Glory Sema, Panel Advocate, DDLSA. Village Council Chairman, Dhansiripar, delivered the welcome speech; Ela, Director, Prod-

igals Home, shared a note of appreciation; N. Kanuo, District and Sessions Judge, Dimapur/ Chairman, DDLSA, highlighted on Nagaland Village Council Act, 1978. Panel Advocates Esther K Aye, Asungbe, Livika V Sumi and Adv. Limasenla Longkumer, covered vari-

ous legal topics and legislative welfare schemes, namely Juvenile Justice Act, RTI, Domestic Violence, Legal Aid, Women Right, Lok Adalat, Human Trafficking, Rape Victim/Compensation, National Social Assistance Schemes etc. The programme was

attended by various organizations, schools, unions, churches of Dhansiripar village as well as neighboring villages. The participants discussed various grievances regarding Old Age Pension scheme, destitute of women and disability scheme, RTI during the interaction.

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REgional Imphal-Ukhrul road bandh called off

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The indefinite bandh imposed on the Imphal-Ukhrul road by a joint action committee following the violent incident that occurred on April 30 at Gwaltabi village has been lifted. Gwaltabi is located on the border of Imphal East and Ukhrul district. On April 30, some 30 houses and 10 shops in Gwaltabi were al-

legedly destroyed during a bandh called by All Tribal Chiefs’ Forum Manipur (ATCFM) demanding proper implementation of MGNREGS. ATCFM volunteers were reportedly prevented from enforcing the strike by Gwaltabi villagers following which Gwaltabi was allegedly attacked, resulting in tension. On Sunday, a public meeting attended by Thawai Khul chief Ng Kathing along with some villag-

Nepali man accused of raping Assam girl held in Delhi GurGaon, May 3 (IanS): A Nepali man, accused of raping a girl from Assam who was working at a guest house here, was on Sunday arrested in Delhi, police said. The 23-year-old Nepali man, Debu Tamang alias Dev Bahadur, was arrested from Aya Nagar area of south Delhi. Police said Bahadur - who was a cook was planning to move to his

hometown in Nepal. He is accused of raping a 19-yearold girl from Assam at a guest house in DLF-1 area here on April 29. Both the girl and the accused worked in the same guest house. The girl in her police complaint alleged that she informed the woman manager of the guest house about the incident but she did not cooperate and helped Bahadur in escaping.

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ers, MLA Victor Keishing, Deputy Speaker Preshow Shimray, representatives of Gwaltabi including local club and meira paibis was held at the official residence of MLA Kh Biren here. Khathing apologised for the incident and it was agreed that hostilities would cease. The JAC also decided to lift the indefinite bandh it had imposed along the ImphalUkhrul road with immediate effect following assurances from the state

Chief Minister and the concerned MLAs to pay compensation for the losses in Gwaltabi village by May 15. The JAC resolved that it would re-impose the bandh if the Government goes back on its assurance. Many social organizations including United Committee Manipur, All Manipur United Clubs’ Organisations have called upon the people to exercise restraint and calm over the incident.

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CHANGPANG VILLAGE COUNCIL Sub-Division Bhandari, Wokha: Nagaland

NOTICE Observing misspelling of its original nomenclature “CHANGPANG” in several occasions in various official letters and Press Release, the Changpang Village Council hereby declares all concerns to write correct spelling ie. CHANGPANG instead of writing Jampang, Champang. Secondly, it has observed that in various occasions the name of CHANGPANG VILLAGE is written as Changpang-I and Changpang-II, whereas there is no such village by name Changpang-I and Changpang-II and the only ancestral government recognized village is CHANGPANG VILLAGE under Changpang EAC HQ. Thirdly, the Changpang Village Council also observed that some vested interest landowners are indulged in selling their respective land and oil well head illegally to other party(s)/ private oil company (s) and brokers without the knowledge of the village council, which is totally breach Nagaland Village Council Act 1978, Article No.15, Village Administration Clause-1 sub-clause-g. Hence, the council prohibits such illegal selling of land in and around the jurisdiction of Changpang Village Council as per the resolution adopted in a general meeting held on 29th December’2011, failing which the seller or purchaser will be doing so on their own risk/peril.

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sity of Political Science and Law in 2013, after publishing an article critical of the government. “The Communist Party expects the people it rules to be ignorant, but they would not expect themselves to be like this.” As China seeks to play a more decisive role on the global stage, such exposure is becoming more important — at least for those at the forefront of transforming China’s economy and international role. For everyone else, education has become an ideological battleground, where destabilizing Western values must be vanquished lest they weaken the party’s grip on power. “Young teachers and students are key targets of infiltration by enemy forces,” Education Minister Yuan Guiren wrote in a January essay. Around the same time, he told university officials to bar “teaching materials that disseminate Western values,” state-run news agency Xinhua reported. His remarks came shortly after Beijing issued new guidelines ordering universities to promote loyalty to the party, core socialist values, and the teachings of Xi himself. Meanwhile, Westerners con-

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n the still, early hours, cadres make their way down tree-lined paths. They walk through a polished lobby, down dim hallways and settle themselves in rows in plain, woodpaneled classrooms. Here, they sit at the vanguard of the Communist Party of China. These rising Communist Party members from across the country have come to the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP) in Shanghai as part of the party’s decade-long effort to introduce its own elite to foreign ideas. Outside these walls, President Xi Jinping’s government is campaigning to scrub Western influence from classrooms, but here some 10,000 party loyalists each year hear from top Western scholars and executives about management techniques, media relations, urban development and innovation. “It does no harm for top leaders to get to know different ideas in the world,” said Zhang Xuezhong, who was barred from teaching at East China Univer-

tinue to march through CELAP, bringing with them an uncontrollable parade of ideas. Over 470 government leaders, business executives and academics from over 30 countries have taught at CELAP, according to the school, which says it has partnered with Harvard Business School, the Wharton School, Columbia Business School, Oxford University and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The school also has tie-ups with IBM China and Procter & Gamble China. Located near the intersection of “Splendid” and “Career” streets, the school can accommodate up to 800 cadres for one- to three-week courses, CELAP officials said. Thousands of party schools across China form an important network for maintaining control over the party’s more than 86 million members, improving governance and incubating new ideas, according to China historian David Shambaugh. CELAP, which does not offer degrees, was one of three academies founded in 2005 to train high-ranking cadres. Since then, it has hosted more than 100,000 students. Foreigners teach

around 12 percent of the classes, according to the school. Lectures on media relations and financial reform are tempered by exercises in the “party-building lab.” The deeper goal, some argue, is to help top cadres strike the correct balance between worldliness and ideological purity in China’s shifting political environment. “These cadres who have to mingle daily with foreign business people are treading a fine line,” said Willy Lam, an expert in Chinese politics at Hong Kong’s Chinese University. “China is going to play a much bigger role in trying to transform the international financial order,” he added. “Before you can transform the international financial order in line with Chinese priorities, you must learn the ropes.” CELAP is not the only place where party orthodoxy gets salted with new ideas. Even within the ideological strictures of other party schools, human curiosity thrives, said Xia Yeliang, an economics professor who was dismissed from Peking University in 2013 after criticizing the government. The school’s official reason

I-T dept collects Rs 6.96 lakh crore revenue, falls short by 14% New Delhi, May 3 (PTi): “The sluggish growth, especially in service sectors and the Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) category took a toll on the direct taxes collection. The department, in spite of these challenges, achieved the best it could,” they said. Government collected over Rs 6,96,200 crore revenue under the direct taxes kitty in the just concluded financial year 2014-15, about 14% short of target. Officials said the I-T Department which collects a variety of taxes like Income Tax and Corporate Tax collected approximately Rs 6,96,200 crore in the fiscal ending March 31, 2015. The achieved collections are about Rs 9,000 crore or 14% short of the projected target of Rs 7,05,000 crore. The collections are, however, 19% more than the last fiscal. In FY14, the mop-up was Rs 5,83,000 crore. The government had revised the direct tax collection target to Rs 7,05,000 crore for the fiscal 2014-15 against the initial projection of Rs 7,36,000 crore in view of the sluggish economic growth. The tax department, the officials said, could register a growth of only 8% in the most crucial TDS category as compared to 18% under the same category during the previous fiscal. The department, an earlier data in this regard had said, registered a low growth under the Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) category as it recorded only 18.5% collections on this front as compared to the 24.5% growth in the corresponding period last year.

for his termination was poor student evaluations. He began giving occasional lectures on constitutional democracy and Western rule of law at a party school in Beijing in 2008, even though he quit the party by ending his payment of dues, which were about 5 percent of his salary. “They never asked me if I’m a party member,” he said. “What I taught was quite against their traditional values, but they still kept inviting me.” He said many of his students yearned for fresh ideas to help explain China’s path and new answers to restive questions about traditional Marxism and socialism. Last month, a U.S. delegation came to CELAP to discuss clean energy innovation. The visit afforded reporters rare access to the school. Officials from state-owned enterprises, banks and insurance companies packed the audience. You Xiang, president of Jiaozuo City Commercial Bank in central China’s Henan Province, said CELAP gives people on the front lines of China’s globalization in- New Delhi, May 3 (iaNS): The ministry of urban valuable insight. development will notify the guidelines for 100 smart cities project across the country next week, official sources here said. The union cabinet last week approved the Smart Cities Mission under which 100 new smart cities, which would promote adoption of smart solutions for efficient use of available assets and enhance the quality ing 100 or more workers are mented in Rajasthan. We will of urban life, would be made. The project would have an required to seek government’s oppose it on May 6 meeting. outlay of Rs.48,000 crore. permission for retrench- They cannot make law stringent An official told IANS that the detailed guidelines of the ment under the Industrial for forming trade unions,” Hind project will be notified next week. Each selected city would Mazdoor Sabha Secretary A D get central assistance of Rs.100 crore per year for five years. Dispute Act. “We will also oppose the Nagapal said. Smart City aspirants will be selected through a “City Chal“When Rajasthan Govern- lenge Competition” intended to link financing with the abilproposal to make it tougher to form trade unions. Our Presi- ment had sent the state bill with ity of the cities to perform to achieve the mission objectives. dent B N Rai will attend the tri- the provision (retrenchment) Twenty cities will be selected this year, followed by partite consultation on the bill for Presidential assent, then La- 40 each in the next two years, the source added. The US on May 6. The union is unani- bour Minister Narendra Singh has agreed to help develop Visakhapatnam, Ajmer and mous on opposing the govern- Tomar has assured us that it will Allahabad as Smart Cities. Japan has come forward to not be done. But now they want help develop Varanasi as a smart city and Singapore has ment’s proposal,” he said. At present, any seven or to amend the central law, which agreed to help develop the capital city of Andhra Pradesh. more members of a trade union would be be applicable to entire Barcelona has come forward to collaborate with DDA can apply for registration of the country,” he added. and the ministry of urban development in developing a All India Trade Union Con- smart city near Delhi. Trade Union. The proposed provision gress Secretary D L Sachdev in draft code provides that 10 said, “We will strongly oppose per cent of workers shall apply the proposal to exempt firm (be applicant) for registering a with up to 300 employees from seeking permission from the trade union. In cases where 10 per cent government to retrench and Dearest Somaina, of workers is less than 7, at new provisions which would Many many happy releast seven workers are re- discourage formation of trade turns of the day. On this quired (to apply) for the pur- unions in India.” beautiful day of yours may He suggested that governpose and where the 10 per God bless you with abuncent of workers exceed 100, ment should constitute a tripardant love & happiness. hundred workers shall be suf- tite committee with employees’ Happy Birthday to you, my ficient for registering the trade and employers’ representative dear girl. on board along experts to study union. “We have been opposing the bill in detail before firming Yours, Deta, Maa & family this when this was being imple- up the draft bill. members.

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Govt plans mega launch of Unions to protest strongly against proposed labour laws insurance, pension schemes New Delhi, May 3 (PTi): New Delhi, May 3 (PTi): On the lines of Jan Dhan mega rollout, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch on May 9 social security insurance and pension schemes in Kolkata, while other ministers will unveil them in different cities. “The enrolment for insurance and pension schemes would begin after Prime Minister launches them. However, the insurance cover would be enforced from June 1,” Department of Financial Services Secretary Hasmukh Adhia told PTI. These schemes are aimed at providing affordable universal access to essential social security protection in a convenient manner linked to auto- debit facility from the bank account of a subscriber, as per a Finance Ministry statement. The two insurance schemes Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) will provide insurance cover in case of death as well as death/disability due to an accident. The pension scheme, Atal Pension Yojana (APY), will address old age income security needs. PMSBY will offer a renewable 1 year accidental death-cum -dis-

Trade unions are up in arms over the Labour Ministry’s proposals to allow firms with up to 300 workers to retrench employees without prior permission of the government and make it tougher to form a t rade union. The proposals are part of the draft Labour Code on Industrial Relations Bill, 2015, prepared by the Labour Ministry to combine Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, the Trade Unions Act, 1926, and the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946. Central trade unions, including the BJP-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), are planning to protest strongly against the proposals. “We will protest against this provision under which firms will not have to take prior permission for retrenchment under draft Labour Code on Industrial Relation Bill 2015,” Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Zonal Organising Secretary Pawan Kumar told PTI. At present, firms employ-

ability cover of Rs 2 lakh for partial/ permanent disability to all bank account holders in the age group of 1870 years for a premium of Rs 12 per annum per subscriber. It would be administered through Public Sector General Insurance Companies (GIC) or other GICs willing to offer the product on similar terms on the choice of the bank concerned. PMJJBY will offer a renewable 1 year life cover of Rs 2 lakh to all savings bank account holders in from 18-50 years, covering death due to any reason, for a premium of Rs 330 per annum per subscriber.It would be administered through LIC or other LICs willing to offer the product on similar terms on the choice of the bank concerned. The APY will focus on the unorganised sector and provide subscribers a fixed min pension of Rs 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 or Rs 5,000 p/m starting at the age of 60 years, depending on the contribution option exercised on entering at an age between 18 and 40 years. The period of contribution by any subscriber under APY would be 20 years or more. The fixed minimum pension would be guaranteed by the govt.

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Guv's greetings on the NSCN (K) Chapllee Kilonser deputes eve of ‘buddha Purnima’ Kohima, may 3 (mExN): Extending his greeting on the eve ‘Buddha Purnima,’ the Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya on Sunday said, “On this auspicious occasion, we all bow our head with great reverence of Lord Buddha who made India great. India has become a pilgrimage centre to crores of people from all over the world irrespective of caste, creed and race.” It is the celebration of as Buddha Jayanti throughout the World based on the holy birth of Lord Buddha, his attainment of the Supreme Enlightenment and his Ma-

haparinirvan, he said. “Without a single drop of blood Buddha conquered the hearts of the people of the world and we are fortunate that crores of his followers from neighbouring countries like Thailand, Korea, Bhutan, and Japan along with other States are there,” the Governor added in his message. Acharya, who also holds governorship of Tripura and Assam further maintained that, Northeast being the gateway of India's ' “Look East policy” will be more effective based on goodwill of these crores of followers of Lord Buddha.

Dimpaur, may 3 (mExN): The Ministry of Chaplee (finance) affairs NSCN (K) has deputed Secretary Khekaho Rochill to take the charge of Chaplee (finance) Secretary for the year 2015-16. Informing this in a press note, the Kilonser Chaplee (Finance) Affairs, NSCN (K), Starson stated that all “fi-

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nancial matters shall be dealt by the assigned Chaplee Secretary except the Military allotted finance under Dimapur and commercial under Kohima district.” The notification is being issued to all concern to avoid any confusion and misunderstanding relating to financial matters, the press note added.

GMS RD Block Kikruma inaugurated KiKruma, may 3 (mExN): The Government Middle School (GMS) at RD Block Kikruma was inaugurated on April 25 with Sub-Divisional Education Officer, Pfutsero, Ngurthantluangi as the chief guest. MütsitsoThülü-o, Head-Teacher, Küzüveyo Puro led the chair, Pastor KTB Church blessed with invocation prayer and VetsonüyoTünyi, VEC said the vote of thanks. Vehüshu Vero, VCC Secretary Kikruma Village, Müdovehü Yhobü, VCC RD Block, Kikruma and Senopelo, SIS Pfutsero delivered short speeches. Khrotelo and KüzholüzoYhobü, coordinator and assistant coordinator of EBRC Pfutsero, also attended the programme.

Testing camp for Scouts & Guides held Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides successfully completed its Rajya Puraskar Testing Camp on April 29 at State Training Centre, Nerhema. A press note informed that Vimezhonu R Paphino, State Organising Commissioner (G) and Imlisunep, ASO(S), were the leaders of the course in their respective wings. The camp was assisted by State Training Commissioner (Scouts), Albert R. Solo and Amenla Soyah, State Training Commissioner (G) as Chief Examiners of the respective wing. Altogether 204 Scouts/ Guides, district officials, adult leaders and independent examiners were invited from the different districts and state headquarters. Participants (Scouts & Guides) were tested and exam-

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Participants at the Rajya Puraskar Testing Camp for Scouts and Guides which concluded on April 29 at Nerhema.

ined orally, written and practically in their skills like drill, first aid, signaling, mapping, pioneering project, community developments project, and sanitation project. Chief Commissioner and

former MP, Khyomo Lotha graced the grand campfire cum closing ceremony as the campfire chief. He was accompanied by John Tochimong, SOC(S) cum Officiating State Secretary, NSBSG.

SAMETI training Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) Nagaland organised a training on “Extension Method and Instructional Aids” from April 27 to 29 at SAMETI Training Hall, Medziphema. 22 Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) functionaries in the rank of Block Technology Managers and Agriculture Technology Managers of Agri and allied subjects from all the districts attended the training. The Resource persons, Dr. J. Longkumer Associate Professor, Dr. K.K. Jha, Associate Professor, and Mary Odyuo, Assistant Professor, imparted technical knowhow trainings to the participants on the topics - extension methods (individual, group & mass method), method demonstration, group discussion, farm publications (leaflets & folders), introduction to instructional aids, black board/white board, flip charts/flash cards/posters and power point presentation guidelines.

The NSS Self Funding Unit (SFU) of Government Higher Secondary School, Medziphema conducted social work and constructed a school toilet on April 24.

ATMA Chare Block, Tuensang on April 24 conducted demonstrations on various topics at Alisopur village. Resource person Dr. T. Arenmongla, Block Technology Manager of Chare Block, performed live demonstrations on how to prepare tobacco decoction for aphids/caterpillars, preparation of potato chips. She also spoke on cultivation techniques on brinjal, bitter gourd, strawberry and ginger. Altogether 29 farmers under Chare Block attended the programme.

Yaa , Ytc condemns Moatsu celebrated with festivity & merriment at Delhi Assam Rifles raid Dimapur , may 3 (mExN): The Yimchungru Akherü Arihako (YAA) has condemned the “unbecoming act” of Assam Rifles wherein, the residence of Major (Retd.) Yimto Kilonser GPRN/NSCN was raided in the wee hours on May 3, at Showuba Village, totally sidelining the Ceasefire ground rules. In a press note issued by its Social and Culture Secretary, Achung Jangleh the union regretted that the AR has conducted the raid despite fully knowing that Yimto is a green card holder. “AR has been violating Ceasefire ground rules time and again, raiding houses and harassing people which send a wrong message to the society,” it further alleged. The Union also urged “all concerned” to respect Naga People’s Front (NPF) president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu and others during the and adhere with Ceasefire ticket distribution ceremony in Kohima on May 2 for the forthcoming the Manipur ground rules so as to pave a way for an amicable and (Hill Area) Autonomous District Council election 2015. (Morung Photo) Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Moatsu festival in Delhi was celebrated with great festivity and merriment on May 2 with the Delhi Ao Senso Telogjem (DAST), the apex body of Aos in Delhi organising a programme featuring an array of cultural presentations, songs as well as a talk on the preservation of cultural heritage. The event commenced with welcome address from DAST President, Dr. Walunir while Moatoshi Imchen, Asstabt Professor, Faculty of Law, DU delivered the speech on the topic ‘Aoer

Sobaliba Wazuka Yudi’ (Preserving Ao’s Cultural tradition). Imchen highlighted that while religion is a belief, culture, custom and tradition are inherent since birth and further emphasised that culture should start from family. Other highlights of the day includes cultural presentation and songs by children, Delhi Ao Women group and 4th NAP Bn Ao Group. The vote of thanks was pronounced by Aosunep, Art & Cult. Secy, DAST followed by a sumpots community feast.

honourable solution. YTC: The Yimchungrü Tribal Council has also strongly condemned the raid of the residence of Major (Retd) Yimto Kilonser GPRN/ NSCN by the AR Jawans on early hours of May 3. In a press statement issued by the Press & Information Secy YTC, Z Akiu stated that such activities carried out by the AR Jawans is "unbecoming and unreasonable." It further reiterated that, he is a “green card holder” and hence should be exempted from any security checking. Regretting that such AR jawans' action sends a wrong message that contradicts the peace agreement, the YTC further maintained that, “the cease fire ground rules should be strictly adhered and avoid unnecessary raiding houses which will only invite a volatile situations.”

On behalf of GOC Corps, representative of 164 TA (h&h) (Naga) donated a constructed village marketing shed at Kanjang village in Phek district under operation Sadbhavana.

The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation officials along with Laiket Youth Organisation posing for lens after conducting a cleanliness drive at Civil Hospital, Tuensang on April 25.

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the moment of truth: NScN (K)

ore than half a century of Naga struggle for self determination has exacted incomprehensible tolls on the lives of our people beyond reparation despite inhuman sufferings in isolation from the rest of the world under the politically sanctioned draconian enactment like Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), National Security Act (NSA), Assam Security Act (ASA) etc. all over Naga country. Yet our pioneering patriots withstood all these terrorism tenaciously and handed unto us the legacy that was nurtured by their precious blood. The NSCN/GPRN though afflicted with various infirmities is only determined to uphold and carry on the struggle regardless of persistent anti-Naga and antiNSCN campaign launched by Naga collaborators and Indian agencies after entering into ceasefire with India. The 14 years of ceasefire with government of India has proved to be anti-thesis in resolving the outstanding

and long overdue Naga political issue. India has failed to express any indication or inclination to discuss and resolve the conflict. Having tasted the customary diabolic military and political gambit of India in the garb of ceasefire the NSCN has fully perceived the irretrievable political abyss pre-planned by India to enmesh the NSCN and the Nagas through delaying tactics and induce false hope for which NSCN unilaterally abrogated ceasefire prematured so as to salvage the sovereign struggle. In trying time as this, the true face of conspirators is but compelled to surface with highly treacherous agendas beneath the cosmetically engineered dubious allurement to further divide, disrupt and disable the NSCN pledge. The ACAUT true mission is now beyond debate, branding NSCN/GPRN as traitors for attacking the occupational army and openly advocating unbridled retaliatory terror of Indian army against Naga civilians in the event such attack not only condons the excesses of atrocities by Indian

army upon the Nagas but also validate Indian Army 60 years plus of martial law imposed on the Nagas. ACAUT, by acronym itself is found true and fit to its maxim and thus redefined “AntiNaga Conspirators Attempting Unparalleled Treachery (ACAUT)”. The ACAUT leaders should start donning Indian Army uniforms besides carrying convertible Glock submachine guns that has already being issued to them by government of India and must begin open armed offensive against Naga national workers instead of taking shelter under hoax anti-corruption and anti-taxation banner. One also wonders how and why the so called anticorruption group condemn and censor Naga army assault on Indian army or would dare to reprove NSCN termination of ceasefire agreement with India when the issue has nothing to do with them. The ever unwarranted decision of Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) to boycott cooperation and support to NSCN struggle for Naga sov-

Law Enforcement Agency needs improvement

error activities within the state seem to be on the raise. Frequent bomb blast in several public places is becoming a common phenomenon. Yet there is no breakthrough of a single case. One thing we have to ask ourselves is, are we safe within our own state? Probably yes for our VVIPs, thanks to the personal security guards with their latest weaponry and dedicated services. But unfortunately for the public, the only assurance is – be vigil for the bomb could explode anytime anywhere. The department of Home affairs is responsible for law and order subject within the state. It is one the biggest department in Nagaland in terms of the number of employees and resource utilization. But if the efficiency of the department is to be measured by looking at the law and order situation in the state, the outcome would not be different with those Government High School achievements as shown in the recently declared HSLC result. Terrorism is a serious threat to any society and it has to be dealt with full force of the state’s power. No amount of condemnation would be sufficient enough to eradicate this evil and thus the MIP, NSCN/GPRN state requires to give more effort

ereignty for its attack on Indian army is indeed a making of history of its own and also first of its kind during the entire course of Naga journey for Naga identity. The NSCN as an entity always endorses the pioneering and unparalleled sacrifices and patriotism of Angami Nagas in nurturing, promoting and guiding the Naga freedom movement since the British intrusion in Naga kingdom till the present time. It is our earnest belief that the momentary lapse of judgement by individual AYO leader(s) or the deliberate and long conceived policy of an individual AYO leader(s) shall not be given an upper hand to betray the most honourable martyrdoms of the Angami tribe. The Angamis are always regarded as staunch patriots and must continue to be the torch bearers of Naga nationalism as ever. The NSCN on its part shall fight to the last remaining man and shall never be cowed down by the threat of collaborators and traitors.

in dealing with terrorism. The year 2015 is experiencing more terror activities in forms bomb explosion at several places which was hitherto unknown in Naga culture. If these activities are not checked during its nascent stage, the state would become a fertile ground for terror activities owing to numerous insurgent groups operating in the region. It is highly discouraging that funds that were supposed to be utilized for modernization of state police forces were not properly utilized. Our Home minister admitted that the state police do not have the necessary equipment to control the riot situation as has happened in Dimapur during lynching incident recently. One wonders as to how miserable it would be under such circumstances acting as a police man. Not only the equipments but also man power has to be improved, better trained to match with other state police such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The success rate of crime investigations is also very low in our state which is why many people lost confidences and are even reluctant to file report at the law enforcement agency. The recent cases of bomb blast with no suspect to emerge till

now indicate the powerlessness of our police forces. Would the perpetrators who have been planting such bombs not be laughing at the investigators who were like mere pawns at their hands? The law enforcement agency needs to improve a lot in almost all related fields such as intelligence network, training, equipment, forensic, man resource, etc. Law and order being state subject, legislators need to give concerted efforts in channelizing necessary resource to develop this agency into a reliable authority. Besides, in order to capture the brightest minds of youth in the society, recruitment system has to be changed. Free and fair competition particularly for the recruitment of junior rank inspector in state police must be introduced at any cost without which efficiency cannot be expected. It is likely that the person who has been appointed through corrupt means shall continue to involve in corruption even after joining the service. It will surely be a challenging task to completely revive this sector and thus a bold visionary leader has to take the initiative. Khrukroku Vero Kohima

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Crisis Management

ddressing a meeting of Deputy Commissioners (DCs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) on law and order recently, Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang reminded them of their huge responsibilities towards the State and its people and requested them to uphold the image of the State. The CM was speaking against the backdrop of recent incidents in Tuensang and Dimapur where the administration and police had failed miserably in maintaining law and order. Of course image building is the responsibility of not just a few DCs or SPs manning the districts but rather the public at large including the political class must also do their part in upholding the rule of law. While it is true that new challenges have come about, as rightly noted by the CM pointing to social media and its adverse effect, the government cannot simply blame the ‘circumstances’ that may have led to violence or other law and order failures. Also simply blaming the DCs or SPs is not going to be enough. Let’s accept the fact that our entire system is faulty and we will have to address this problem in its entirety, including the use of discretionary powers by our political executive, which often leads to compromise on accountability and good governance. If our DCs and SPs are expected to be “efficient and to uphold the constitution”, as suggested by the CM, the same responsibility lies with our political class also. Who really appoints the DCs and SPs in the respective districts? Transfer or posting is done at the behest of the ruling politicians and therefore they are equally to blame, for the inefficiency of the district officials. For one, we need to take a relook at the landmark judgement of the Supreme Court a few years ago where it had directed the Centre and State governments to set up independent Civil Service Boards in a move to unshackle the bureaucracy from political control. In Nagaland we do have the Civil Service Board, which deals with transfer and posting of officials. But how far is it independent of political control? In a State where chits from Ministers, party officials or powerful VIPs can make things work, perhaps the idea of an independent civil service board is a contradiction. In fact the SC ruling requires both the Centre and States to come up with supporting legislations. It also requires records of oral orders received by bureaucrats to be maintained. How far we can implement this order in Nagaland is a million dollar question given the unrestrained political interference we are used to. The improve quality of governance as desired by one and all, we need to limit political interference, especially in transfers and postings so that public interest is served. Perhaps a suggestion here is the posting of senior officials to Dimapur should be done with great care because it is a tough assignment no doubt with a lot of sensitive spots to deal with, including the multi-tribalcosmopolitan nature of this busy commercial tri-junction. What happened in the aftermath of the August 31, 2012 incident at Kohima and the subsequent tribal violence that spread to Dimapur and its surroundings on September 1, 2012 should not be forgotten. The horrific incident of March 5, 2015 where an alleged rapist was lynched by a mob involving mostly Naga youths is another example of how lawlessness can manifest itself in the absence of a strong administration. The question is, are we going to learn our lesson from the incidents of September 1, 2012 and March 5, 2015? Here another suggestion that has already been made through this column before: the need for a Crisis Response Centre (CRC) which can be attached to the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the respective districts so that there is timely, coordinated and effective response to any crisis like the kind of tribal flare up that took place in Tuensang recently or Dimapur on September 1, 2012 or the March 5, 2015 mob violence. Nagaland has its own uniqueness and will require a creative and professional approach to governance and crisis management on the ground. (Feedback can be sent to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)

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Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D

Power and Leadership What does God say? Read Matthew 4:18-22 Some people claim to be leaders but lack power to command following. Others have power but don’t know how to turn it on to show others the way. Understanding this connection is like knowing how to release electric power to go through the wires. When Jesus was on earth, He said, “Follow me.” And people did. The question is, how did He get people to follow Him? First of all, people followed Him because they believed that God was with Him. Second, they knew that He was a man of character and could be trusted, so they were drawn to Him. Third, they believed that He knew the way and the answers to their needs, so they followed Him to learn more for life. In other words, Jesus used the power of His closeness with the Father, the power of His character and the power of His knowledge to draw others and command following. The American Experiment Before becoming the 34th U.S. President (1953-61), Dwight Eisenhower was a military hero. He led the invasion on Norway in 1943. During his presidency, he helped build 41,000mile interstate highway system in America. Here are some nuggets on leadership from Eisenhower: What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it’s the size of the fight in the dog. You do not lead by hitting people on the head--that’s assault, not leadership. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably Integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in the army, or in an office. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Okay, so now what? Our Nagas seek power that comes from position and titles. In our church circle, this could mean wanting to be called a Reverend. In political circles, this might be getting a portfolio of a Cabinet level which comes with all trappings of power. Others who cannot get power through these channels may resort to using gun or money as a means to assert control and acquire power over our people. It is time we Nagas become leaders of substance. Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro

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Civil resistance and the geopolitics of impunity I mpunity, as the absence of justice, is the second of two assaults on both the law and the dignity of victims, being second only to the original crime itself. Impunity is one of the greatest affronts to society and to the rule of law and, far from being transient, it endures until subsequent governments or judges either repeal or nullify the legislation that created it or developed it as a means of evading legal redress. As lived reality or in the law, impunity is usually present in some form in our lives, whether through laws designed to protect big criminals, a judicial inability to confront both major and minor criminal activity, an absence of political will to tackle weaknesses in the judicial system, unrestrained granting of pardons in circumstances of transitional justice, or irrational acquittals or illegal amnesties. All with scant regard for accepted international standards and the doctrines of human rights courts and tribunals that prohibit such actions. Between domestic and international law I regard illegal amnesties as examples of impunity when they effectively contradict international law rather than domestic legislation. By this I mean that the enactment of legislation–especially designed by governments or legislative assemblies–that specifically aim to avoid investigation and punishment of the most serious international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, and enforced “disappearances”, among others). No amnesty law should obstruct access to justice or the consequences of such actions. In its December 2012 condemnation of El Salvador for the massacre at El Mozote, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is clear and definitive: ”Persons guilty or suspected of war crimes may not be granted amnesty. Article 6.5 of the Additional Protocol II to the 1949 Geneva Convention refers to broad amnesties for those who have participated in non-international armed conflicts or who have been imprisoned for reasons relating to an armed conflict, provided they have not participated in acts that would qualify as war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The reference here is to crimes that, by reason of their exceptional cruelty, cease to be simply an assault on the citizens of a state, becoming an offence against humanity. In the latter case, domestic law cannot impose barriers to humanitarian law and human rights that have evolved over time and through ius cogens (preemptory norm) to become part of the custom and practice of international law. The non-applicability and inadmissibility of amnesties for these kinds of international offences constitute two of the great milestones of the last century in the development and conceptualisation of the idea of ius cogens. We owe credit for these developments to the hard work of treaty negotiators, the good work of some states that have succeeded in consolidating international norms, and the consensus necessary to gain acceptance for certain precepts that strengthen the modes of prevention and abolishment of major international crimes. The importance of consolidating these advances has been evident throughout history, especially from the 20th century up to present day. A society that is increasingly demanding of its leaders and conscious of its rights cannot continue to accept high doses of impunity during, and in the wake of, significant conflicts. Various expedients have been–and to some extent still are–in use. We can thus observe several recurring examples of amnesty. On the one hand, there is the so-called ‘auto-amnesty’, in which an exhausted authoritarian regime, powerless to resist pressures for reform and democratisation, safeguards the future of its leaders by granting a general amnesty via the imposition of impunity laws. On the other hand, there is mutual amnesty between conflicting groups, and amnesties granted by democratic or pseudo-democratic governments as a means of dealing with periods of transition. Illegal amnesties The first of these cases is probably the most unsavoury, and we have more than enough examples worldwide, especially in Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Perú, El Salvador, etc.). Here, the perpetrators employ relevant institutional powers to forge a renewed ‘democratic’ structure, in which they

overnments have long pledged to bring more women to the peace table, but for many (if not most), it has been little more than lip service. In a bid to accelerate this process, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Chile and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations organised an international workshop on Apr. 23 to better integrate the Women, Peace, Security (WPS) U.N. Security Council Resolutions within the security sector. The seminar focused on recommendations for the implementation of Resolutions 1325 and 1820 at the international, regional and national level, in order to bring more women to the peace tables in conflict areas, and bring their perspectives into post-conflict reconstruction processes. According to the 2014 SecretaryGeneral’s report on WPS, a reform of the security sector is needed in order to accomplish these goals. Speaking from U.N. Headquarters in New York, the International Coordinator of GNWP, Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, stressed “the need for a systematic implementation of Resolution 1325 at the international level.” In the past three years, GNWP has conducted over 50 localisation workshops in 10 countries, in various communities and municipalities, inviting

The Spanish jurist who went after Pinochet reflects on the battle to unseat impunity in Chile and Argentina, and looks ahead to Spain's continued efforts to shake off its collective amnesia

receive a guarantee of legal impunity for previous criminal activities justified by a misguided concept of national security and stability. Such is the case of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Despite the gradual democratisation signalled by the 1988 national referendum to remove him from power, he clung to his position as head of state for a further two years, and his subsequent appointment as a senator for life took place and was previously sanctioned under the terms of decree no. 2191 in 1978. This law provided amnesty for the crimes committed between 11 September 1973–the date of the overthrow of Salvador Allende–and 10 March 1978–a period generally regarded as the cruelest of the dictatorship, even though tortures and executions continued until the very end of Pinochet’s rule. The same model was chosen in March 1983 in Argentina with the declaration of law 22,924, intended to ensure the impunity of the leaders of the military dictatorship in Argentina, which was characterised by multiple tortures, extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances. Shortly after, the law was annulled and the military juntas brought to book. But after democracy had been restored, the amnesty laws Punto Final (Endpoint) and Due Obedience were enacted in 1986 and 1978 respectively, and were revoked only in 2005. Thereafter, all crimes against humanity, genocide or war crimes have been subject to investigation and trial. Peace treaties and transitional justice The second category of cases involves groups that are jointly responsible, or at least both significantly responsible, for crimes committed within the context of an internal conflict. In such circumstances, it is easy to make the mistake of advocating for peace while disregarding demands for justice. This overlooks the fact that for peace to be just and sustainable, the victims must to be a central focus in the design of transitional justice. Accordingly, this should be implemented with respect to international law and with due acknowledgement of the need for truth and reparation, of which justice is itself a part. When there is a negotiated end to an internal conflict, as is happening in Colombia–a country that has witnessed hundreds of massacres, millions of enforced displacements, systematic land seizures, and tens of thousands of disappearances– it should be understood that peace does not just mean an agreement between the government and the insurgents, but also respect for the people, whose rights are at stake. The protection of rights, secured through years of struggle is a crucial piece of everyone’s heritage, must remain at the epicentre of any agreement. Auto-amnesties Finally, there are amnesty laws approved by transitional governments of a democratic or pseudodemocratic kind who pursue their political agenda by using amnesty as a tool to ‘smooth over' the path of political transition. This case seems to share some of the features of the previous ones, with the exception that a government presiding over a political transition can or may try to disown its own active and violent involvement in the conflict. Once again, negotiated pardons and the formal setting-aside of offences can only be valid if they meet certain requirements, and accordingly, there can be no amnesty for international crimes. This was the framework within which the aforementioned laws Punto Final and Due Obedience were approved. Enacted by the Argentinian government of Raúl Alfonsín, neutralised

verdicts were decreed against the military juntas and effectively revived the ‘auto-amnesty’ decree of 1983. Another example of this model is the ‘autoamnesty’ laws promulgated by former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to guarantee his own impunity. This was subsequently annulled by the Inte-American Court of Human Rights in relation to the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases. In 2001, the court rejected the validity of these kinds of pardon, as a result of which Fujimori was convicted and harshly sentenced for his intellectual participation in these two notorious Peruvian massacres.

Shaking off Spain’s collective amnesia After almost 40 years of Franco’s iron dictatorship, and in the midst of a succession of ‘terrorist’ actions and several attempted coups d’état, the politicians responsible for Spain’s transition to democracy–among whom were as many Francoists as democrats–gave way to the still-existing Francoist hold on power and approved an amnesty law in October 1977. This law targeted the victims of Francoism rather than the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity committed by the regime that remain unpunished despite several attempts to launch proceedings. Almost 80 years after the 1936 coup, total impunity persists. Consequently, the victims of Francoism are perpetually re-victimised. The more than 150,000 disappeared are still waiting for truth, justice and reparation. Despite the judicial effort that I spearheaded in 2008 to investigate the facts, and the decisions of the United Nations (the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Committee on Human Rights) in addition to pressure from the victims, the impunity is absolute and the helplessness total, and seemingly irreversible. No attempt is even being made to apply the 2007 Law of Historical Memory. Spain’s transition and her amnesty law are a perfect example of this particular category of impunity. The country’s well-known transition from an authoritarian system to a fresh, new democracy suffered the consequences of its own success in that the institutions refuse to acknowledge any criticisms or reproaches. Economic recovery–the so-called “Spanish miracle”–and the country’s renewed openness both in domestic and international politics were achievements that other nations have tried to emulate. Nevertheless, the reality is far from perfect. One of Spain’s mistakes was to allow values to endure that were in force during the previous regime. The failure to break with that system means that we have retained a philosophy of corruption and corrupt practice, an absence of transparency in our political parties and state institutions and, naturally, a great well of impunity from which Spanish society has proved unable to escape. The collective amnesia that characterises most of the population is beginning to be shaken by the condemnations and above all by the persistent legal claims that the victims are generating, together with engaged elements of Spanish society. All is not lost. Action via universal jurisdiction that has been so important in combatting the impunity of dictators and repressive governments in other countries remains available as a means of ensuring that criminals are held to account. The victims have appealed to the federal courts of Argentina, as a result of which a window opened in 2011, and will stay open so long as there is a judge with the law in hand, ready and willing to act decisively. Once again, as happened at the end of the 1990s with a Spanish judge, the victims have begun a pilgrimage towards justice, this time in Argentina. Universal jurisdiction has opened a new door to the possibility that justice will rule in their favour. From time to time as jurist and judge, I find myself unable to don the cloak of insensitivity worn by those who use the law to repress those who are most in need of it. Under the pretext of safeguarding the integrity of the law, they create the unimaginable insecurity that is both a feature and the bedrock of impunity. Failure to do everything possible to provide reparation to the victims is to guarantee that these crimes are repeated.

Peace Is Not a Boy’s Club valentina Ieri Inter Press Service police officers and the military forces to learn about Resolution 1325. “It is no surprise to us when they come to our localisation workshops that these officers hear about Resolution 1325 for the very first time. However, working only at the local level is hard, because final approvals come from the higher ups, in order to actually get a full reform and training of officers of the security sector,” highlighted Cabrera-Balleza. The GNWP is not only calling for a global reform of the security sectors and armed forces for the inclusion of women in peace-building, but also for demilitarisation of countries and the elimination of conflicts to achieve peace worldwide. Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former under-secretary general and member of the High-Level Advisory Group for Global Study on Resolution 1325, who was present at the seminar,

underlined the inadequacy of governments and peacekeepers in protecting civilians, and especially women, in recent years. “(We need) the integration of the culture of peace and non-violence in national and global policies, and education for global citizenship. We need a human security policy, and a more inclusive human way of thinking about our future, where women and men can share equally the construction of a safer and just world,” he said. One positive example of the inclusion of women during peace negotiations comes from the Philippines. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, chair of the Philippine Government Peace Panel with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), explained that after 17 years of peace negotiations between the Philippine authorities and the MILF, in the last two decades, the

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government and armed forces have moved toward the “civilianisation” of peace processes. “More and more women were allowed in, either as members of the bureaucracy or government, or civil society leaders, or academia members, and they have all been sitting at the peace table.” As Coronel-Ferrel said, women brought a more gender-based response into the signing of the final peace agreement between the government and the MILF. “Not only because there were more women inside the negotiating tracks, but also women around the panels, who would be lobbying the government but also the counter party, making sure that diverse frameworks would be included in the text.” In addition, the reform of the security sector in the Philippines created local monitoring teams, where either police officers or lower ranking members of the armed forces worked closely with MILF members, leading to trust building and cooperation for better security on the ground, concluded Coronel-Farrel. Participating in the event were also officers from police and military forces from Argentina, Australia, Burundi, Canada, Colombia, Ghana, Nepal, countries which are implementing reforms within their security sectors at the local, regional and national level.

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Martha-Cecilia dietrich ifteen years have passed since the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000) was declared over, and 12 years have passed since the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) presented a report on the atrocities committed during those twenty years of violence. Researchers recorded around 17,000 interviews and testimonies of victim-survivors, witnesses, politicians, members of insurgent movements in prison and military personnel from 2001to 2003. Today most of these documents are publically accessible and stored in the TRC’s archive in downtown Lima. Transitional justice mechanisms have progressed since the TRC, and so have civil and human rights movements in claiming accountability and justice. Those made responsible on the side of the state forces are facing trials in national and international courts, in some instances for crimes against humanity. In these court cases the testimonies once given to the TRC by witnesses to and survivors of violence have become key reference points, not only for the prosecutors, but also for the defenders of the accused. In an era of increasing judicial responses to the call of justice, testimonies given to the TRC have received another raison d’être, namely as a means to examine witnesses’ credibility. This article examines the shifting role of these testimonies and the consequences for those who once committed to sharing their experiences with the nation.

The aftermaths of the Peruvian internal conflict In the early 1980s two insurgent groups declared war against the Peruvian state: first, the Partido Comunista del Perú–Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL), also known as Shining Path; and then in 1980 and 1984, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Three successive governments responded to the insurgent attacks by sending the armed forces to wage a brutal counterinsurgency war that mainly affected the rural and indigenous population of the Andean highlands. According to the investigations of the TRC 69,280 people were killed, around 430,000 people were forced to leave their homes, and an estimated 15,000 people are still recorded as missing. “We will not rest until justice is done”, is one of the main paroles with which witnesses, survivors and supporters of human rights groups continue protesting on the streets of Lima. Scholars like Lisa Laplante and Kimberley Theidon have discussed the legacies of the TRC for those who entrusted their stories to the project of truth, stating that “truth tellers make an implicit contract with their interlocutors to respond through acknowledgment and redress”. Addressing the existing gap between talking truth and doing justice, Theidon and Laplante stress that the act of giving testimony may have temporary cathartic effects, but a lack of consequent action can lead to disappointment and further distrust towards the state and its institutions. Particularly in the areas most affected by the conflict, state presence was shaped by an often-aggressive military presence and insufficient social, educational or health services. A more integral consideration for how the state was and is perceived by its citizens is certainly worthy of attention, because these sentiments considerably affect how a state and any form of state-funded intervention is evaluated by the people it concerns. Commissioned by Interim President Valentín Paniagua, the TRC was conceived of as an independent body with the task of investigating the past and restoring a sense of identity as Peruvians, with a shared responsibility towards the atrocities of the past expressed through the power of truth. Yet the independence of the TRC did not remain unchallenged, from both supporters and adversaries. Despite the political debates surrounding the foundation and work of the TRC, those most affected by the violence expected justice in the broadest sense. As the now elderly women of ANFASEP–the oldest victims organisation in the country– told me, many went to speak at the TRC’s public hearings and to give their testimonies for the cause of justice. After truth As part of my fieldwork in Peru in 2011 and 2012,

y grandfather, Kwara Odera K’Ogwande, and I were seated outside Dana’s house enjoying little talk while listening to the transistor radio under the huge mango tree. It was one of those sunny afternoons in Gem, western Kenya, when one would feel entitled to simply “chill-lax” after a busy morning weeding the crops or tending the goats. Back in the day, whenever and wherever I travelled, I carried my small Toshiba transistor radio. Tuning in, on shortwave one or two, to the Kiswahili service of Radio Dutche Welle at noon and the BBC Kiswahili service at 6:30pm became something of a daily ritual. But my grandmother, Dana Josephina Ongecha Nyo’Tenda, was about to unsettle a nice afternoon. I saw Dana ascending the valley towards our home. I also noticed something else: she was walking rather fast, unlike her usual graceful pace. Each step she took reminded me of ‘hopstep-and jump.’ I could tell something was elephant. As Dana approached where Kwara and I were relaxing under the mango tree, she said something to Kwara in metaphorical terms. I had become accustomed to their way of communicating whenever they wanted to exclude me from their conversation. What I was sure about is that whenever my grandparents to switched to Dholuometaphorology, it meant something really important was about to happen. Without ceremony, Kwara quickly stood up and walked briskly into Dana’s house and straight into the bedroom. Moments later, he reemerged. I noticed he had changed his clothes; he now adorned a light blue shirt, a grey coat and a matching grey trouser. There was something quite ‘headmasterish’ about his looks. Dana also reemerged, looking beautiful and triumphant in her bright orange and dark brown checkered kitenge dress with a matching head gear. When I inquired from both of

I was able to follow the proceedings against a military general, Teniente (Lieutenant) Ruben, implicated in the disappearance of several villagers in the early ‘80s. According to the prosecutors, Teniente Ruben was responsible for the disappearance of five villagers from the community of Matero in the Cangallo province, department of Ayacucho, on 30 July 1983. In 2004 the Peruvian human rights organisation APRODEH took on the investigations. It lost the case in 2006 and a second attempt to reopen the case was denied. Finally in 2011 the case was reopened. It was also the first time a court case of this sort was held in the province in which the events occurred. Previous court cases were held exclusively in Lima, making it nearly impossible for witnesses to attend, but a recent law favouring decentralisation now obliges these cases to be held in their respective provinces. The three witnesses, a former mayor of Matero and two elderly women, who are relatives of the disappeared persons, had already arrived. Their daughters accompanied them. I had come with members of ANFASEP, which had asked me to come in solidarity and film the hearings for its archive. We sat down at the benches outside and the women started talking about their experiences in the courtrooms, and their hopes and expectations for their cases in the future. Señora Maxi, for instance, had her court hearing at the Inter-American Human Rights Court after she had exhausted her possibilities in the national courts. It was the first time she confronted the person presumed responsible for her husband’s death. As Señora Maxi stood in front of the accused general, she said that she knew that he was guilty of her husband’s disappearance, to which he replied that she was no one to accuse him of such allegations. She had imagined this situation for so many years, and had recited and thought it through over and over again, but as she stood there she could not speak, only cry. A few days later she suffered a partial paralysis of her face through which she almost lost the sight of her right eye. Today she came to support the relatives of those who disappeared in Matero. Court cases put immense pressure on the main witnesses, who in most cases hardly speak Spanish and even less the technical language of law. Often it is the first time they ever confront the person presumed responsible for their grief, which my contacts at ANFASEP described as “intimidating”. As we spoke, the daughters of the witnesses prepared agua de azar (fortune water), a liquid made of the essence of flowers and herbs that is diluted in water to calm the nerves. One of the relatives' daughters sat in front, holding her mother’s hand, stroking her face and her shoulders, repeating again and again that she should just tell the judges everything she knew. After the bell announced the beginning of the court session, the first witness was asked to come forward. Since she did not speak any Spanish, a translator came to sit by her side. A woman appeared who was asked to swear on the Bible to accurately translate between Quechua and Spanish. As the first questions were asked, the audience started complaining that the translator was from Cusco, which has a different dialect. As the witness replied in long sentences and the translator would say just a few words, the session was stopped. Only adding to the witness’ apprehension, the translator was briefed once more to translate accurately and without interpretations before the session could continue. On the 30 July 1983 five people from the village of Matero were ordered by a soldier to report to the prefecture of Cangallo, which at the time was under the command of Teniente Ruben. None of the five villagers ever returned. During the whole session the witness was asked about the uniform of this soldier. In the report she filed right after the events she did not remember the uniform he was wearing, but in her testimony to the TRC, which she gave 19 years later, she said it was the uniform of an army soldier. Today, 30 years later, she was not sure whether he was a police officer (policía) or soldier of the army (militar). Her declarations became increasingly confusing when the lieutenant’s lawyers brought up the contradictions between the three different declarations. What I could not make sense of was that the dec-

larations from 1983 and from the TRC (2002) were read out in Spanish. So at some point in time, someone must have translated the witness’ declarations from Quechua to Spanish–perhaps a police officer, an interviewer or the defendants themselves? What remained without consideration was not only the question of who produced these declarations, but also the fact that they addressed different official bodies at different times and under different circumstances. In 1983 the police and the army had violently entered the region, killing indiscriminately villagers (taken for terrorists) in the name of the state. The role of the state itself was therefore more ambiguous or contradicting, on the one hand as institutional authority, but also as aggressor against its own citizens. The TRC occurred after Peru’s conflict, as well as the era of President Alberto Fujimori, who protected the members of the state forces from prosecution, had only just ended. The wounds were fresh, but nevertheless, those who spoke hoped for acknowledgement and justice. But decades later, memories of details may have faded. However, the argument of the lieutenant’s defence clearly aimed to discredit the witness. The prosecution intervened stating that the witness could not be considered in her full capacities, because the concepts she uses are different to ‘ours’ (referring to non-indigenous people). Stressing cultural difference as the source of the witness’ difficulty in making clear statements, the morning session closed. When truth goes to court One could identify at least three levels on which to question the ways in which the legal authorities (on all sides) handled the case: firstly, in regards to the ways Quechua as native Peruvian language that has official status in some regions of the country like Ayacucho, is integrated into the legal system. A considerable number of the people affected by the conflict are Quechua speaking. In this sense, it is not too surprising that many witnesses perceive the legal system as elitist and intimidating, whereby the witnesses’ inability to speak Spanish is understood as flaw or a result of lacking education. Secondly, it is necessary to contextualise to whom, and under which circumstances declarations were made. Many testimonies were given with caution and suspicion. Maribel, one of my informants explained, “The declarations given at different times often don’t coincide, because they used to give changed names, dates and details of events to protect their families or themselves.” Distortions and alterations to the stories thus occurred because of fear of and pressure from people who were and still are in positions of power. Thirdly, I find the prosecutor’s strategy to pursue justice for victims of indigenous descent by portraying them as culturally ‘other’ problematic–even more so if the cause is to challenge persisting social injustices against indigenous peoples. It seems paradoxical that the prosecution used the circumstance of cultural difference as a reason to render the witness incapable of fully understanding what was going on back then and today. Leaving these three aspects without reflection offered a chance for the defence to weaken the witness’ declarations by questioning their reliability in telling the ‘truth’. The necessary challenge here (particularly on the side of the prosecutors) is to situate the witness’ differing narratives within the particular contexts in which they were produced, because the roots for incongruences may be just as comprehensible. Ann Stoler writes that a distinction has to be made between researching the past and researching representations of the past: "Scholars need to move from archive-as-source to archive-as-subject." I would extend this call to the courtrooms in which the past, the present and future of those who died, or survived the conflict are currently at stake. The differentiation lies in the awareness that declarations such as testimonies, interviews, documents, and images are themselves subject to the terms, conditions, and agendas of their creation as well as their use. In this sense the TRC and other archives are not simple re-presentations of the past, but a valuable mediator of its legacy. What the Matero case does not fail to show is how elusive justice can be.

Grandmother of all Grandmothers

them why the sudden transformation in image, they simply smiled away my inquiry, the way people in love usually do. Within minutes, I noticed the elderly woman – an elderess I had never seen before – walking through gate of our home, a walking stick in hand, and carefully balancing a little luggage on her head. Each step and each wrinkle on her face was a narrative of the joys and pains that this life can be. Things suddenly changed when she entered through the gate, even the weather. Every step she took towards Dana’s hut was transformational. Everyone emerged from their huts and greeted her with ‘luor’ [deep respect]. Her firm handshake would take a little longer. If you were old enough, she would slowly scan your face. If you were a child, she would touch your face and spit on your forehead then mumble some blessings. It must have been almost an hour before the matriarch finally entered Dana’s hut. She paused at the entrance. Dana relieved her off the luggage still balancing on her head. All this while, everyone – those who had accompanied her as she entered the home and those waiting in the house – remained upstanding. She then offered a libation and prayer. Dana led her to her seat. I looked at this woman in awe. You see, you could smell the correlation – nay, the causal link – between the presence of this elderess

and the instant change in the mood and good manners of everyone in the home. Whenever she coughed, everyone paid attention. When she requested for water, my grandmother was already on her way to the kitchen even before the Matriarch had completed her sentence. On his part, my grandfather sat upright in his seat, hardly making any movement. He resembled those colonial statues you see in the cities. After some small conversation to ease tension, this elderess panned around the faces of everyone seated in the circular hut, acknowledging everyone by name. When her gaze settledon me, she paused. She said something to Dana in Olu’Luhya which I assumed was something like: “and who is this one now?” She gestured to me to get closer to her, which I reluctantly did. She touched my face. Up close, it seemed to me like her like her eyesight was failing. She then spoke to me in Olu’Luhya. I knew a few words in Olu’Luhya but not enough to compose a sentence. I shook my head in a mixture of confusion and embarrassment. Dana came to my rescue. She explained to our elderess in Dho’Luo my place in the family. Dana explained that I was her great grandson who spends most of his time in school in the city of Nairobi. That is why, Dana explained, I was unable to converse properly in

poll results

Does social impunity perpetuate domestic violence in Nagaland? 46%

42%

12% YES

OTHER

Some of those who voted YES had this to say • Yes, the social impunity is perpetuating domestic violence. Today, people can get away with wrong actions because there is no one and no institution that stands for truth and justice. IN the past Naga tradition, the naga society was honourable and people adhered to certain values and principles and there was respect and justice in the society. But today there is no more social justice. Everything is about power. Power rules Naga society and when power rules, this leads to social impunity. • I have to agree on this. What is expected and is supposed to be followed and once upon a time it may have been true that being shamed and ostracized by the community was a bigger punishment than anything one can ever bear. But in today's world, violence is quietly tolerated in some families and hushed and asked to be resolved between the husband and wife or in extreme cases by the family and a verbal reconciliation of forgive and move on, is sought again and again even from those who deserve to be locked up and the keys thrown away permanently. Until the law punishes strictly and society removes this social impunity which is given as a blanket cover to many perpetrators, domestic violence will quietly and sometimes noisily continue. Until society comes together and say loudly, "what you did was wrong" and prevent their families to be associated with those who have no remorse over raising a hand, sadly the abusers will continue thinking that since people overlooked his 'misdemeanors' he can continue on. This is one reason why, women must become contributing bread winners, for when you have economic dependence on an abuser, it will be so much more difficult to get out of a relationship where you are tossed around and disrespected. I believe that when that total dependency element is removed, a certain degree of restraint even on the abusers part may be expected. Violence of the physical kind is seen and can be tackled by concerned relatives and friends, it is the unseen mental violence that many women do not show and silently bear the humiliation, that is the dangerous one. Their children see it and the vicious cycle of abuse and acceptance of it may just continue on unless they themselves are counselled and take it head on to prevent it beginning from the home. • Yes, social and political impunity is the cause of many evils in Nagaland. Some of those who voted NO had this to say • Not really. Naga society is deeply rooted in traditions, and raising one's hand on one's spouse is considered an offence not only to the wife but her family too. Today supposing a daughter of a family were to be beaten up by her husband then, if she shared that with her family, the family members would intervene and try to sort the matter with her husband and his family. Domestic violence doesn't start with full blows, it starts with frustration at little things. One day it is a single slap, over the months it can escalate to deadly blows and this is because the victims do not report the matter to family members, at times out of shame, at times because of her assumption of the matter to be a strictly personal one. Surely no family will allow that to happen to their daughters. But in another case, people also do not like to intervene in domestic affairs but as far as violence goes, if the matter come to the family, no one would tolerate it. • No. Domestic violence is never a thing of our Naga ancestors. It is a problem of the contemporary Nagas. Therefore, social impunity may not be implored here. Contemporary laws legislated to tackle the present must be enhanced effectively instead.

Olu’Luhya. What followed was a tirade. Speaking in a mixture of Dho’Luo and Olu’Luhya our elderess demanded an explanation as to why a great grandchild of hers – “omwichukhuluwanje” as she repeatedly said – could not speak basic Olu’Luhya. “How are you raising your children and grandchildren?” the matriarch roared. No one answered. Even the ever reassuring Kwara was staring at the grass-thatched roof, pretending he was reflecting deeply about the future of Afrika. With her walking stick the matriarch tapped on the floor three times Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say and when she was sure she had caught • There are many factors besides social impunity as a case for everyone’s attention she announced perpetuating domestic violence. Except for rare customary the decree: “All my grandchildren and practices in case of domestic violence coming to light, there my great grandchildren – all of them is no law in place to deal with domestic violence. This issue – must be able to speak both Dho’Luo needs to go beyond the boundaries of the domestic and inand Olu’Luhya.” Dana and Kwara nodstitutionalise domestic violence within the purview of law ded. and adopt stringent measures to check violence. EmpowerTo ensure her words had percoing through legal means might work in curbing domestic lated into the souls of everyone presviolence. ent, she looked around the room and demanded: “Do you all u-n-d-e-r-s-t- • I believe that alongside men and there are women who are to be blamed for being domestic violence perpetrators. But a-n-d what I have just said? Everyone in general, the majority of the perpetrators are men while echoed back in the affirmative. It was then that it dawned on women are only a tiny fraction, or maybe we know less of me that I was looking at the Mothwomen's role just because it would seem a huge dent on the er of my Grandmother – my Great ego or prestige of the man at home if such news leaked out. GrandMother. Yes, here I was with Why do people even assume that domestic violence has to the Grandmother of all Grandmothbe just between a husband and a wife? There are parents who ers! (Though, as a juvenile it seemed are guilty of being violent on their kids. The point is there is rather odd that my own Grandmotha need to differentiate the difference between disciplining er would have a Mother who would in a humane way, not torturing family in degrees whether still order her around). mental, colloquial or physical. And I do firmly believe that The culture and momentum of social impunity does give rise to domestic violence. Victims good manners continued until the folmust be heard and rescued, temporary rescue homes or lowing day when our Matriarch left to shelters for those being persecuted must be started. A comhead back to her village in Ebusubi. mon easy hotline number should be introduced all over the The farewell rituals were equally elabocountry for people to report such cases. Maybe lawyers can rate. share the rules on this, but there must be some law that alAfter the visit of this Matriarch of lows concerned citizens to report domestic violence, even ours, I recall Dana making extra effort if they are not related or have seen it by chance? Problem is to teach me some basic Olu’Luhya. society has observed such incidents but to avoid being conEven Kwara, while he was in the prosidered nosy or by saying not my business, this has led on cess of defragmenting his mind with to more crimes being committed and the few people who his favorite drink, would occasionally sprinkle a word or two in Olu’Luhya. complain are seen as an interfering nosy parker.

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India's military procurement process blamed for Rafale bungle Rafale fighter deal to get formal nod, Indian partner awaited

new DelhI, May 3 (IanS): French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives here on Monday to sign the formal deal for supplying 36 Rafale aircraft, the medium multi-role combat fighters of Dassault, to the Indian Air Force as agreed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Paris last month, officials said. Also keenly watched will be: Which Indian firm Dassult picks as a partner for a manufacturing base in India. Officials explained the main reason why the Indian prime minister had agreed so fast to take the deal forward is it fit well into his "Make in India" campaign. The basic agreement is expected to be signed between France and India soon This June 21, 2001 file photo shows a French Air Force Rafale manufactured by France's Dassault Aviation speeding above Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, France, during the 44th after similar pacts Paris entered into with Egypt and Qatar for 24 Rafael fighters each. Paris Air Show. (AP File Photo) new DelhI, May 3 (IanS): A cumbersome process for military procurements has been blamed by a parliamentary panel for India missing out on "the mother of all deals" for purchasing 126 combat jets, instead of which only 36 will be bought from the same French manufacturer. "It is observed that the deal for 126 aircraft with the Francebased Rafale company could not be finalized. The committee feels this is attributable to the long gestation period of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)," Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence said in its report tabled earlier this week. The committee, headed by Maj. Gen. B.C. Khanduri (retd) of the BJP, hoped that the changes in the DPP that are due this year will

remove such shortcomings. The deal for purchasing 36 Rafale combat jets in fly-away condition was inked during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to France last month. The Rafale had in 2012 received the Indian Air Force (IAF) nod for 126 jets in a $12 billion deal in the face of stiff competition from five other manufacturers. Sixteen were to be bought off the shelf and the remaining manufactured in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) under a transfer of technology agreement. However, differences over the price and the "ownership" of the HAL-manufactured planes had prevented the closure of the deal. The IAF had expressed an urgent need for the 126 medium multi-role combat jets to primari-

ly replace its agening fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 planes and to plug the gap caused by the delay in the development of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA). The IAF currently has 33 combat squadrons against a sanctioned strength of 39.5, which is sought to be raised to 42. (The committee, in a separate report, had said that by 2022, the IAF will have just 25 squadrons, losing "even the slight edge over a rival neighbouring nation" - read Pakistan.) "The committee hopes that the new Defence Procurement Procedure shall plug the loopholes in the existing policy and make it more productive without time and cost overrun," the panel said. According to defence ministry officials, changes are due in

The value of the deals with Egypt and Qatar is around 7.1 billion each, while with India it is in the region of $9 billion (Rs.55,000 crore), officials said. Explaining the finer contours of the deal, officials said that it could be an agreement both between the two governments and their respective defence ministries, as also with Dassault Aviation -- as this will give India a guarantee from the French government, along with the flexibility for the company on other aspects. India's original plan was to buy 126 Rafale aircraft -- valued at around $11 billion in the first tender floated in 2007. The planes were envisaged to be made in India with Hindustan Aeronautics. Given the delays, Modi had announced a truncated deal, to begin with, during his visit to France last month.

the DPP, which was last revised in 2013. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has also stated that "major changes" are expected in the DPP. Ministry officials said the changes will focus on four broad areas, one of them being the way to address complaints, as even anonymous and unsigned complaints often delay the procurement procedure. "We keep on getting a large number of complaints signed, unsigned, pseudonymous, anonymous and so on. Frequently, the practice has been that the minute you get a complaint, you freeze and stop moving on that procurement," a ministry official said, adding this will be addressed in the revised document. The other issues include redefining the procedure for black-

listing a company and making it more nuanced and changes in the offsets' policy. "We are working on the offsets' policy, which we have found is not effective, and in most cases we are being forced to make dispensations or give concessions to the foreign vendor because of flaws in the policy," a ministry official said. Another major change would be to modify the "Make procedure" in the DPP which is "not yielding results", an official said. Under this, 80 percent of the research funding for a project would be provided by the Indian government to a foreign government or private vendor to develop a particular product in return for an assured order over a certain period so that it becomes commercially viable for the developer.

Juvenile justice bill in Lok Sabha this week new DelhI, May 3 (IanS): The Juvenile Justice Amendment bill, which seeks to try as adults the juveniles in the age group of 16 to 18 years accused of heinous crimes, will be introduced in the Lok Sabha this week, official sources said on Sunday. The bill, cleared by the union cabinet on April 22, also proposes to streamline adoption procedures for orphaned, abandoned and surrendered children and establishes a statutory status for the Child Adoption Resources Authority (CARA). It also proposes several rehabilitation and social integration measures for institutional and non-institutional children and provide for sponsorship and foster care as completely new measures. The ministry of women and child development introduced the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014, in the Lok Sabha in August 2014. The bill was referred to the standing committee which recommended keeping the juvenile age at 18 years. However, the government did not agree.

Kashmiri Pandits stage protest at Jantar Mantar new DelhI, May 3 (IanS): Demanding their rehabilitation in the Kashmir Valley, Kashmiri Pandits held a protest at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday. The protest -- "We protest, 25 years of exile, 25 years of denial" -- saw thousands of Kashmiri Pandits coming together to share their plight. Slogans against the separatists rented the air. "We want to go back home in Kashmir. The government's job is to protect us," said a protester, adding that separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani should be arrested. The agitators expressed their wish that the government should take their opinion while chalking out any plan for them. "Everyday we are listening to one proposal or another about Kashmiri Pandits, but thee government does not ask us what we want. I request the government of India whatever it has to decide about us, please ask us," said a protester at Jantar Mantar.

10 coaches of Duronto Express derail in Goa PanajI, May 3 (IanS): Ten rear coaches of the Duronto Express going from Mumbai to Kerala derailed inside a tunnel in Goa on Sunday morning, an official said. No casualties were reported. The accident occurred around 7.15 a.m. near Balli railway station, about 45 km south of here, as the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Ernakulam Duronto was passing through the tunnel. A medical van and relief train have reached the site, said Konkan Railway officer Baban Ghatge. Konkan Railway said trains running on the route would be diverted or cancelled.

Moga molestation: Girl's family agrees to autopsy, cremation SI shot dead by colleague in Mumbai Moga (Punjab), May 3 (IanS): The family of the 13-year-old girl who died after she was molested and pushed out of a private bus owned by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's company on Sunday agreed to her postmortem examination and cremation. The father of the girl and some members of her family said they agreed to the postmortem examination, and that her body will be cremated later on Sunday. Chaos prevailed at the Civil Hospital complex in Moga town on Sunday as local authorities and the police tried to get the consent of the family for conducting the post-mortem examination and cremation. Moga Deputy Commissioner Parminder Singh Gill said the family has agreed to the post-mortem examination and cremation. "The post mortem will be the most crucial piece of evidence related to the death of the victim," he said. Heavy police deployment was made outside and inside the hospital complex Sunday afternoon as scores of people protested the authorities' bid to pressurise the victim's family to give its consent for a postmortem examination followed

by cremation. Though the girl, Arshdeep Kaur, a Dalit, died on Wednesday evening, the family had refused to allow her autopsy and cremation till the owners of the Orbit Aviation transport company, implying Sukhbir Badal and others, were booked. The row continued for the past three days. Protesters, including Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) activists, alleged that the authorities and police under pressure from the Badal family had coerced the victim's father to give consent for the autopsy and cremation. They alleged that the government had offered to pay a compensation of Rs.20 lakh and a government job to a kin of the victim. The victim, her mother and brother had boarded the bus at Moga town for Baghapurana town, which is 20 km away, on Wednesday evening. The mother and daughter were soon targeted with indecent gestures and molestation by some goons on the bus. When the mother and daughter resisted, the molesters, including three bus staff, pushed them out of the speeding bus. The girl died immediately while the mother was admitted the hospital in a

Net neutrality: COAI claims support of 4 million Indians

new DelhI, May 3 (IanS): Four million mobile subscribers have supported COAI's campaign favouring net neutrality for internet-based communication services like WhatsApp and Skype and their being subject to norms similar to those applying to mobile phone operators, the apex body of cellular operators said on Sunday "Sabka Internet, Sab ka Vikas -- the campaign for net neutrality, net equality and consumer choice, has received support from over 40 lakh Indian mobile users in under a week," the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a statement here. Launched last week, "Sabka Internet, Sab ka Vikas", a campaign about making the Internet accessible and affordable for every Indian, seeks a level playing field with net-based services like Skype and WhatApp. The industry body said if the telecom operators are not offered a level playing field with net-based services, then their businesses would be viable only by raising data prices by up to six times. It comes against the backdrop of the debate over net neutrality and allegations that telecom operators are hurting the concept of free internet access by giving preferential treatment to a select few service providers. "COAI started the outreach effort to ensure that mobile customers have the freedom to benefit from the power of the Internet in the way they would wish to, including the choice of platform, device and technology," said COAI director general Rajan S. Mathews. The net neutrality principle came into focus in India following mobile operator Airtel's launch of an open marketing platform 'Airtel Zero', and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's consultation paper on whether telecom firms could be allowed to charge different rates for different uses of Internet data such as e-mail, browsing and for use of apps like Whatsapp, Viber and Skype.

serious condition. Following pressure from various quarters, police arrested four people, including three staff members of Orbit transport company. They were booked for murder, attempt to murder and molestation. Buses of the Orbit transport company were taken off the road in Punjab on Saturday following orders from Sukhbir Badal. Resign or shut down businesses, Amarinder tells Badal Congress leader Amarinder Singh on Sunday demanded that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should either resign from his post or shut down his family's transport and other businesses, including the controversial Orbit Aviation, as it was a clear case of conflict of interest. "All these years, in a clear case of conflict of interest, you have brutally abused your position and power and multiplied your fleet of buses from 40 to 250 by threatening and bullying not only other private transporters, but also the PRTC (Punjab Road Transport Corporation) and Punjab Roadways, into submission, which has eventually led to everybody, except you, suffer-

ing huge losses while you are making huge profits," Amarinder Singh, the deputy party leader in the Lok Sabha, said in a statement issued here. Amarinder Singh said that when he became Punjab chief minister in 2002, he was on the board of directors of some companies like Ranbaxy, DLF, Industrial Cables and Mount Shivalik Breweries, and steeped down. "I resigned from all the companies after seeking legal opinion from the Punjab advocate general, who told me that this amounted to conflict of interest since all these companies were based in and operating from Punjab," he noted. He alleged that the Badals had grabbed about 250 route permits but were actually plying about 500 buses on all the profit-making routes. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and senior lawyer H.S.Phoolka said on Sunday that he has written to President Pranab Mukherjee, seeking action against the Punjab government for complete breakdown of law and order and official machinery. He said that the entire administration in Punjab was working to shield the Badal family and their business interests.

MuMbaI, May 3 (IanS): A police station head who was shot at and critically injured by his junior colleague on Saturday night, died of his bullet injuries here in the early hours of Sunday, officials said. Vilas Joshi (53), the senior inspector of Vakola police station in Santacruz East suburb of Mumbai, was fired upon by Assistant Sub-Inspector Dilip Shirke (55) with his service revolver, following a brawl over absenteeism. The last rites of Joshi, who received three bullet injuries in the back and abdomen, were performed on Sunday afternoon in a south Mumbai crematorium in the presence of a large number of police personnel. Shirke also fired at Joshi's orderly Babasaheb Aher in the thigh, but he is now out of danger. Before other policemen could react, Shirke turned the gun on himself and shot two bullets. He was pronounced dead before he could be admitted to a hospital. Joshi was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra late on Saturday night with bullet injuries in the abdomen, knee and hand. But he died early on Sunday, police spokesperson Dep-

uty Commissioner of Police Dhananjay Kulkarni told IANS. The sensational shooting, which has left the police force shaken, occurred around 8.45 p.m. on Saturday. Described as a short-tempered person by his colleagues, Shirke lived in the Santacruz Police Colony and is survived by his wife and two children. Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria, Additional Commissioner of Police K.M.M. Prasanna and other top officials are directing the Crime Branch investigation into the case. Maria briefed Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who holds the home portfolio, on the incident and related issues including whether the ASI was under stress at work. He said that when Shirke reported for duty on Saturday evening, he saw that he was marked absent for the previous day in the station diary. "The night police inspector had marked him absent as during the rounds at 2.30 a.m. and 6.30 a.m., he was not seen in the place assigned to him," Maria said. After a heated argument with Joshi, Shirke resorted to the extreme step. Fadnavis said the ASI was sanctioned leave in January for several days and in March, he

was absent for two days. He said the police commissioner informed him that special camps to make policemen stress-free were being regularly conducted and, if needed, their frequency would be increased. Earlier, Maria said the provocation was believed to be Joshi's anger at Shirke's absence from work on Friday for night duty and the subsequent three diary entries made against him. When Shirke arrived at the police station and saw the diary entries, he turned furious and accused the night officer incharge as well as some seniors of harassing him. Around 8.45 p.m., Shirke complained to Joshi about the matter. But Joshi justified the diary entries against him. A heated argument ensued between the two, and in a fit of rage, Shirke took out his service revolver and pumped three bullets into Joshi, and another into orderly Aher. This incident, coming close on the heels of two recent incidents of a policeman being arrested in a multi-crore-rupee drug scandal along with his mistress and two inspectors allegedly raping an upcoming model inside a police station, has severely dented the image of the Mumbai force.

World Press Freedom Day: 1,123 journalists killed since 1992, 34 from India Vignesh Radhakrishnan

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ndia has been ranked 136 among 180 countries worldwride in terms of press freedom in 2015. As the United Nations observes World Press Freedom Day on May 3, HT assesses the state of press freedom across the world and pays tribute to journalists who lost their lives in the line of duty. Two sets of data - the world press freedom index and journalist killings around the world - are necessary to throw light on the state of the freedom of the press. World Press Freedom index Reporters without borders (RWB), a non-profit organisation that tracks attacks on press freedom, has ranked every country according to its press freedom index. The Scandinavian countries - Finland, Norway and Denmark - topped the list. China, Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia were placed at the end of the list with many Asian and African countries where press freedom is dwindling. However, there has been a worrying decline in general when compared to last year's index due to information

suppression because of various conflicts in 2014 such as the ones in the Middle East, Syria and Iraq India's ranking on the World Press Freedom Index has not improved over the years. It has always scored a threedigit ranking its inception. According to RWB, the following attacks on media last year were identified as the major issues for India's low score. 1. Indian government's ban on AlJazeera for five days for displaying maps in which India’s border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir did not correspond to its territorial claims. 2. Indian authorities’ search aimed at members of the Karen community in the Andaman Islands, for those who helped two French documentarians gain access to the prohibited lands of the Jarawa tribe. 3. Attacks on journalists in Jammu and Kashmir during coverage of the 2014 parliamentary election. 4. Arrest of Jitendra Prasad Das, a subeditor with the Oriya-language daily Samaj in Cuttack, Odisha, for publishing a picture of the Prophet Mohammed. Journalists killed in the line of duty The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent non-profit

organisation that promotes press freedom worldwide, has ranked every country according to the number of journalists killed in the line of duty till May 2015. CPJ has been publishing the list since 1992. Twenty-one journalists were killed this year. France tops the list because of the killing of eight journalists from Charlie Hebdo in a terror attack. Since 1992, 1,123 journalists have been killed in the line of duty. While Iraq tops the list with 166 journalist killings, India is at 9th position with 34 deaths. # “Journalists killed” in the table includes only cases in which Reporters Without Borders has clearly established that the victim was killed because of his/her activities as a journalist. It does not include cases in which the motives were not related to the victim’s work or in which a link has not yet been confirmed.” Further analysis of the data brings out the following results: 1. 46% of the journalists who were killed were on the political beat, followed by 38% covering war and 20% corruption. Sports journalism comes at the end of the list with 2%. 2. 51% of journalists who were killed

belonged to the print media, followed by 30% from television, 20% from radio and 11% from digital media. 3. 93% of them were male journalists while 17% were freelancers. 4. 66% of them were murdered, 20% were killed in crossfire or combat and 13% died while covering a dangerous assignment.

India's Press Freedom Index India has been ranked 136 among 180 countries worldwide in terms of press freedom in 2015 Position in last 10 years Year Rank/No of Countries 2014 #140 / 180 2013 #140 / 178 2012 #140 / 178 2011 2010 #122 / 173 2009 #105 / 170 2008 #118 / 168 2007 #120 / 164 2006 #105 / 161 2005 #106 / 161 Source: RSF.org

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With over 7000 dead, Nepal seeks more int’l aid Kathmandu, may 3 (IanS) Nepal on Sunday told the international community to urgently step up its earthquake relief as the death toll from the April 25 temblor climbed to 7,250, with 2.8 million people displaced across the Himalayan nation. Underlining the gravity of the situation, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala told a top UN official here that relief goods reaching Nepal were not enough and that the world must speed up its efforts to help his battered country sandwiched between India and China. The Nepal Army, which is coordinating the massive rescue and search operations, also said that international aid had not arrived in the manner Kathmandu needed to face its worst natural disaster since 1934. The SOS came amid the home ministry’s latest estimates that the deadly quake had affected over eight million people, with 3.5 million in desperate need of food assistance. Tents, mats, blankets, contraceptives, squatting pans, dust bins, utensils... Nepal has sent out an updated list of what it needs following the earthquake that left more than 14,000 people injured. According to officials, Nepal’s immediate re-

Buried under rubble, 101-yr-old survived a week by eating flour

In this April 30, 2015 photo, a Nepalese woman and a child walk past damaged houses in Kathmandu, Nepal. Although fear has driven many to relatives’ homes in the countryside or kept them in tents or under tarps that have been raised in vacant lots amid pancaked homes, places where the neighbors say corpses are still buried, others have made a wrenching decision. They have returned to buildings that the earthquake rocked partially off their foundations, so that the backside sags dangerously below the front, like an animal squatting on its haunches. They have come back to homes where the brick is crumbling, the walls cracked, the facade drooping, the balcony’s angled toward the ground below. (AP Photo)

quirement also includes mattresses, pillows, bed sheets, mobile toilets, fire extinguishers, lamps (preferably solar), emergency lights and cooking stoves. The country is also seeking water purifiers, sanitation and first aid kits, food and over 150 drugs and surgical items.

Around one million people have left Kathmandu, one of the worst affected places, following the disaster, officials told IANS. Although a semblance of normal life can be seen in some parts of Kathmandu, much of the city and indeed the country are still carrying the scars of

the killer quake. To add to the woes, three tremors were recorded on Sunday in different parts of Nepal. The biggest was 4.5 on the Richter scale. Though officials are asking people not to worry, every aftershock triggers fear. The biggest worry for the authorities is how to

distribute relief among the tens of thousands left without food in several areas outside of Kathmandu. Those who survived and living in the open are struggling to get food and goods of daily use due to the mass exodus of traders from the capital. On Sunday, public

Kathmandu, may 3 (ht): Amazing stories of resilience continue to emerge from quake-hit Nepal, the latest on Sunday being the rescue of a 101-year-old man who was trapped in the rubble of his home for seven days. Fangshu Tamang, a resident of Khimtang village in Nuwakot, one of the 14 districts hit hardest by the April 25 temblor, was rescued on Saturday afternoon by a team of Nepalese soldiers and policemen. “The centenarian was trapped under the verandah of the collapsed house when the quake struck. We were lucky to have found him alive,” said Arun Poudel, Nuwakot’s deputy superintendent of police. “He suffered minor injuries on his left hand, left leg and chest and was sent by helicopter to the district headquarters, where he is undergoing treatment at the hospital in Bidur.” Tamang is in good health and police officers quoted doctors as saying that his condition is stable. The man was in his twenties when Nepal’s last major earthquake occurred in 1934. He told journalists that he survived by eating flour and drinking water from containers lying near him. “Those who should have survived lost their lives and someone like me who is near death has found a new life,” he said. Recalling the 8-magnitude quake of 1934, Tamang said he felt last week’s quake was more powerful. There were reports that three more people were rescued from under the debris of their home in Sindhupalchowk district on Sunday but the information could not immediately be verified. transport resumed its service. Some vehicles also plied on the roads. Life in major parts of the city like New Road, Baneshwor, Koteshwor and Maharjgunj appeared normal but not in Bhaktapur which saw many deaths and widespread destruction.

Several national and international agencies are distributing relief material. Sita Tamang, who does small business around Darahar area of Kathmandu that was severely damaged in the quake, told IANS that she has no choice but to restart her small business on the footpath.

Thousands who fled their homes after the quake and began living in open spaces have started returning to their houses. But those whose houses were majorly damaged or destroyed are still out in the open. There are 24,000 such people in Kathmandu. Hospitals are overcrowded with the injured. Doctors continue to treat them in the open due to shortage of beds. Some hospitals suffered cracks in the quake. “We have provided free treatment to the injured,” a health ministry official said. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Sunday started garbage collection. It also distributed 100,200 litres of drinking water besides gloves and masks to those in the worst affected areas. But lack of coordination among the national and international aid agencies has hampered the relief distribution. The government request that money must be donated to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund has irked many. Security agencies from Nepal, India and China continued their search and rescue work on Sunday. Officials fear that hundreds of bodies are yet to be pulled out from tonnes of rubble.

Angela Merkel joins survivors, US vets Al Qaeda claims murder of Bangladesh-born US blogger to mark Dachau liberation

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and camp survivor Max Mannheimer lay a wreath at the crematory of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, southern Germany, Sunday, May 3 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. (AP Photo)

daChau, may 3(aP): It was a shocking, horrifying “beautiful day.” Survivors and liberators alike recalled on Sunday the horror of the Dachau concentration camp and the overwhelming relief of its liberation 70 years ago. German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to keep alive the memory of Nazi crimes and give no quarter to present-day discrimination or anti-Semitism. Dachau, near Munich, was the first concentration camp the Nazis set up - a few weeks after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Before it was liberated by US troops on April 29,

1945, more than 200,000 people from across Europe were held there and over 40,000 prisoners died. “When we entered the camp exactly 70 years ago, it was a terrible shock to see how much you, the survivors, had suffered from starvation, disease, brutality and freezing conditions,” Alan Lukens, who entered Dachau as a U.S. army private in 1945, said at the anniversary ceremony at the former camp. “But we will never forget your excitement and ours as were entered the camp and were overwhelmed by you, as you hugged us and brought out a hand-sewn American flag which you had hidden for the occasion,” said Lukens, who later became a U.S. diplomat. Alongside the joy, he remembered that “SS snipers, after hanging out white surrender flags, shot several American GIs as we entered the camp.” Former prisoner Jean Samuel remembered Dachau’s liberation as “the most beautiful day of my life.” He described inmates from many nations welcoming the American liberators at the camp’s assembly ground. “An immense crowd acclaimed them, and by some sort of magic the flags of all the countries fluttered in the wind,” Samuel said. He recalled that, after showering and being deloused, “I felt like a living being again.” Returning to France at age 21, Samuel said he wanted to forget his experience and get on with his life. “I put Dachau in a corner of my memory,” he said. After retiring, however, he decided to speak out as “a witness of the unspeakable” and fulfill a duty

to keep the memories of what happened at Dachau alive. That duty has been underlined by the still-unsolved theft of the wrought-iron camp gate bearin g the slogan “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work sets you free.” A replica was put in place on Wednesday, the anniversary of the camp’s liberation, ahead of the commemoration traditionally held on the Sunday following April 29. “Incidents such as the theft last November of the former gate at the Dachau concentration camp — the central symbol of the prisoners’ suffering — unfortunately dismay us time and again,” Merkel said. “Incidents like this show clearly how important it is to work every day for a better future, in awareness of Germany’s everlasting responsibility for the horrors of the past.” “We will not forget,” she said. “We will remember, for the sake of the victims, for our sake and for the sake of future generations.” Merkel thanked survivors for sharing memories of suffering that is “beyond our imagination,” which she said help young people today “connect naked numbers and data with faces, names and individual lives.” And she stressed the importance of ensuring that today’s youth do not turn to extremism. All in Germany must “make unmistakably clear that Jewish life is part of our identity; that discrimination, marginalization and antiSemitism can have no place here, that they must be fought with determination and the full force of legal means,” she said.

dhaKa, may 3 (aFP): Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American atheist blogger in Bangladesh over two months ago, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Avijit Roy was hacked to death by two assailants with machetes on the streets of the capital Dhaka in February as he returned from a book fair with his wife. AQIS leader Asim Umar said his organisation was responsible for the attack in a video posted on jihadist forums yesterday, according to SITE, a US website that monitors extremist groups. He also claimed the murders of other “blasphemers”. A spokesman for Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Bat-

talion (RAB) force, which is tasked with tackling militancy in the Muslim- majority nation, said it couldn’t be certain the claim was correct. “We are not sure,” Mufti Mahmud told AFP when asked if Al Qaeda was behind the deaths of Roy and anti-Islam writers Ahmed Rajib Haider and Washiqur Rahman. Haider and Rahman were also killed by machete-wielding attackers. Haider died in 2013 and Rahman was hacked to death in March. A little-known Bangladeshi militant group called Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) has also apparently claimed responsibility for Roy’s murder via a twitter account which police have not been able to verify as genuine.

The Bangladesh-born writer, who emigrated to the southern US state of Georgia some 15 years ago, was well known in his native land for his Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog where he railed against all forms of organised religion. He was also the author of a series of books, including the best-selling “The Virus of Faith”, which was hugely contentious in Bangladesh, an officially secular state where around 90 per cent of people are Muslim. In March, police arrested two madrassa students over the killing of Rahman. Police are investigating whether they belonged to ABT and whether they had any connection with Roy’s murder.

At least 10 migrants found dead in sea off Libya ROmE, may 3 (aP): Italian Coast Guard and commercial vessels came to the rescue of at least 16 boats of migrants Sunday, saving hundreds of them and recovering 10 bodies off Libya’s coast, as smugglers took advantage of calm seas to send packed vessels across the Mediterranean. The Italian Coast Guard said the bodies were found in three separate rescue operations off Libya’s coast. The Coast Guard was being aided by a tug and a merchant ship in at least some of the rescue efforts. Sunday’s drama at sea came a day after 3,690 mi-

grants were saved from smugglers’ boats. Most of those migrants were still being taken to southern Italian ports even as the fresh rescues were taking place. The soaring numbers sparked the latest round of calls from far-right politicians in Europe for drastic action to stop migrants from reaching European shores, once and for all. Far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen said France should send migrants back across the Mediterranean Sea. A French patrol boat on Saturday rescued 217 mi-

grants from three rubber dinghies and detained two suspected smugglers before all were turned over to Italian authorities. Criticizing European immigration policy, Le Pen said on Europe-1 radio Sunday that France should send migrants back to their port of departure so “traffickers know that no migrant will come ashore on our coasts.” With Italy bearing the brunt of the arrivals for years now, the Italian far right, spearheaded by the anti-immigrant Northern League party, has also been pushing for a radical

change in how the migrant sea arrivals are handled. One such suggestion has been to keep rescued migrants aboard large ferries offshore until their asylum applications, a process that can take months or more, are examined. Then those only found eligible for asylum in Europe would come ashore. Some of the migrants rescued earlier in the weekend were brought to tiny Lampedusa island, while others were headed to ports in Sicily or in Calabria, in the south of the Italian mainland, on Monday.

Nigeria: Nearly 300 freed women, children led to safety yOLa, may 3 (aP): Their faces were gaunt, their hair tinted orange, their stomachs distended, all signs of malnutrition. They looked ragged, lost, shattered. But the girls were alive and free. They were among a group of 275 children and women rescued from Boko Haram extremists, the first to arrive at a refugee camp Saturday after a three-day journey to safety, brought by Nigeria’s military. They came from the Sambisa Forest, the last stronghold of the Islamic extremists, where the Nigerian military said it has rescued more than 677 girls and women and destroyed more than a dozen insurgent camps in the past week. Two newborns were among the first arrivals. “Boko Haram killed the father of this child,” Lami Musa told The Associated Press, cradling a fourday-old girl with black curls glistening with sweat in the 104-degrees Fahrenheit (40-degrees Celsius) heat. Tears came to her eyes when she was asked if she has other children: “Three of them. Boko Haram killed my husband and

grabbed me. I have no idea where my other children are.” She said she lost her family in an attack by the militants on her village of Lassa in December. The baby was born the day before the group set off from the Sambisa for a refugee camp in Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, crammed into the backs of rickety, open pick-up trucks. On the trip’s first day, one military vehicle escorting the group exploded a landmine, wounding two soldiers, according to a soldier traveling with them. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists. Soldiers on foot then swept the road ahead of the convoy, he said, so it took three days to travel potholed roads for the 300 kilometers (200 miles) southwest to Yola. Musa, 27, could barely walk when they arrived, limping on feet swollen to massive size. She said she couldn’t nurse her unnamed baby, because her breasts have no milk. She’s among several dozen in the group taken first to the clinic at the refugee camp, set up in an unused boarding school.

There, 22 were dispatched immediately to a hospital in town. Dr. Mohammed Auwal said many were suffering from malaria, diarrhea and malnutrition. As night crept in, the camp is lit by a generator that powered the clinic and a bulb in a tree under which the military handed over the females to the National Emergency Management Agency at a brief ceremony. For nearly a year, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan had been promising to bring home all the people kidnapped by Boko Haram home — especially 219 schoolgirls abducted from their boarding school in the town of Chibok. That mass kidnapping a year ago outraged many around the world. It still was not clear Saturday whether any of the students who have come to be called “the Chibok girls” are among the newly freed. The military has spent days “processing” them and trying to identify them. Now they will get medical and psychological care to begin their rehabilitation, said Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, the emergency agency’s

director for search and rescue. The women were exhausted, too traumatized to realize they were safe, or be questioned about their experiences under Boko Haram. They lined up for tea, water and a stew of baobab leaves. Some women shot at their rescuers and were killed, as Boko Haram used them as an armed human shield for its main fighting force. Nigerian soldiers were shocked when women opened fire on troops who had come to rescue them in the village of Nbita last week, The Associated Press was told by a military intelligence officer and a soldier who were at the scene. The women killed seven soldiers and 12 of the women were killed, they said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. Most of the rescued are traumatized, said army spokesman Col. Sani Usman. Boko Haram had seized a large swath of northeast Nigeria last year, declaring it an Islamic caliphate. Nigerian troops ran away before their advance, complaining they were not given

enough ammunition or food to fight, and leaving civilians with no defense against an uprising that killed as many as 10,000 people last year. Some 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes. The tide turned in the past nine weeks with a new infusion of armory including helicopter gunships, and a coalition with troops from neighboring countries. Jonathan on Thursday vowed to “hand over a Nigeria completely free of terrorist strongholds” when he cedes power on May 29. He lost March 28 elections, in part because of the military failures against Boko Haram and his handling of the hostage situation. Former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari won the election and has promised to wipe out Boko Haram. Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, the Defense Ministry spokesman, said in a statement Friday night: “The assault on the forest is continuing from various fronts and efforts are concentrated on rescuing hostages of civilians and destroying all terrorist camps and facilities in the forest.”

A girl rescued by Nigerian soldiers from Boko Haram extremists at Sambisa Forest lines up with others for food upon their arrival at a refugee camp in Yola, Nigeria Saturday, May 2. They were among a group of 275 people rescued from the Islamic extremists, the first to arrive at the refugee camp Saturday after a three-day journey to safety. The Nigerian military said it has rescued more than 677 girls and women and destroyed more than a dozen insurgent camps in the past week. (AP Photo)

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Juventus seals 4th successive Serie A title

Juventus' coach Massimiliano Allegri is thrown in the air in celebration at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Sampdoria and Juventus, at the Luigi Ferraris stadium in Genoa, Italy, Saturday, May 2. (AP Photo)

MIlan, May 3 (aP): His appointment protested against, coach Massimiliano Allegri won over any last doubters as Juventus clinched a fourth successive Serie A title on Saturday with four matches to spare and a treble in sight. Juventus was rocked when Antonio Conte quit in the offseason, and further stunned when he was replaced by Allegri, who was fired by AC Milan months earlier and appeared to be the antithesis of the beloved former coach. However, the Italian giant won 1-0 at Sampdoria on Saturday to claim the first of potentially three trophies as it faces Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals, and Lazio in the Italian Cup final. After dominating the entire season, Juventus needed just a point to mathematically seal a 31st Serie A title. A first-half header from Arturo Vidal gave it all three. "The first days here were good. I only had five or six players and we lost a friendly against Lucento!" Allegri said with laugh. "Afterwards, the lads were at my disposal and I tried to create a group, we started to work without ruining the work done in three extraordinary years. "The players have great human qualities as well as technical ones, as to win four consecutive scudetti is extraordinary.

Now we have to put this crazy evening to one side and think of the cups. I thank everyone who has helped me on this path, from the staff, to the club, to the players." Allegri was also the last coach before Conte to win the league, with Milan in 2011 — also in his first season in charge. Andrea Pirlo was part of that team, and has now won his fifth successive Serie A. Although the title was never really in doubt, the relief and joy at the final whistle was clear, although the club has put its trophy celebrations on ice with a crucial Champions League match in just three days. Vidal, who also scored in a 1-0 win against Palermo which clinched the league in 2013, admitted he had "never seen a title celebrated so little." "They gave us 10 minutes," Juventus captain and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said. "Also because the thought of Real is pulsating through us. Our joy is inevitable, also because we have sealed it as soon as possible, allowing us to dedicate our body and soul to this challenge." Buffon admitted the change of manager was difficult for the players as well as the fans. "This title has a particular taste for me, for the group too," he said. "It's the proof that the squad has a very exceptional mentality, a spirit of self-sacrifice which I don't think has an equal.

Ronaldo hat-trick keeps Madrid in touch with Barca Barcelona, May 3 (aP): Ronaldo almost single-handedly dealt Sevilla its first loss at home in 35 consecutive games going back to February 2014 with a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium. Barcelona leads Madrid by two points with three games left to decide which replaces Atletico Madrid as champion. "Hope is the last thing you lose. We have to do what we are supposed to and win the last three games," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. Barcelona will take a run of 15 wins in 16 matches back to Camp Nou, where it faces former

Paul lifts Clippers past Spurs, 111-109 in Game 7

loS anGeleS, May 3 (aP): Chris Paul banked in a shot with a second left to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a thrilling 111-109 victory over San Antonio in Game 7 on Saturday that eliminated the defending NBA champion Spurs from the playoffs. After Spurs veteran Tim Duncan made two free throws to tie it with 8.8 seconds left, Paul drove the right side. He originally was covered by Danny Green before Duncan came over to help. Paul put up a onehanded shot over the 39-year-old that went in as he was falling away. Paul said coach Doc Rivers spoke to him and Blake Griffin before the game about last-shot scenarios. "We've been in that situation a lot of times already this year, and most of the time I hadn't made it," Paul said. "We talked about it, and finally it worked when we needed it." Rivers said Paul, who was hampered by a hamstring injury, is "just a tough kid. He's a street fighter. I mean, he really is. I love him to death because of his will." Duncan said Paul's shot was "just unbelievable. I know he was playing a little hurt, and he played through all that, found ways to get it done. Just an unbelievable last shot over two of us. He's just a great leader, and it was amazing to watch. I wish I wasn't on the other end." Matt Barnes knocked away the inbound pass to seal the victory and the Staples Center crowd went crazy after the Clippers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals for just the fourth time in franchise history. The Clippers, who faltered at home in Games 2 and 5, move on to face Houston starting Monday. Paul scored 18 of his 27 points in the second half, including four big 3-pointers. Duncan had 27 points and 11 rebounds, his sixth double-double of the series. Paul missed the final

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coach Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals on Wednesday. Madrid visits Juventus the day before in their final-four tie. Messi surpassed the 50goal mark in his 50th match of the season. Suarez, likewise, stayed in fine form with five goals in his last two matches, and 17 goals in his last 16 appearances, while Neymar earned and converted a penalty five minutes from time to extend his scoring run to four straight matches. Elsewhere, Atletico was held to 0-0 at home by Athletic Bilbao as the soon-tobe-dethroned titleholder

J&K, Nagaland join HI, call for IOA meet neW DelHI, May 3 (IanS): Two days after Hockey India (HI) demanded a noconfidence motion against Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president N. Ramachandran, the Olympic associations of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and Nagaland on Saturday asked for a Special General Body Meeting (SBGM) to be called "to set things right" within IOA. HI president Narinder Batra on Thursday initiated a move for a SBGM to discuss Ramachandran's future as he felt he was "working towards weakening and finishing off the IOA". "J&K Olympic Association is of the view that General Body meeting of IOA may be convened as early as possible to set things right in the parent national body," J&K Olympic Association general secretary Ashutosh Sharma said in a statement. Batra on Saturday said the "functioning of IOA became more or less a closely guarded secretive affair and nothing was made transparent" after Ramachandran's election as IOA president in February, 2014. The discontent within the IOA swelled during the recent visit of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach. Members of the IOA, representatives of the National Sports Federations (NSFs) and state units were not only peeved over the "lack of protocol" towards Bach but also with the treatment meted out to them during their meeting with the IOC supremo.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, centre, in action with Sevilla’s Daniel Carrico from Portugal, right, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Sevilla and Real Madrid at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Sevilla, Spain, Saturday, May 2. (AP Photo)

remained in third place at 11 points adrift. Deportivo La Coruna was left in the relegation zone after drawing 1-1 at home with sixth-place Villarreal. Ronaldo's three goals took his league-leading tally to 42, keeping the Ballon d'Or holder ahead of Messi, who has 40 goals, as the two stars vie to finish the league as top scorer. Sevilla held its own and traded scoring opportunities with Jose Antonio Reyes leading its attack until holding midfielder Gregorz Krychowiak smashed his face into the back of Sergio Ramos' head, causing his nose to

bleed profusely. The Polish player went to the sideline to receive treatment in the 30th minute and when he returned 10 minutes later Madrid has winning by two goals. Ronaldo scored them both against the undermanned defense, first heading home Francisco "Isco" Alarcon's cross in the 36th before he acrobatically dove to stab in a ball flicked on by Javier Hernandez a minute later. Back to full strength, Sevilla mustered a push before halftime that yielded a penalty for Carlos Bacca to convert in injury time after Ramos fouled Aleix Vidal.

Gareth Bale returned from a left-leg injury in the 66th and three minutes later sent in a cross to the far post that Ronaldo scored with a brilliant header to lift the ball over goalkeeper Sergio Rico from a tight angle. Substitute Vicente Iborra slotted in a short pass from Vidal to boost Sevilla's hopes of a comeback in the 79th, and Unai Emery's team just missed the equalizer when Denis Suarez's effort squirmed by the post with five to play. Sevilla stayed in fifth place, level on points with Valencia in fourth as they contest the last Champions League berth.

3rd successive loss for United; 8th for Newcastle

Manchester United's Chris Smalling, centre left, fights for the ball against West Bromwich Albion's Jonas Olsson, left, as Gareth McAuley, centre right, looks on during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, May 2. (AP Photo)

olD TraFForD, May 3 (aP): After a third successive loss, Manchester United's bid to return to the Champions League is stuttering. A 1-0 loss to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday left United still in fourth place but only four points ahead of Liverpool with three Premier League games to go. Liverpool relied on Steven Gerrard's late goal after the captain missed a penalty, to beat 10-man Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Anfield. United's slump has come just when it Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, center, goes up for a dunk as San appeared to have turned a corner under Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan, left, and guard Tony Parker, of France, deLouis van Gaal, reeling off six successive fends during the second half of Game 7 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series, Saturday, May 2, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo) victories before this latest downturn at Old Trafford. "We knew in defense they park 2 minutes of the first quarter and all the things we'd been through," the bus so we have to deal with that, and the first 5 1/2 minutes of the second Paul said. "I know that if it was any in the first half we didn't create enough quarter. He appeared to get hurt as other guy on our team in a situation chances to score," Van Gaal said. "The finhe dribbled up court before making like this, they wouldn't lay down, so I ishing was not good enough." a 3-pointer. He sat on the bench with just tried to find a way." Blake Griffin West Brom, though, will be more his head in his hands before leaving had 24 points, 13 rebounds and 10 hopeful of surviving in the topflight after for the locker room. assists for Los Angeles for his second Chris Brunt's free kick was deflected into "I thought about the team and triple-double of the series. the net by Jonas Olsson in the second half, and United striker Robin van Persie then had a penalty saved. The central England team is seven points clear of the drop zone. But Newcastle has been sucked into a relegation battle by losing a club record eight Premier League games in a row. As if the club wasn't in enough disarray after a 3-0 loss at Leicester, manager John Carver then accused one of the two dismissed Newcastle players of intentionally getting sent off. Discussing Mike Williamson's late knee-high challenge on Jamie Vardy after an hour, Carver said: "I thought he meant that and I have told him so." Newcastle was already losing at that point, having conceded two goals from Leonardo Ulloa and another from Wes Morgan. Leicester is a point and a place above the danger zone but relegation rivals have games in hand, including Sunderland, which is directly below them. Jordi Gomez scored two penalties to clinch a 2-1 victory over Southampton, of which Jamie WardProwse was sent off. Aston Villa edged Players in action during the Ist Open Penalty Shoot- out Tournament organised by Prodigies at Seikhazou (D. Khel Ground), Kohima village Everton 3-2 to stay two points clear of Sunderland, with Christian Benteke scoring on May 2. (Morung Photo)

twice and Tom Cleverley adding a third for the FA Cup finalists. But Burnley and QPR nudged closer to an instant return to the League Championship after losses. Burnley is eight points from safety — with nine points to play for — after Mark Noble converted a penalty following Michael Duff's sending off to give West Ham a 1-0 victory. QPR is a point above Burnley. Although Leroy Fer volleyed QPR level at Anfield, canceling out Philippe Coutinho's first-half opener, the London club saw Nedum Onuoha sent off 10 minutes later for fouling Jordon Ibe before Gerrard's winner. There was only one match in the Premier League with few nerves on Saturday. Swansea beat Stoke 2-0 in a mid-table clash, and the eighth-place side is set for its highest ever finish. The day's football began with Bournemouth being promoted to the Premier League for the first time as secondtier champion after Watford threw away the title in the final seconds of the season. Already guaranteed promotion, Watford led the League Championship heading into Saturday's final round and was beating Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 until stoppage time when it conceded to draw 1-1. That meant Bournemouth clinched the trophy by a single point by beating Charlton 3-0, only five years after the south-coast team was playing in the fourth tier. There is another spot in the Premier League available to the playoff final winners. In the two-leg playoff semifinals, Norwich will play Ipswich in an east coast derby, and Middlesbrough will face Brentford. The season ended in controversy for last-place Blackpool, with a protest by fans against chairman Karl Oyston leading to the game against Huddersfield being abandoned. Three minutes into the second half hundreds of disgruntled Blackpool fans poured onto the field, forcing the referee to take players off. The Football League said it will decide whether to replay the match, but Blackpool had already been relegated and also faces Football Association action over its fans' behavior.

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Jennifer Aniston's 'guilty pleasure'? It is 'Botched'

ritain's Duchess Catherine's parents "offer the closest to ordinary life" for the newborn princess. The 33-year-old royal delivered her second child with Prince William yesterday morning (02.05.15), and royal experts believe it is the tot's maternal grandparents Michael and Carole Middleton who will provide a degree of normality to her life away from the spotlight. Royal writer Robert Lacey explained: "The thing about the Middletons is that they are thoroughly self-assured and self-contained. They have a stable home and family life, and that clearly appeals to William. "Even when he goes down to stay with his grandparents in the country, Prince George is surrounded by security. "It's difficult to say it's an ordinary life but perhaps the Middletons offer the closest to ordinary life inside that stockade of security." The as-yet unnamed Princess of Cambridge was born at 08.34am BST weighing 8lbs 3oz, and despite only being a day old, experts have already predicted she will have a huge impact on the British economy, with the potential to raise ÂŁ150 million for businesses and designers in the UK every year of her life. Brand expert Robert Haigh told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "This baby girl opens up a whole new demographic for the 'Brand Windsor-effect'. "In the years to come her wardrobe will be carefully scrutinised, with the specific items she wears likely to sell out in days and the labels enjoying long-lasting uplifts in brand strength and sales."

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ctress Jennifer Aniston says one of her biggest guilty pleasures is watching a TV show which explores what happens when people go under the knife to improve their appearance, and things go wrong. "My guilty pleasure is the E! TV show 'Botched'. It's all about plastic surgery gone wrong. It should be renamed 'Crazy People'," Aniston said. When she isn't working or watching TV, the "Friends" star finds meditation the perfect way to ease stress. "I've been meditating for about four years. I take 20 minutes in the morning and the evening. It's hard to put your finger on what's changing but you do feel a release of stress," she said. The 46-year-old actress has experimented with a number of hairstyles over the years but admits her favourite is a "boring" hairdo, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "I've tried lots of hairstyles over the years - I had the 'Rachel' and I've gone from a superlong to a super-short bob. But I'm actually really boring and my favourite is the straight-down-the-middle seventies babysitter hair," she said. "The worst thing I've done in the quest for Britain's Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, pose for the media with beauty was to iron my hair their newborn daughter outside St. Mary's Hospital's exclusive Lindo Wing, London on Sat- to straighten it," she told urday, May 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) Tatler magazine.

Justin Bieber and Beyonce among attendees at Boxing Match

ustin Bieber, Beyonce and Jay Z were among stars who watched the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas last night (02.05.15). The troubled musician made an appearance at the highly-anticipated

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event - dubbed the 'Fight of the Century' - backing victorious boxer Floyd Mayweather as he walked out at the beginning of the match, but was also spotted flirting with 24-year-old Australian model Shanina Shaik throughout the evening. The 21-year-old

'Boyfriend' singer showed off his Calvin Klein underwear and abs during a prefight party at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in a bid to impress the beauty, and was later seen joking and laughing with her as they celebrated his pal's victory on the way to an after party. 'Drunk in Love' hitmaker Beyonce was also spotted ringside in a daring red jacket with rapper husband Jay Z for the match at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, where they sat alongside stars including Lewis Hamilton, Ben Affleck, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert de Niro. Other famous faces in attendance included comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who walked on with Manny Pacquiao at the beginning of the fight, Paris Hilton, who wore a sheer metallic top, DJ Diplo and athlete Michael Jordan. Retired boxer Mike Tyson

also turned up to watch the fight, as well as rapper Nicki Minaj, 'Birdman' actor Michael Keaton, actress Drew Barrymore and 'In Da Club' hitmaker 50 Cent. Meanwhile, other high profile stars took to social media to share snaps of where they were watching the legendary fight, with Kim Kardashian West revealing her and husband Kanye West had decided to watch on a comfy sofa along with pals Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Wade, and La La and Carmelo Anthony. One Direction star Niall Horan also had his say on the fight by commentating on Twitter, where he praised 38-year-old Floyd. nHe wrote: "To be fair to Mayweather, a lot of people don't like him but, he just gave a tactical masterclass tonight, doesn't have a mark on his face."

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Matthias Schoenaerts Tips Eddie Redmayne For Second Oscar Check Out Great Pitch Perfect 2 Clips

atthias Schoenaerts thinks that Eddie Redmayne could well pick up a second Oscar nomination for his performance in The Danish Girl. Redmayne picked up his first Best Actor Oscar nomination and win earlier this year for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. But now it seems that a second could be on the way, according to his latest co-star. Schoenaerts stars alongside Redmayne in the Tom Hooper directed film, which is inspired by the true story of Danish artist Lili Elbe - who was one of the first people to undergo the sex change procedure. And Schoenaerts believes that Redmayne's

performance in the film will make him a frontrunner during the awards season next year. Speaking to Collider, the actor said: "We just wrapped it exactly a week ago. Yeah, we were in Norway in a beautiful place on top of a mountain with a crazy panoramic view. "I don't want to jinx it, but I

can honestly say I'm pretty sure that Eddie Redmayne is gonna get his second Oscar nom, if not just the second Oscar period." The Danish Girl is the first film for director Hooper since the success of Les Miserables and see him reunite with Redmayne for their second project together.

Redmayne and Schoenaerts are joined on the cast list by Amber Heard, Alicia Vikander, and Ben Whishaw. As for Schoenaerts he is back on the big screen this week with Far From The Madding Crowd - an adaptation of the Thomas Hardy in which he takes on the role of Gabriel Oak. It has already been a busy year for the actor as we have seen him star in A Little Chaos and Suite Francaise. He has also completed work on Close Protection, and A Bigger Splash. Schoenaerts is set to turn his hand to the small screen with TV mini-series Lewis and Clark on the horizon, which will also star Casey Affleck. The Danish Girl is released 1st January 2016.

U2's album cover promotes homosexuality, says Russian Lawmaker

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Russian legislator has accused Apple and the band U2 of violating the Russian law "against gay propaganda among minors" by uploading U2's latest album, Songs of Innocence, to iTunes customers worldwide, including Russia, in September 2014. Alexander Starovoitov, a member of the Russian State Duma, the lower chamber of Parliament, asked the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the incident, reported Billboard magazine. "Just like many citizens of the Russian Federation, I am an iPhone owner," Starovoitov said in the address to the Prosecutor's Office, quoted by the Russian daily Izvestia. "In 2014, tracks by U2 were uploaded in a vi-

ral way to my Music folder in iTunes, with the album cover featuring what I believe to be two men engaged in a manifestation of non-traditional sexual relations," Starovoitov added.

Starovoitov apparently referred to the album's cover photo featuring the band's drummer Larry Mullen, Jr embracing his 18-year-old son, Elvis, while both are shirtless.

itch Perfect was one the surprise hits of 2012 and three years later the Bellas are back and facing their biggest challenge yet. Pitch Perfect 2 sees Elizabeth Banks - who starred in the first film take over the director's chair, as this movie will mark her feature film directorial debut. However, do not fear Banks fans, she will be reprising the role of Gail in the new film alongside favourites Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson - who are back as Beca and Fat Amy. There is less than a fortnight to go until the film hits the big screen and we have a trio of great clips for you to take a look at: Brittany Snow and Alexis Knapp are a couple of the other familiar faces on board, while Oscar nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld is one of the big new additions to the cast list. Pitch Perfect was a movie that really snuck up on us in 2012, but the sequel won't have that luxury, as it is one of the May movies that you cannot miss. However, it looks like it is going to be a lot of fun and the musical numbers look bigger than ever. Pitch Perfect 2 is released 15th May.

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Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

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Mayweather cements Chelsea secure legacy with Pacquiao win Premier League title

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LONDON, MAy 3 (AP): Chelsea won the Premier League for the first time in five years on Sunday, securing the title with three games to spare with a 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace. The title-winning goal came from Eden Hazard, a week after the Belgium winger's dynamic, individual displays were honored by his fellow professionals with the player of the year award. Although Hazard's uncharacteristically weak penalty kick was saved by Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni at the end of the first half, the Belgian head- Crystal Palaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goalkeeper Julian Speroni, centre left, saves from Chelsea's Nemanja Matic ed in the rebound. during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Crystal Palace at The scrappy, slender Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Sunday, May 3. (AP Photo) win encapsulated Chelsea's recent performances but it was enough to establish an insurmountable lead and dethrone Manchester City, having spent the entire season at the summit. "When you go five years without winning it ... it hurts so we're going to enjoy it,"Chelsea captain John Terry said as the blue and white streamers deEden Medical Centre is the first private multispecialty hospital in the North scended on the Stamford Bridge field. East equipped with a state of the art Linear Accelerator (Elekta) for Cancer Chelsea will have to Treatment. It can deliver Conventional, Conformal (3-D CRT) and Intensity wait until the final day of Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT). The Centre is also equipped with the latest the season here against 16 multi-slice CT Scanner/Simulator for precise treatment planning and Sunderland before the troaccurate radiation delivery. The laboratory has the latest equipment in phy can be collected but biochemistry, hematology, immunology and microbiology to give highly they can already start celaccurate results within minimum time frame. All biopsies and cytological tests ebrating the domestic double. The team also won the can be done in the hospital without outside referral. It is also equipped with League Cup in March and latest generation 3-D Ultrasound and Digital X-Ray machines. Jose Mourinho's third Premier League title success Patients may avail of the following confirms that the Portufacilities at the Centre from guese coach is back at the Monday, 04/05/2015 : pinnacle of management in England. RADIOTHERAPY CHEMOTHERAPY CT SIMULATION MEDICINE OPD CONSULTATION ONCOLOGY (CANCER) OPD CONSULTATION RADIO-DIAGNOSTIC FACILITIES LABORATORY FACILITIES

Manny Pacquiao, from the Philippines, right, punches Floyd Mayweather Jr., during their welterweight title fight on Saturday, May 2 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo)

LAS VEGAS, MAy 3 (REutERS): Floyd Mayweather Jr cemented his place among the pantheon of boxing greats by improving to 48-0 with a unanimous decision over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday in a fight that lived up to its immense hype and price tag. Mayweather weathered an early assault from the Filipino southpaw before winning the later rounds using his reach and jab to finish ahead on all three scorecards in a welterweight showdown set to be the top grossing prize fight of all-time. "When the history books are written, it was worth the wait," Mayweather said in the ring after a four-belt unification bout that was more than five years in the making. Though Pacquiao repeatedly forced Mayweather to backpedal, the wily American blunted his opponent's best efforts by using his renowned defensive skills while getting in several telling jabs and punches of his own. Mayweather and Pacquiao had promised to deliver on years of hype and give fans their money's worth and were true to their word in delivering an entertaining contest that had the capacity crowd on its feet roaring from the opening bell to the end of the 12 round showcase. "Manny Pacquiao is a hell of fighter, I see now why he is at the pinnacle of boxing," the 38-year-old Mayweather said after an emotional embrace with Pacquiao. "I'm a smart fighter, I outboxed him. "We knew what we had to do. He's a tough competitor... a very awkward fighter and I had to take my time and watch him closely." The fight between the two greatest boxers of their generation was one that appeared might never happen as Pacquiao resisted Mayweather's demands for blood-testing for five years. When the two camps finally hammered out a deal, it was the richest in boxing history, setting new records for pay-per-view (PPV) buys and gate receipts. The fighters were also paid royally for their night's work, with Mayweather guaranteed $120 million and Pacquiao $80 million although both men could pocket much more depending on the number of PPV purchases. For Mayweather, the fight was one that will shape his legacy. Even if he were to have retired unbeaten there

would have forever been a question mark hanging over his career without at least one meeting against his Filipino rival. SEPTEMBER SWAN SONG Mayweather said in the ring that he would fight again but that his next bout would be his last. "My last fight is in September and then it is time for me to hang it up," Mayweather added. "I am almost 40 years old now, I have been in the sport 19 years, I have been world champion 18 years. "I am truly thankful and I am blessed." Dubbed the "Fight of

the Century" the MGM Grand Garden Arena crackled with energy as the rich and famous settled into their ringside seats. Actors Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington rubbed shoulders with sports celebrities such as Michael Jordan, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and billionaire Donald Trump. With prime seats commanding six-figure sums on the resale market even the very wealthy and very famous were forced to call in favours to secure a golden ticket while an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 fight fans flooded into the desert

gambling capital to be part of the buzz. Wearing a simple white T-shirt, Pacquiao knelt in his corner for a prayer as boos filled the hall when Mayweather appeared on the giant screens. There were no smiles from the stone-faced American as he entered the ring wearing black white and gold trunks and sporting a $23,000 mouth guard infused with flecks of gold and pieces of a hundred dollar bill. Five years of hype then reached a climax when famed announcer Jimmy Lennon stood in the centre of the ring and told the crowd, "the wait is over, it's go time".

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