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PARIS ATTACK ClAImS 127 lIveS Islamic State takes responsibility for terror assault in Paris POINT-BLANK
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Allergic to second hand clothes? Gad! You’re the unluckiest man in the world.
Apna hotel owner shot at
Morung Express News Dimapur | November 14
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Unidentified gunman on Friday night fired upon one Ritika Mehta (48), owner of Apna Hotel, Dimapur inside the hotel at around 9 pm. However, she was saved by providence as the pistol used by the gunman misfired. Speaking to media persons on Saturday, Ritika said one man entered her hotel during closing hours and asked her in Nagamese, “jabo?” “When I replied, ‘where to go?’ he grabbed my wrist and took out a pistol,” she revealed. Upon seeing the pistol, Ritika said she freed herself from the clutch of the gunman and fled the scene. She said the man fired from behind but the gun misfired. An FIR has been lodged and investigations are on. Thanking the police for their cooperation, she appealed them to leave no stone unturned to identify the culprit at the earliest and deal with the case as per the law of the land.
French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France, November 13. (REUTERS)
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko kneels near the French embassy as he commemorates victims of attacks in Paris, in Kiev, Ukraine, November 14. (REUTERS)
PARIS, NOVEMBER 14 (REUTERS): Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for a coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers that killed 127 people at locations across Paris that President Francois Hollande said amounted to an act of war against France. In the worst attack, a Paris city hall official said four gunmen systematically slaughtered at least 87 young people at a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall before anti-terrorist commandos launched an assault on the building. Dozens of survivors were rescued, and bodies were still being recovered on Saturday morning. Some 40 more people were killed in five other attacks in the Paris region, the official said, including an apparent double suicide
which automatic weapons and explosives belts were used, lasted 40 minutes. “The terrorists, the murderers, raked several cafe terraces with machine-gun fire before entering (the concert hall). There were many victims in terrible, atrocious conditions in several places,” police prefect Michel Cadot told reporters.
bombing outside the Stade de France national stadium, where Hollande and the German foreign minister were watching a friendly soccer international. The assaults came as France, a founder member of the U.S.-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks. It was the worst such attack in Europe since the Madrid train bombings of 2004, in which 191 died. Hollande said the attacks had been organised from abroad by Islamic State with internal help. “Faced with war, the country must take appropriate action,” he said after an emergency meeting of security chiefs. He also announced three days of national mourning. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy added in a statement: “The
war we must wage should be total.” In its claim of responsibility, Islamic State said the attacks were a response to France’s campaign against its fighters. It also distributed an undated video in which a militant said France would not live peacefully as long it took part in U.S.-led bombing raids against them. “As long as you keep bombing you will not live in peace. You will even fear travelling to the market,” said a bearded Arabic-speaking militant, flanked by other fighters. A French government source told Reuters there were 127 dead, 67 in critical condition and 116 wounded. Six attackers blew themselves up and one was shot by police. There may have been an eighth attacker, but this is not confirmed. The attacks, in
STATE OF EMERGENCY
After being whisked from the stadium near the blasts, Hollande declared a national state of emergency, the first since World War Two. Border controls were temporarily reimposed to stop perpetrators escaping. Local sports events were suspended, the rock band U2 cancelled a concert, the Paris metro railway was closed and schools, universities and
newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris in January killed 18 people. Those attacks briefly united France in defence of freedom of speech, with a mass demonstration of more than a million people. But that unity has since broken down, with farright populist Marine Le Pen gaining on both mainstream parties by blaming immigration and Islam for France’s security problems. U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led a global chorus of solidarity with France. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the “despicable attacks” while Pope Francis called the killHIGH ALERT ings “inhuman”. France has been on Italy, Russia, Belgium high alert ever since the at- and Hungary all tightened tacks on the Charlie Hebdo security measures. municipal buildings were ordered to stay shut on Saturday. However some rail and air services were expected to run. Sylvestre, a young man who was at the Stade de France when bombs went off there, said he was saved by his cellphone, which he was holding to his ear when debris hit it. “This is the cell phone that took the hit, it’s what saved me,” he said. “Otherwise my head would have been blown to bits,” he said, showing the phone with its screen smashed. The deadliest attack was on the Bataclan, a popular concert venue where the Californian rock group Eagles of Death Metal was performing.
The gunmen shot their victims in the back, finishing some off at point-blank range before reloading their guns and firing again, Pearce said, after escaping into the street by a stage door, carrying a wounded girl on his shoulder. Toon, a 22-year-old messenger who lives near the Bataclan, was going into the concert hall with two friends at around 10.30 p.m. (2130 GMT) when he saw three young men dressed in black and armed with machine guns. He stayed outside. One of the gunmen began firing into the crowd. “People were falling like dominoes,” he told Reuters. He saw people shot in the leg, shoulder and back, with several lying on the floor, apparently dead. Two explosions were heard near the Stade de France in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis, where the France-Germany soccer match was being played. A witness said one of the detonations blew people into the air outside a McDonald’s restaurant opposite the stadium. In central Paris, shooting erupted in mid-evening outside a Cambodian restaurant in the capital’s 10th district. Eighteen people were killed when a gunman opened fire on Friday night diners sitting at outdoor terraces in the popular Charonne area nearby in the 11th district. The prosecutor mentioned five locations in close proximity where shootings took place around the same time.
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SN demands clarification from security forces
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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): Survival Nagaland (SN) has condemned the action of Indian security forces for raiding the residence of one of its active member on the “pretext of suspicion” on November 12 early morning. Terming the act as “highly objectionable and unjustified,” SN in a press statement on Saturday asserted that its member is a “law abiding citizen” and demanded a clarification
on the context of the raid and arrest the insider for the false information for maligning the image of its active member. “It is very clear that SF had acted immature by taking the account of fabricated information of an informer against its member without analyzing the nature of information and source,” it said. Questioning the security forces to what extend it had authenticated the in-
formation prior to action, SN said if the information received in the form of text, audio, video, image, whatsapp, email etc were found to be source of illegal information, then the IT Act 2002 & IT Amendment Act 2008 section 66A (a,b,c) would stand applicable. Maintaining that it is a non-political social movement against the tremendous influx of unabated illegal immigrants in the state of Nagaland in partic-
ular and India in general, SN said it aims to promote dignity of labour and work culture amongst the young people and most importantly, to “help Government safeguard the nation from dangerous aggression and occupation from another nation.” Hence, security forces raiding the residence of “pressure group” are a thing of highest shame and blessed ignorance, it lamented.
BJP frets over growing dissent against Modi
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NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 14 (REUTERS): Senior leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are growing uneasy about an internal rebellion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership style, which has punctured his aura of invincibility and threatens to weaken him further. While the 65-year-old, who swept to power last year on a wave of optimism over economic reforms, lunched with Queen Elizabeth during a high-profile, three-day visit to Britain, his lieutenants are working to keep a lid on problems at home. One is a revolt among a handful of senior members of his nationalist BJP, the first time allies have openly questioned the direction of a leader who captured power to a degree last seen when Indira Gandhi ruled India with a firm hand.A cabinet minister and two BJP leaders told Reuters they agreed with comments made by party elders earlier this week questioning Modi’s stewardship, after a second straight regional election setback. Tuesday’s statement by four party elders zeroed in on the centralised leadership style of Modi. He has been accused of undermining politicians in his party by acting as chief campaigner in local elections, and bypassing cabinet colleagues by making decisions for them. “It is clear that the unrest is more widespread,” said one BJP leader, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter. “The
problem is Modi has been governing this way for so long, he probably can’t, and won’t change that style.” Doubts around Modi’s leadership raise questions about the viability of his plans to transform the world’s largest democracy into a global power and close the development gap with China.”Modi needs to delegate more responsibility, otherwise there will be more and more problems,” said S. Chandrasekharan, director of the South Asia Analysis Group in New Delhi.
REACHING OUT
BJP sources said the leadership was reaching out to party veterans, including former deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, who publicly demanded that leaders be held responsible for their election defeat in the pivotal and populous state of Bihar. Advani was one of four former ministers to author the strongly-worded statement, indirectly accusing Modi and party President Amit Shah of holding too much power. The BJP has asked those leaders not to embarrass the party further and to discuss the issues in private, the sources said. “It would have been better if these issues were raised in the party forum rather than in public,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday. A central minister acknowledged that Modi needs to listen to more voices to avoid a widening rebellion. “There is a logic in what the elders of the party pointed out,” the minister said.
Also reminding the so called “friends of the hill people” that SN is a movement to safeguard the indigenous people and land from illegal occupation of foreign nationals, the press statement said it should be understood that they (security forces) are not the only one guarding Indian soil. Security forces are “paid soldiers but SN members are armless volunteers,” it added.
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Lotha orgs demand apology from NSCN (R) worker WOKHA, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): In connection to the threat issued to Pankathung Lotha, president, ACVA Wokha district by one Abemo, reportedly a lieutenant of NSCN (R), ACAUT Wokha unit held an emergency meeting at LTC Hall, Wokha Town on Saturday. All Lotha frontal organizations attended the meeting. A press release from ACAUT Wokha unit said the meeting resolved that Abemo, who claim to be a lieutenant of NSCN (R), should tender unconditional apology through the print media within seven (7) days from the date of this publication and also return the extorted amount to ACAUT Wokha unit. It also asked NSCN (R) to authenticate and publish in the print media the identity of Abemo, who claims to be a member of its group. The Lotha frontal organizations further urged upon the Nagaland Police to expedite the arrest warrant as per the FIR filed by the ACVA Wokha district. The release also warned that if the NSCN (R) fails to co-operate with the resolution of the meeting, the Lotha community will indefinitely initiate total non co-operation with the NSCN (R). It added that if any unwanted incident occurs to any of the family members of Pankathung Lotha on the issue, the NSCN (R) shall be held responsible.
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