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| 14 al-Qaeda branches sent up in Northeast India |
| 2006-01-17 |
| The North East Students' Organization has claimed that the Al-Qaeda, have set up more than 'fourteen branches in the North East India' with the support of the Pakistan intelligence agency, the Inter Service Intelligence. The NESO in its memorandum to all the seven states Governor in the region urged to take it as a 'serious matter' with the United Progressive Alliance government so as to take measures to curb their illegal activities that may disturb the tranquility of the region and its indigenous people. The NESO an all the students' body of the region, reiterated its demand to the centre for expediting all ongoing political negotiations with different armed groups and to work out a time frame for an early and permanent solution for bringing peace in the North Eastern Region. More than a dozen of armed groups in the region are fighting for a 'sovereign state or homeland' with the support of the ISI in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Demanding a special constitutional status for the North East region, "like in the case of Jammu and Kashmir," the NESO in its memorandum stated "The north eastern region is a microscopic minority in terms of ethnicity, religion. Language. and such we need special protection". Welcoming the 'Look East Policy' of the central government, the NESO urged the UPA government not to set up an administrative center in Kolkata. "The road map of the 'Look East policy' be made transparent and beneficial to the people of north east", the memo stated. Extending its support to the Khasi Students' Union in its opposition to Uranium mining in Meghalaya due to "well-known-ill-effects" that such mining could bring about to the land and its people, the NESO demanded from the centre to immediately stop this dangerous and hazardous project for the protection and well-being of the environment and the indigenous people whose only source of livelihood is through the land and its resources. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |