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The Government of India banned the ULFA in 1990 and classifies it as a terrorist group, while the US State Department lists it under "other groups of concern". Founded at Rang Ghar , a historic structure dating to the Ahom kingdom on April 7, 1979, the ULFA has been the subject of military operations by the Indian Army since 1990, which have ...
[24] [26] An incident in Champhai recounts Indian security forces grouping the men and women separately into schools and churches. Men would be tortured for links to the Mizo National Front while women were sexually assaulted, sometimes in public view. Some officials would hold the women back for weeks with them as an extension. [37]
Human rights issues in northeast India have been widely reported in the press and by human rights activists. [1] [2] Northeast India refers to the north-easternmost region of India consisting of the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura, as well as parts of northern West Bengal (districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Koch Bihar).
The Insurgency in Northeast India is the name for the collective insurgencies throughout the "seven sister states" making up Northeastern India.Starting shortly after the British withdrawal from India in 1947, the seven states have been subject to usually violent clashes between the Indian Army with the counterinsurgent and paramilitary Assam Rifles against dozens of secessionist groups.
Manipur is a state in northeast India, bordering Myanmar to its east and south. The Imphal Valley constitutes about 10% of the geographical area of the state with 57% of the population, [ 65 ] predominantly Meitei , who are majority Hindus, with minorities of Muslims and native Sanamahism followers. [ 66 ]
The government aims to increase India’s hydro power by half by 2030, to 70,000 megawatts, and has approved hundreds of new dams across the country's mountainous north.
The Government of India celebrated the year 2007 as the 150th anniversary of "India's First War of Independence". Several books written by Indian authors were released in the anniversary year including Amresh Mishra's "War of Civilizations", a controversial history of the Rebellion of 1857, and "Recalcitrance" by Anurag Kumar, one of the few ...
ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured in new images strolling around New Orleans a little over an hour before he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating the New Year on Bourbon ...