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News:

Nagendra Jamatia, Tripura National Volunteers peace accord initiator passed away.

Facts:

Nagendra Jamatia, the veteran tribal leader brokered peace with insurgent outfit Tripura National Volunteers in 1988.
He was known for his effort to bring leader of Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura to the negotiating table with center.

About Tripura National Volunteers

The TNV was founded in 1978 with assistance from the Mizo National Front.
Tripura National Volunteers (also Tribal National Volunteers or Tripura National Volunteer Force) was a Tripuri nationalist militant group that launched an armed struggle in the early 1980s to separate Tripura from India.
TNV surrendered in 1988 and integrated themselves into a political party.
In 2000 TNV merged into the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura.
TNV was led by Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl.