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Nagendra Jamatia, TNV peace accord initiator, passes away
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.
