{"id":152379,"date":"2021-12-10T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=152379"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:07:17","slug":"nagalands-people-deserve-neither-afspa-nor-gun-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nagalands-people-deserve-neither-afspa-nor-gun-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagaland\u2019s people deserve neither AFSPA nor gun culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The death of innocent civilians by security officers in Nagaland caused outrage of repealing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).<\/p>\n<h5><span id=\"What_is_AFSPA_Why_controversies_surrounding_it\"><strong>What is AFSPA? What are the challenges associated with it?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/afspa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All about AFSPA<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Regional Disparity of AFSPA<\/strong>: There is also a question that why AFSPA is only applicable to North-East states and J&amp;K alone when other Indian states also face instances of internal rebellion like left-wing extremism. The reason behind this is NE and J&amp;K is still considered \u201calien\u201d to the nation because of racial and cultural dissimilarities.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/repealing-afspa-will-not-weaken-only-strengthen-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Repealing AFSPA will not weaken, only strengthen Constitution<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>What are the various groups in Nagaland, and how do they proceed?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs)<\/strong>: They are Nagaland-based groups and speak exclusively for Nagaland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSCN (IM)<\/strong>: The majority of their cadres belong to Nagas from Manipur. In the past, they mercilessly gunned down rival factions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nagaland Gaon Bura Association: <\/strong>It is the apex body of Nagas, which includes all the 16 recognized tribes and the NNPGs. It barred the NSCN (IM) from its group.<\/p>\n<p>The NNPGs and the Gaon Bura Association of Nagaland doubt NSCN(IM)\u2019s ability to bring lasting peace in Nagaland.<\/p>\n<p>Further, their representatives do not demand a separate flag or constitution or sovereignty. They also understand that Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh will not be reorganized. So, the group petitioned several requests to PM and Home Minister to solve the issues through peaceful means.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nagaland-killings-should-prompt-a-broad-rethink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nagaland killings should prompt a broad rethink<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>What is the present situation?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The <strong>Free movement regime (FMR) <\/strong>between India and Myanmar across the 1,643 km border allows movement up to 16 KM inside each other&#8217;s territory for trade and commerce. This is misused by militants to smuggle drugs and arms.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the People of Nagaland feel being held hostage by the Center and NSCN(IM). The incidents of misuse of AFSPA alienate people from the center.<\/p>\n<h5>What should the government do?<\/h5>\n<p>To bring stability in Nagaland, the government should work on these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Further, To strengthen the nation-building process, the government should think of repealing the AFSPA to bring stability to the J&amp;K and NE region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Nagaland\u2019s people deserve neither AFSPA nor gun culture&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0<strong>Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>10th December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The death of innocent civilians by security officers in Nagaland caused outrage of repealing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). What is AFSPA? What are the challenges associated with it? Read here:\u00a0All about AFSPA Regional Disparity of AFSPA: There is also a question that why AFSPA is only applicable to North-East states and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nagalands-people-deserve-neither-afspa-nor-gun-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nagaland\u2019s people deserve neither AFSPA nor gun culture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-152379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704746071},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}