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Manipur state opens a rehabilitation camp for former rebels this week | Manipur government opened a rehabilitation camp for
former rebels this week. The camp is part of Government's efforts to enable the
surrendered militants to join mainstream by ensuring their rehabilitation in the
State. Opened at Koubru in Senapati district on Friday (Nov. 27), it is the first
of the designated camps for the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) outfit to surrender
their arms and maintain Suspension of Operations (SoO). The camp is equipped with
a hospital, church, canteen, guesthouse, five barracks, a playground and an armoury.
A Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) has so far approved 2,000 cadres to be rehabilitated,
out of which 188 are cadres of KNF. The camp is among the 22 to be set up at five
locations as per a tripartite agreement signed between the central and State governments
and Kuki tribal groups. The State government has sanctioned around 4.5 million
rupees for the construction of such designated camps for surrendered rebels under
SoO. The Central and State government had signed an agreement for stopping
counter-insurgency
operations against Kuki militants in the state (Suspension of Operations) on August
22, 2008. The ceasefire has been extended for another year i.e. upto August 2010.
"It is open to any group which agrees to the Suspension of its Operations. Similarly
when the other groups are there if any accepted the fact that (they) are going
to get themselves inside the camp, there is no point in (their) moving in populated
areas," said Brigadier Anil Chauhan of the Indian army, who inaugurated the camp.
India 's northeast is home to more than 200 tribes and ethnic groups and is racked
by separatist insurgencies. In Manipur alone, more than half-a-dozen guerrilla
groups are fighting more than 50,000 troops, some battling for freedom and others
for political autonomy. The conflict has left more than 20,000 people dead. |
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