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Dimapur, Aug. 7: “Nagalim” may still be their primary objective, but global warming and its cures are NSCN’s current obsession with militants trading their guns for spades to launch a plantation drive.
The Isak-Muivah faction of the outfit today took up the green drive, to be carried out by all the “brigades”, “battalions” and “units” of the “Naga army”.
The outfit also banned fel-ling throughout Naga-inhabited areas saying it will consider random felling of trees a “cri-me against natural laws”. An NSCN leader said “global warming has reached alarming proportions and is now affecting Naga people too”.
The ban on felling was announced by the “ministry of forest, environment and minerals” of the Government of People’s Republic of Nagalim.
The outfit also strongly warned of stringent action against anyone found flouting the ban. It has also banned all “unauthorised” collection of taxes on forest products by any group or organisation.
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