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Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2013 This page intentionally left blank Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2013 Transitions Editors D. Suba Chandran P. R. Chari LONDON NEW YORK NEW DELHI First published 2014 in India by Routledge 912 Tolstoy House, 15–17 Tolstoy Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Typeset by Solution Graphics A–14, Indira Puri, Loni Road Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201 102 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-138-79606-5 Contents Tables and Figures vii Abbreviations viii Preface xiii Part I 1. Introduction: Review of Armed Conflicts in South Asia in 2012 3 P. R. Chari 2. Afghanistan in Transition: Security and Political Developments in 2012 21 Mariam Safi 3. Northeast India: Politics of Conflict, Ethnic Contestations and Peace Processes 48 Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman 4. Myanmar 2012: The Bad Old Still Looms Over the New? 69 Bibhu Prasad Routray 5. Naxal Conflict 2012: Naxal Violence in Hibernation 99 Deepak Kumar Nayak Part II: Peace audIt 6. Peace Audit of Nepal: 2012 125 Nishchal N. Pandey 7. Sri Lanka: Negative Peace Exists, at least 139 N. Manoharan 8. Jammu and Kashmir Peace Audit 2012: A Need to Focus on the Internal Dimension 159 Ashok Bhan vi N Contents 9. Northeast India: A Peace Audit 190 Wasbir Hussain 10. The Naga Peace Process: An Audit 212 Madhumita Das About the Editors 235 Notes on Contributors 237 Index 241 Tables and Figures Tables 4.1 Ceasefire Agreements between the Government and the Ethnic Insurgencies 90 5.1 State-wise Left Wing Extremist Violence 102 5.2 State-wise Statistics of Naxal Violence of various Indices 103 5.3 Incidents of Economic Targets by LWE all over the country 104 8.1 Some Indices of Reduction in Terrorist Violence in Jammu and Kashmir 161 8.2 Hartal Calls by Separatists, Border Firing Incidents by Pakistan, Infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir and Terrorists killed 163 Figures 2.1 Annual Report of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan 26 9.1 Number of Fatalities in Insurgency-related Violence in Northeast India, 1992–2012 201 Abbreviations AANLA All Adivasi National Liberation Army AASU All Assam Students Union ABSU All Bodo Students Union ACMF Adivasi Cobra Militant Force AFSPA Armed Forces Special Powers Act AGP Asom Gana Parishad AJYCP Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad ALA Arakan Liberation Army ALP Arakan Liberation Party AMLA Achik Matgrik Liberation Army ANA Afghan National Army ANP Afghan National Police ANP Awami National Party ANSF Afghan National Security Forces ANVC Achik National Volunteer Council APA Adivasi People’s Army APRC All Party Representative Committee APRP Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme ASDC Autonomous State Demand Council ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASS Asom Sahitya Sabha ATTF All Tripura Tiger Force BAC Bodoland Autonomous Council BCP Burmese Communist Party BGF Border Guard Force BJP Bharatiya Janata Party BLT Bodo Liberation Tigers BNLF Bru National Liberation Front BNP Bangladesh National Party BPF Bodoland People’s Front BSF Border Security Force BSS Bodo Sahitya Sabha BTC Bodoland Territorial Council CBMs Confidence building measures CFA Ceasefire Agreement Abbreviations N ix CFMG Ceasefire Monitoring Group CIA Central Intelligence Agency CNA Chin National Army CNF Chin National Front CPA Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPB Communist Party of Burma CPI-M Communist Party of India-Marxist CPN (UML) Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist- Leninist) CSAS Centre for South Asian Studies DHD Dima Halam Daogah DHD-J Dima Halam Daogah-Jewel DHD-N Dima Halam Daogah-Nunisa DMO Directorate of Military Operations DKBA Democratic Karen Buddhist Army DAN Democratic Alliance of Nagaland DPC Difa-e-Pakistan Council EU European Union FATA Federally Administered Tribal Areas FCR Frontier Crimes Regulation FNR Forum for Naga Reconciliation FTA Free Trade Area GIRoA Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan GSU Garo Students Union HALC Hynniewtrep Achik Liberation Council HIG Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin HNLC Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council HPC Hmar Peoples Convention HPC-D Hmar Peoples Convention-Democracy HTF Hill Tiger’s Force ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross IDP Internally Displaced Person IMK Ittehad-e-Mujahedeen-e-Khurasan INC Indian National Congress IRIIS Institute for Research on India and International Studies ISAF International Security Assistance Force ISI Inter Services Intelligence ISPR Inter Services Public Relations
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