Eastern Nagaland autonomy demand
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Frontier Nagaland Party / Nagaland Post · India · Myanmar's civil war spills into India's Northeast: refugees, insurgent alliances and drug money
Reports the June 11 Assam-Nagaland oil MoU on shared petroleum rights in Nazira-Sibasagar fields, and the Frontier Nagaland Party's angry reaction: Eastern Nagaland tribes view any MoU between Assam and the Nagaland government as a pre-emption of their autonomy demand for a separate state (Frontier Nagaland Territory); six Eastern districts are in a boycott mode since the 2023 elections.
“Assam and Nagaland signed an oil MoU on June 11; the Frontier Nagaland Party condemned it as a pre-emption of Eastern Nagaland's autonomy demand.”