India signs peace accord with militant tribal separatists


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  • Monday, 03 Aug 2015

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India signed a peace agreement on Monday with a leading tribal separatist group in the country's remote northeast that had waged guerrilla war for six decades against central rule from New Delhi.

Officials from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government signed the accord with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), one of several separatist groups active in the remote and underdeveloped northeastern region bordering China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

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