India's Modi signs historic peace pact with key rebel group in India's remote northeast
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India's government has signed a historic peace treaty with the leader of a key rebel group in India's insurgency-wracked northeast.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the accord in New Delhi on Monday with Thuingaleng Muivah, the leader of the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland. It ends a rebellion that festered in India's Nagaland and Manipur states for more than six decades.
The two leaders gave no specific details about the accord.
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The rebel group was fighting for an independent homeland for the Naga tribes. It is the oldest and strongest of the nearly 30-odd rebel armies operating in the northeast since India's independence in 1947.
The group entered a cease-fire in 1997 but in nearly 18 years no formal peace deal could be agreed upon.