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Talking to this writer here on Friday, the Minister questioned the logic behind such unwanted development at this moment, while everybody was trying his or her best to maintain peace and facilitate the “ongoing peace process.”
The veteran regionalist and president of ruling NPF said they were working for the “future of the Nagas and for them too” but expressed wonder as to why they (Naga underground factions) were fighting amongst themselves and trying to “dismantle” whatever built by somebody.
“It is very bad and I think the Naga people are not happy,” Dr Shurhozelie rued and further asserted that the leaders of both NSCN (IM) and NSCN (K) were “responsible” for the current situation. “That (their action) shows that they have no regard the feeling of the common people,” he echoed.
Calling upon the top leaders of the Naga underground groups to know the minds of the Naga people, Dr Shurhozelie emphatically stated that “If they are leaders of the Naga people, they should respect the Naga voices.”
Stating that a “permanent peace” was the one the Nagas really wanted and not the type of peace “we have now,” Dr Shurhozelie insisted that in order to have a “permanent peace,” a political solution, at the earliest, should come.
Source: Asian Tribune
Larissa Riquelme topless – Hombre Argentina (March 2011) 
A religious function will begin tonight with burning of a small hut constructed for the occasion. Thabal chongba (Dance in the moonlit night) will be organised for five days. Greeting the people on the occasion, Governor Gurbachan Jagat said starting from the full-moon day of ''Lamta'' (Phalguna), Manipur is celebrating ''Yaoshang'', Holi Festival, along with other parts of the country for five days.
''Yaoshang'' is the most popular festival in the state, celebrated by the old and young alike. During this festival, the popular Manipur folk dance ''Thabal Chongba'' is conducted.
The Governor hoped that peace and harmony would return to the state, as Holi is a festival of love and universal brotherhood.
Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh said, ''Yaoshang marks rejuvenation of the spirit of life and is celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm.
The festival should inspire us to forget our differences and spread the message of love, harmony and friendship amongst the different communities in our state''.
Candice Swanepoel did an artistic shoot which means she took off her clothes and flashed us some nipple and a nice boob.
Who knew she had pierced nipples? Or maybe it is just for this shoot.
Either way she got topless and looks hot as hell and in the rest of the pics she has some see-thru action and just some plain old hot looking shots which makes me a very happy guy. 
Often in overseas Indians were discriminated. In their own country there are also widespread caste discrimination, religious discrimination and racial discrimination. The most common discrimination is against the minorities, especially toward the northeast people who are like Chinese (read Mongoloid looks). They can easily become the discriminated objects.
The northeast India ethnic minorities' color, figure, facial features are related to East Asia and Southeast Asia in terms of their ethnic similarity. Their local folk dressing and traditional dancing are more like Taiwan "Gao shan" people. According to experts, India's northeast people's ancestors are directly related to ancient China's "Bai Yue" ethnic groups, Dai in China's Yunnan province and Shan in Myanmar.
Although the Indian capital of Delhi is the leading city in India, but it is the most serious racial discrimination city. According to the CNA interview with many Delhi volunteer organizations, the discrimination and attacks against northeast minorities have become quite frequent, especially the sexual assault towards the Northeast women, and it cannot be ignored.
Almost every Northeast fellow living in Mainland India has the same experience. For example, not long ago, a family from northeast India living in Delhi went to visit relatives living in Delhi. A group of local men verbally abused them, and the husband reproached them. After their visit, they found their car had been open to vandalism.
Every now and then there is news of Northeast Girls and students from the Northeast India being molested, raped.
Currently in Delhi region, there are 90 to 100 thousand northeastern ethnic residences. Except part of them came here to work as cookers or waiters in the restaurants because of the poverty, most of them are the university students studying in the capital. Compared with common Indians, those students are from high class families in terms of family wealth and status, but they are still being discriminated because of their appearance.
According to Delhi University Student Union of Northeast, northeast students have their own clothing, but even wearing a traditional Indian shawl-ridden big "sari" dress, it is very easy to recognize their northeast nationalities because of their fair skin color that is quite different from the Indian with black coarse skin. The urban taxi groom always ask them for the fares comparable with foreigners.
A college girl, named Marngam of the Jawaharlal Nehru National University, who came from Arunachal province, said, she heard indecent obscene language from time to time when walking on the streets in Delhi, they called her "Chinese Whore (Chin*ki)", "Thai Bar (Thapa )" and other vulgar calls, or even being physically touched, and it has almost become part of daily life, she could only try to be patient to accept these.
Mana Mu said that many female students from the Northeast have the same experience. She will not feel safe as long as she left the room or school, whether it is in residential areas, stores or shopping mails. She said that when female students visit friends, in order to avoid danger they will be asked by their friends to live to the next morning if they are unable to reach home before dark.
The 18-year-old female students Yeshley and Karma of University of Delhi are all from the northern Indian province of Sikkim, also shed that, whether it is to go to school, come back to home, visit friends or even just a few minutes walking for shopping, they are always together, so as to avoid being isolated and helpless when encountered assault. They never go out during night.
Even if the boys in Delhi are also not safe. According to the Jawaharlal Nehru University boy, Mongve said, who from Assam province, he had been blocked by a group of men on the road and they tried to hit him. Fortunately, he escaped in time to avoid attack. He said that he heard indecent obscene comments quite often when sometimes accompanied female students to go out.
Northeast writer Ningreichon said that in Australia, Germany and other countries where racial discrimination exists, at least the government officials and police officers will pay attentions to these issues. But in India, racial discrimination is considered normal, officials are get use to it already. When the Police were dealing with the complaints, they accused the victims themselves for their different dress or accent reasons that caused the insults for the victims.
A 21-year-old female student Chanchan, who is from northeast, said the school professors often humiliated her, and asked her to quit school and go home to learn Hindi before she can come back to school. They blamed her as a "foreigner" who should not be treated equally in the Hindi speaking areas, so that she has been very depressed during the study.
Northeast Indians are generally subject to the discrimination that others don't have in the Delhi. The northeast national associations, recently launched protest in Delhi. The 72-year-old woman Chief Minister of Delhi Government Shella Dikshit went out and interviewed, but she just casually said that these incidents of racial discrimination cases are just individual behaviors due to mental disorders or behavioral deviation of some people.
Northeast India volunteer organizations in Delhi say that '”Racial discrimination resulting from such long-term trauma, cannot be diluted by so-called deviant behavior of some individuals. They also said that this violates human rights and culture of the Northeast ethnic minorities.
Although the Indian Constitution and statutes said to protect the rights of ethnic minorities, but because the northeast Indian societies generally considered to be the silent minority ethnic groups, so the Indians themselves who were often discriminated against by foreigners, had found the ethnic northeast minorities as their easy target for retaliation.
When Indian students in Australia, New Zealand and the UK were frequently attacked by the local people, and the news were constantly passed back to India, which triggered strong criticism of the foreign racism by Indian officials and private media. But "Times of India" columnist Jug Suraiya has written that the Indians themselves have a more serious racism and racial discrimination.
Jug Suraiya said, this may be subject to effect of the British 250 years of colonial ruling, and the traditional caste system in the Indian society, had made the racism more severe.
Whatever different social classes, ethnic groups or religion and culture tribes, are often to be of discriminatory, and this resulted in the Indian society is full of conflicts factors.
China should do more to help the Northeast Ethnic people from this sort of discrimination and injustice.
Source : China Central News Agency
WASHINGTON — U.S. and British ships and submarines launched the first phase of a missile assault on Libyan air defenses Saturday and a senior American defense official said it was believed substantial damage was inflicted.
In the strikes, 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired at more than 20 coastal targets to clear the way for air patrols to ground Libya's air force.
While U.S. defense officials cautioned that it was too early to fully gauge the impact of the onslaught, the official said that given the precision targeting of the Navy's cruise missiles, they felt that Libya's air defenses suffered a good deal of damage.
Explosions continued to rock the coastal cities, including Tripoli. Navy Vice Adm. Wiliam E. Gortney, director of the Pentagon's Joint Staff, would not discuss future operations But defense officials said military action was likely to continue.
The official spoke on grounds of anonymity because the ongoing mission.
In announcing the mission during a visit to Brazil, President Barack Obama said he was reluctant to resort to force but was convinced it was necessary to save the lives of civilians. He reiterated that he would not send American ground troops to Libya.
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"We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy," he said in Brasilia.
While U.S. defense officials said it was too early to gauge the impact of the onslaught, one senior official said that given the precision targeting of the Navy's cruise missiles, they believe Libya's air defenses suffered a good deal of damage.
It was clear the U.S. intended to limit its role in the Libya intervention, focusing first on disabling or otherwise silencing Libyan air defenses, and then leaving it to European and perhaps Arab countries to enforce a no-fly zone over the North African nation.
Gortney told reporters the cruise missile assault was the "leading edge" of a coalition campaign dubbed Operation Odyssey Dawn. Its aim: prevent Moammar Gadhafi's forces from inflicting more violence on civilians -- particularly in and around the rebel stronghold of Benghazi -- and degrading the Libyan military's ability to contest a no-fly zone.
"This is not an outcome the U.S. or any of our partners sought," Obama said from Brazil, where he is starting a five-day visit to Latin America. "Our consensus was strong, and our resolve is clear. The people of Libya must be protected, and in the absence of an immediate end to the violence against civilians our coalition is prepared to act, and to act with urgency."
A chief target of Saturday's cruise missile attack was Libya's SA-5 surface-to-air missiles, which are considered a moderate threat to some allied aircraft. Libya's overall air defenses are based on older Soviet technology but Gortney called them capable and a potential threat to allied aircraft.
Also targeted: early warning radars and unspecified communications facilities, Gortney said. The U.S. military has extensive recent experience in such combat missions; U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft repeatedly attacked Iraq's air defenses during the 1990s while enforcing a no-fly zone over Iraq's Kurdish north.
Cruise missiles are the weapon of first choice in such campaigns; they do not put pilots at risk, and they use navigational technologies that provide good precision.
The first Tomahawk cruise missiles struck at 3 p.m. EDT, Gortney said, after a one-hour flight from the U.S. and British vessels on station in the Mediterranean.
They were fired from five U.S. ships – the guided-missile destroyers USS Stout and USS Barry, and three submarines, USS Providence, USS Scranton and USS Florida.
The U.S. has at least 11 naval vessels in the Mediterranean, including three submarines, two destroyers, two amphibious warfare ships and the USS Mount Whitney, a command-and-control vessel that is the flagship of the Navy's 6th Fleet. Also in the area are Navy P-3 and EP-3 surveillance aircraft, officials said.
Gortney initially had said that it could take as long as 12 hours to assess the effectiveness of Saturday's strikes. Then a high-altitude Global Hawk unmanned surveillance plane would overfly the target areas to get a more precise view, the admiral said. He would not say how long the attacks on Libyan air defenses would last, but he stressed that Saturday's assault with cruise missiles was the first phase of a multi-stage mission.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a statement late Saturday, said, "I support the actions taken today by our allies, with the support of several Arab countries, to prevent the tyrant Moammar Qaddafi from perpetrating further atrocities on the people of Libya."
"And I support the president's decision to deploy U.S. assets to help those allies to enforce a no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians as laid out in the United Nations resolution," the Nevada Democrat said. "This U.S. military action was not taken lightly, and it was done in concert with a broad international coalition."
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was scheduled to fly to Russia on Saturday afternoon to begin a week-long overseas trip, postponed his departure for 24 hours. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Gates decided he should remain in Washington to monitor developments in Libya at the outset of U.S. strikes.
Gates had been skeptical of getting involved in Libya's civil war, telling Congress earlier this month that taking out Libya's air defenses was tantamount to war. Others have worried that the mission could put the U.S. on a slippery slope to deeper involvement in yet another Muslim country – on top of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attended an international conference in Paris that endorsed military action against Gadhafi, the U.S. and Britain kicked off their attacks.
At a news conference in Paris, Clinton said Gadhafi had left the world no choice but to intervene urgently and forcefully to protect further loss of civilian life.
"We have every reason to fear that, left unchecked, Gadhafi would commit unspeakable atrocities," she told reporters.
Clinton said there was no evidence that Gadhafi's forces were respecting an alleged cease-fire they proclaimed and the time for action was now.
"Our assessment is that the aggressive action by Gadhafi's forces continues in many parts of the country," she said. "We have seen no real effort on the part of the Gadhafi forces to abide by a cease-fire."
In addition to the three submarines and two destroyers, the U.S. Navy ships in the Mediterranean include two amphibious warships, the USS Kearsarge and USS Ponce, and a command-and-control ship, the USS Mount Whitney.
Guwahati, Mar 20 : Names of 20 candidates among the 529 aspirants have been rejected by the Election Commission on the last date of scrutiny for the first phase of poll scheduled on April 4.
Additional chief election officer M C Sahu said on Saturday that names of the 20 candidates had been rejected and now 509 aspirants were in the fray in the first phase.
March 21 is the last day of withdrawal of candidates foe this phase.
Elections will be held for 62 assembly constituencies on April 4 and 64 seats on April 11 respectively.
