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Rebel factions clash in Manipur: 10 killed

AFP, Guwahati
At least 10 tribal separatists were killed and several wounded in factional fighting over territory in India's northeastern state of Manipur, a separatist leader said yesterday.
He said two factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland had been locked in a gunbattle since Wednesday near Aijoram village in Manipur's Tamenglong district, about 70km southwest of the state capital Imphal.
One faction is chaired by guerrilla leader S.S. Khaplang and the other is headed by self-exiled leaders Isak ChLshi Swu andThunigaleng Miiivah.
’We have killed 10 cadres belonging to the Isak-Muivah group since fighting broke out Wednesday," Kughalo Mulatonu, a leader of the Khaplang faction, told AFP by telephone from Nagaland's state capita] Kohima.
"Heavy fighting is continuing with both sides using small weapons."
Police in Manipur confirmed the attacks.
"Some confrontation appears to be going on in the area between the two factions. Army columns have moved into the area." Manipur's police chiefJ.C. Dabassaid.
However, an Isak-Muivah faction leader said. "We are not aware of any such attacks in Manipur."
The two rebel factions are both fighting for an independent Naga tribal homeland in the Christian-majority northeastern state of Nagaland and parts of surrounding areas. They have a running feud over territorial supremacy although both have adopted a ceasefire with New Delhi.
Isak and Muivah are currently in New Delhi for peace talks and met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday.
More than 25,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Nagaland since India's independence in 1947.The stale lias a population of two million but an estimated three million Naga tribespeople live in the region.
India resumed talks with the separatists following discussions in Bangkok in October when the two sides said they were committed "to finding an early and mutually satisfactory solution to the Naga issue."
A series of meetings between the two sides have taken place in Europe and Asia since the NSCN agreed to a ceasefire with New Delhi in 1997.
The NSCN's call for a "Greater Nagaland" has met fierce opposition from adjoining states which have Naga populations.