Nagas react to British neglect?

April 29 2012

A Naga International Support Center, NISC A human rights organization

As Prince Andrew comes to Kohima: is he coming to make peace between the Nagas and India while
Nagas react to British neglect?

In a published article in the local newspapers the Naga National Council rightfully reminded Prince Andrew about the neglect of the United Kingdom concerning the right to self determination of the Naga Peoples. Though already in 1929 their leaders told the visiting Simon Commission they wanted to be free when the British were leaving, the British still turned them over to the emerging Union of India even though it knew that it had no control over a large part of the Naga areas. The British kept quiet when the Nagas proclaimed their independent Nagaland in 1947, one day ahead of the Union of India.

The Unadministered Areas as the British called them which were inhabited by the Free Nagas and comprised more than two-third of what was then unified Nagaland (not the present relatively small Nagaland State in India).

Nagas want Reunification

They want their ancestral areas in Myanmar to be reunified with their areas in India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. These states in India were founded long after the Indo-Naga conflict began, the first one being Nagaland which was inaugurated in 1963; nine years after the Indian Armed Forces invaded Nagaland.

The Nagas, still administratively separated in four states, would like Prince Andrew to know about this when he visits Nagaland State when and so through him too the people and politicians of the United Kingdom who bear responsibility; if only in retrospect.

Prince Andrew is scheduled to visit the Kohima Second World War Cemetery to pay his respect to fallen British soldiers but with the acclaimed help of Naga soldiers many more British survived. Nagas want the British to intervene in the Indo-Naga conflict as it should tell India and the Nagas what exactly was transferred to the Union of India without consultation or consent of the Nagas themselves how.

A demonstration on this May ONE labor day will drive these points home; home to the UK.

By publishing this statement on the auspicious Queens Day of the Netherlands where the FREE market draws millions of Dutch, the Naga International Support Center, Amsterdam, reminds Prince Andrew of Britain on the issue of post colonial accountability the Dutch also lacked to follow up on. Not only the Dutch or the British but practical all colonizing nations suffer from this lack of responsibility.