What is more alarming is the Union Government of India’s (GoI) inability to control the situation, the magnitude of the crisis, and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s silence on the Manipur violence, which has raised numerous questions about whether the GoI is directly or indirectly involved in the crisis by taking sides.
By Augustine R.
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From the perspective of opportunities, the line on the opinion expressed by Nagaland citizens and others on various social communication platforms to “high-handed repressive action” by security/state forces.
By Augustine R.
View More The Good, the Bad and the Ugly during the G20 Business Meet in Kohima
The Indo-Naga conflict resolution approach has undoubtedly become one of the most mishandled approaches to conflict resolution sixty years after the first shots were fired between India and the Naga people. Understanding Germany Consul-General Manfred Auster’s remarks at the G20 Business Meeting in Kohima – on the Indo-Naga political conflict.
By Augustine R.
View More Understanding Manfred Auster’s remarks at the G20 Business Meeting in Kohima – on the Indo-Naga political conflict
Now the RSS and the BJP are rewriting our history. They are telling us who we are and who we must become. You don’t need me to tell you that their version of the Naga story is wrong; it is utter nonsense. We must fight intelligently and with evidence. To say that the missionaries instigated the Nagas to fight for independence is an insult to our civilization. It ignores the passion for freedom and self-rule that defined the very being and humanity of our ancestors.
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A border, at its most basic, is a line that separates us from them. In other words, borders are political boundaries. Nonetheless, despite numerous tactics and pressures on the Naga people based on the imposed political boundary in the Naga homeland, the Nagas have not failed to assist and work together on various situations/events, and they have continued to stand as ‘One People, One Nation,’ writes Augustine R.
By Augustine R.
View More Borders do more than keep people out; they define the line, but the Nagas continue to stand as ‘One People, One Nation’
Despite India’s and Myanmar’s attempts to delegitimize the Naga National Movement by conducting state-imposed elections in various Naga regions, the Nagas’ recent continuous call for international/third-party intervention in the conflict between India, Myanmar, and the Naga people reveals areas of opportunity where international/third-party efforts could influence a peaceful peaceful resolution to the more than seven-decade-long conflict, writes Augustine R.
By Augustine R.
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It is extremely serious, and this set of February 24, 2023 events is different from previous ones in part because it is occurring on two fronts at the same time: India imposed election campaigned by India’s Prime Minister Modi in Dimapur, Nagaland, and the Naga student body calling for third-party international and United Nations (UN) mediation in resolving the more than seven decades conflict between India and the Naga people, writes Augustine R.
By Augustine R.
View More India’s Prime Minister Modi campaigned in Nagaland, and the Naga student body has called for international intervention – what does this mean?
While far-right parties have been present in Europe for some time, liberal democratic parties still do not know how to respond to their presence. Of even more concern is their deep political entanglement with liberal democratic political parties, which renders the whole story even more complex, writes Christin Tonne.
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