China and Naga Rebels
The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) was formed in the early 1980s by Isak Chisi Swu, Thuingaleng Muivah, and S.S. Khaplang in a sign of displeasure with the terms of the Shillong Accord, signed by the then Naga National Council (NNC) with the government of India. Differences later surfaced within the organization over the issue of initiating dialogue with the Indian government. As a result, the NSCN split into two factions in 1988—the NSCN-K in honour of its leader, Khaplang, and the NSCN-IM, led by Isak and Muivah.
The NSCN-IM has a reported strength of around 4,500 fighters and is believed to raise funds primarily through drug trafficking from Burma and by selling weapons and other military equipment to other regional insurgent groups. Nagas live in several states besides their own, Nagaland, and have fought a six-decade insurgency for an autonomous ‘Greater Nagaland’ including parts of Manipur, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh. An estimated 100,000 people have died in violence tied to that conflict. A ceasefire with the government has largely held since 1997, but successive rounds of peace talks have yet to produce lasting results.
Chinese support for Naga rebels isn’t a new phenomenon. Following the 1962 Indo-China conflict, and facilitated by Pakistani intelligence in Dacca, Kughato Sukhai, the self-proclaimed Naga prime minister, wrote to Chinese leaders alleging persecution and oppression by India and called on China to ‘honour and follow their principle of safeguarding and upholding the cause of any suppressed nation of Mongolian stock.’
In November 1966, China covertly trained and procured weapons for a 300-strong contingent of Naga rebels in support of Maoist revolution. The group returned to India in January 1968 and established a camp in the Jotsoma jungles. When Indian forces attacked their haven in June that year, they reportedly recovered Chinese weapons and a trail of documents leading back to Chinese support. China apparently curtailed support for Indian insurgents starting in the late 1980s following Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s 1988 visit to China. However, the Indian military has strongly suspected that Chinese intelligence agencies have in fact been continuing to support Indian rebels covertly, although until recently it had little evidence to prove this.
An Intelligence Windfall
Shimray’s arrest proved to be a windfall for Indian intelligence, which had been pursuing him for years. Indian authorities reportedly caught a break in September 2010 when Shimray’s whereabouts were traced to Bangkok. However, under international law, they couldn’t arrest him until he set foot in Indian territory. A tip came that Shimray would need to travel from Thailand to get his visa renewed and visit his interlocutors in Manipur and Nagaland, but would first have to pass through Nepal. On September 27, Shimray took a Royal Nepal Airlines flight to Kathmandu and made his way across the Indian border into Bihar, where Indian authorities arrested him at a rail station.
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U Li-ar
Stop your bl**dy diversions. We are talking about the rights and justice for the Nagas. Stop turning the issue on its head from one about the Nagas to the Chinese. Bl**dy racialist! Beijing should by right send in its troops like Moscow did when it stopped the Georgians in its track, in Ossetia and Akhazia. Like the Ossetians and Abkhazians, the nagas does not want to be part of India! Einstein my foot!
Mitch Eisenstein
Love the Chinese dont you? Did you know that China has claimed for itself, all of the international waters leading upt to Vietnam and the phillipenes and everythhing in between? We need to invent a time machine to beam the whole of china into the future, in order to leave them all behind.
sabitha
1. Nagaland was never part of India
2. Nagas are not “Indians”, anyone who can see them clearly know their origins are from China (Yunan) regions
3. The concept of “India” itself which is a conglomerate of many different ethnic groups rather than a “national identity or a race” is to be emphasized.
4. Nagas already declared independence 1 day before republic of India did
5. Indians have done mass atrocities on the Nagas.
6. No where in any part of India, Nagas are even given basic treatment as human beings, as they physically appear to be more similar to Chinese than to indo-aryans or dravidians
From an Indian who is fed up with the way Nagas are treated , brutalized, and discarded by the Indian state and the holocaust perpetrated on these Christian tribal people.
Sentinungba Ao
To my misguided sister Sabitha,
Pls come and see the atrocities being committed by the NSCN factions in Nagaland for the last decades. Ever since I remember (for over twenty years) Killing fellow Nagas, raping women, kidnapping for ransom, forced tax collection, extortion, corruption, illegal liquor trade, rampant drugs trade, harassing and looting the poor villagers, beating innocent youth, gun rule and forced recruitment of young boys. Nagaland, a heaven has been turned into hell today by these so called nationalist workers. They are all criminals and drug addicts who are raping our motherland. You want to side with them? What an irony! It seems that it has been a long time since you have been to Nagaland. Alop sharam koribi…tell the truth and dont fall prey to false propoganda of these criminal NSCN dogs.
arun sahgal
It is a known fact that China has been meddling in North East India in particular states of Nagaland, Manipur and adjoining Tirap region. Few years back a major arms consignment was caught in Chitaggong Hill Tract it was so big that it could provide weapons to a whole infantry division.
Reasons are simple undermine India’s Look East policy, usurp India’s growing strategic space in SE Asia and use these leverage’s to gain intelligence in Arunachal Pradesh, territory China claims. No doubt Indian state has to be on guard and extend its influence and cooperation along its strategic periphery to thwart Chinese attempts.
Mitch Eisenstein
Is there a single horrible thing that China doesnt do? Let me count the ways! Toothpaste contaminated intentionally with ethelyne glycol rather than use more expensive food grade propylene glycol. Whats the difference? ethelyne glycol is poisonous antifreeze used in car radiators. Ingesting it will kill you. And yet, somehow, factories in China, knowingly substitute poison for health ingredients, and the government does nothing to stop it. Why? Because the structure of Chinese society is one of DICTATORSHIP. And so innovation and freedom dont percolate into social development. The communist dictatorship has through its pure EVIL intentions, seperated freedom of economics from freedom of thought which leads to emancipation of spirit. The goal is to destroy Capitalism AND Freedom at any cost. So lets see what else the lovely communist despots do in their military owned factories. Oh yes! Intellectual property rights are ignored. The Chinese by definition STEAL every industrial secret they can get their hands on. CD’s, DVD,s all are stolen and reproduced. Airplane parts are counterfeited knowing that the mil specs are ignored and weaker. Cat food was spiked with melamine, a plastic, and a poison that emulates protein so that its easier and cheaper to make cat food to look like it meets western standards. And they put it in formula as well. To give to human infants. A country that is athiest and a dictatorship cannot promote morality, and the result it a lawless, heartless country that will stoop to the lowest level. Gotta make you wonder what you are eating in your neighborhood chinese restaurant. I mean, alot of the ingredients are comming from …..China!!!!! Eat at your own risk! Oh and I forgot the war against UNIONS in china. Funny how a country that exalts the WORKER, hates UNIONS that want to fight for workers rights. And we are just getting started. Chinese Hacker Armies are constantly probing to find out how to penetrate and weaken other countries, technologically and economically. But I cant do all the work for you guys. And american business is also at fault for selling america to chinese communist athiests for a buck. The communism that our Korean War Veterans and Vietnam War Veterans died to protect us from, have been betrayed by the businesses that made us fight those wars to begin with. Why the switch? Because they realized they could make more money by betraying american ideals, than by defending them. We ought to round up the heads of American Companies that have knowingly weakened and subverted these United States, put them on trial for treason, convict them of capitol offenses of undermining the constitution, and in accordance with law and only in accordance with applicable law, punnish them to the maximum allowable extent.
Frank
If China really wants to support India Freedom Fighters, they would do so through Nepal.
Or simply provide surplus weapons to Nepal Maoist which is a legal ruling party in Nepal.
China is upgrading their weapons very quickly. There are millions of surplus weapons in storage.
SIddharth
India is already free. No there’s no point of using the term “Indian freedom fighters”
Call them as rebels and terrorists.
Girish
Does that means China is getting radicalized by his friend Pakistan?? So Chinese now want to be known as Future Terror factory? well why not they have all type of factories in China, so why not a terror factory too..!!