Northeast India in Crisis!!!
August 28 2012
Denial of rights of Indigenous Peoples in Northeast India is the root cause behind the recent violent clashes and has led to fundamental disunity
The influx of illegal immigrants, which has led building tension, has either been ignored, denied and/or orchestrated by the responsible local and national Governments. These authorities are accountable for the creation of conflicts which led to disaster.
"We have nothing against anybody's religion but we cannot tolerate illegal settlers who are encroaching on our land and resources," said Joel Kath of the Naga Council, whose group has said it will identify the "illegal Bangladeshis" and push them out of Nagaland.
Before but certainly after the clashes between the Boros of Assam and illegal immigrants people of the Northeast in mainland India were threatened and became targeted; as a result thousands fled cities like Pune and Bangalore. Indians of the Northeast who work and travel has became dangerous strangers. In their homeland they are treated like third class citizens; they loose their land to newcomers from other states of India and to immigrants from neighboring countries: Nepal, Burma and Bangladesh.
Marginalized for decades Indigenous Peoples like the Boros, Garos, Khasis, Nagas and many others do not tolerate this abuse any longer; they stand up to demand eviction of encroachers regardless of where they came from; they hold all those in power accountable.
The Naga International Support Center appeals to the Government of India
to recognize and uphold the rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast
- to do justice to the Peoples of the Northeast in accordance to the laws of the land
- to instruct the 7 State Governments to do justice to the Indigenous Peoples
- to protect its Indigenous people in the Northeast and in mainland, India
- to finally stop and manage encroachment of outsiders on Indigenous peoples lands
- to defuse the tension and to address the issue
For more information visit www.nagalim.nl or write to [email protected]
NISC
A Naga International Support Center,
A human rights organization
* This info was sent by Frans Welman who can be contacted at fimapur(at)yahoo(dot)com
This Press Release was posted on August 27, 2012.
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