A Decade of Ceasefire in Nagaland

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Gurinder Singh is Research Fellow at IDSA.

Notes

¹ Nagalim in Ao Language means land inhabited by Nagas which includes Naga areas of Manipur. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar.

² Nooral Huda ‘Ceasefire Extension in Manipur’, at http://www.cpim.org (Accessed August 19, 2001).

³ Nagaland Post, November 21, 2006.

⁴ Vivek Chadha, Low Intensity Conflicts in India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp. 301.

⁵ Naga Hoho is the apex tribal council of all Naga tribes. Members of Naga Hoho are invariably nominated by the respective tribe by consensus.

⁶ The Naga conflict dates back to August 14, 1947 when some Naga leaders declared independence ahead of India's independence the next day.

⁷ Sashinungla, ‘Nagaland: Insurgency and Factional Intransigence’, at http://www.satp.org/publicatio/faultlines/volume16/Article4.htm.

⁸ M.S. Prabhakra, ‘The Long-drawn Naga Dialogue’, The Hindu, October, 31, 2006.

⁹ Rajeev Bhattacharya, ‘Ceasefire agreement with NSCN’, Indian Express, New Delhi, August 01, 2006.

¹⁰ Syed Zarir Hussain, ‘Needed, a Roadmap’, Indian Express, New Delhi, October 30, 2006.

¹¹ Bhibhu Prasad Routray, ‘Peace Games’, Institute of Conflict Management, New Delhi September 21, 2001, at http://www.satp.com.

¹² Ibid.

¹³ The author, a serving army officer, was witness to the meeting during a field visit to Nagaland.

¹⁴ Sreeradha Datta, ‘Ethnic Dimension of Northeast Turmoil’, Northeast Complexities and its Determinants, Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2004, p. 2.

¹⁵ A Khel is a group of houses in a Naga village usually belonging to one clan. A village may have three to eight Khels.

¹⁶ Charles Chasie, ‘Nagaland In Transition’, IIC Quarterly, 2005, p. 255.