Naga issue goes to House of Lords
Lords to listen Naga issue on Human Rights Day:
Imphal, Dec 9: Secretary General of the Naga Peoples' Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) Dr Neivetso Venuh will be highlighting the Naga issue at United Kingdom's House of Lords, London commemorating the International Human Rights Day on December 10.
A copy of his speech to be delivered on the ocassion which was made available to NNN said, "Nagas are indigenous peoples, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman stock with an approximate 4 million in population and live along the tri-junction of Burma (Myanmar), China, and India.
From time immemorial, they inhabit the land lying approximately between 92.5 E and 97.5 E longitudes and 23.5 N and 28.5 N latitudes, measuring about 1,20,000 sq kilometers".
Dr N Venuh's speech mentions that in 1832, Captains Francis Jenkins and RB Pemberton, entered the Naga country and led numerous "punitive" expeditions against the Nagas for their resistance which led to open confrontation till 1879 when a large area of the then Naga country was occupied and controlled by the then British-India.
When the British left India in 1947, the stand of the Nagas that they be left as an independent Nation as hitherto enjoyed, was unattended, despite the fact that as early as 1929, the Naga Club submitted a Memorandum to the Simon Commission stating and requesting that they be excluded from the proposed 'political reforms' of British India, which arbitrarily generalized the Nagas as being under India.
The Naga representation clearly stated "We should not be thrust to the mercy of the people who could not subjugate us.
"Leave us alone to determine for ourselves as in ancient times when Britishers first found us" was the expressed will of the Naga people, said Dr Venuh in his speech which will be read out at the House of Lords in London on December 10.
Source: The Sangai Express/Newmai News Network
Posted on: www.e-pao.net
Imphal, Dec 9: Secretary General of the Naga Peoples' Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) Dr Neivetso Venuh will be highlighting the Naga issue at United Kingdom's House of Lords, London commemorating the International Human Rights Day on December 10.
A copy of his speech to be delivered on the ocassion which was made available to NNN said, "Nagas are indigenous peoples, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman stock with an approximate 4 million in population and live along the tri-junction of Burma (Myanmar), China, and India.
From time immemorial, they inhabit the land lying approximately between 92.5 E and 97.5 E longitudes and 23.5 N and 28.5 N latitudes, measuring about 1,20,000 sq kilometers".
Dr N Venuh's speech mentions that in 1832, Captains Francis Jenkins and RB Pemberton, entered the Naga country and led numerous "punitive" expeditions against the Nagas for their resistance which led to open confrontation till 1879 when a large area of the then Naga country was occupied and controlled by the then British-India.
When the British left India in 1947, the stand of the Nagas that they be left as an independent Nation as hitherto enjoyed, was unattended, despite the fact that as early as 1929, the Naga Club submitted a Memorandum to the Simon Commission stating and requesting that they be excluded from the proposed 'political reforms' of British India, which arbitrarily generalized the Nagas as being under India.
The Naga representation clearly stated "We should not be thrust to the mercy of the people who could not subjugate us.
"Leave us alone to determine for ourselves as in ancient times when Britishers first found us" was the expressed will of the Naga people, said Dr Venuh in his speech which will be read out at the House of Lords in London on December 10.
Source: The Sangai Express/Newmai News Network
Posted on: www.e-pao.net