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Nagaland and India: The Blood and the Tears Author: Kaka Iralu A Historical Account of the 52 years Indo-Naga war, and the story of those who were never allowed to tell it. Kohima, Sept. 2000, 543 pages. Price: Rupees 300.00/ US $10.	Unheard and concealed to the outside world, one of the longest conflicts in Asia, the Indo-Naga war, has been raging on for the past 52 years, in and around the international boundary between India and Myanmar, where the Nagas live. Presently, a cease-fire and peace talk between the Government of India and the Nagas have been undertaken officially, to resolve the more than half a century conflict. This is also the second cease-fire, the first being in 1964-1972. Has anyone told you that because of this war almost every Naga villages of the present four states of India, viz., Assam, Manipur, Arunachal, Pradesh, Nagaland, have suffered where homes were burnt along with their granaries between 1954-1957? Can you know or feel about the horror stories of genocidal adventures, where more than one Lac Naga population has been exterminated by Indian military actions, and resulting repercussion leading to deaths by starvation and diseases as innocent villagers fled into the jungles in fear? Has anyone told you about the heroic stories of the many thousands of Naga gallant soldiers, who continue to wage a guerilla war for over half a century against overwhelming odds? Or, lay soldiers marching across international boundaries into Burma, Pakistan and China to procure arms and training to defend a cause a nation knew was right, near and dear. Many of them smeared the soils of these foreign lands red with their life's blood never deeming their sacrifice too great for Nagaland.
On the other hand, thousands of Indian soldiers and civil administrators lie fallen in killing fields of Nagaland as they sought to carry out their duties as ordered by their government. Thousands of Millions of rupees have been expended to finance a meticulous war of liquidation of the Nagas. Does anyone in India bothers to know 'the why' and 'the how' of this colossal loss of human lives and financial resources, over a drama that should never have been fought in the first place. Beyond the politics and propaganda of the day, there is the account of many tens of thousand of lives lost to the thick jungle in the theatre of human tragedy, always untold and always repressed. Basing on personal interviews of thousand of victims, across different arenas of perpetuation across the land, mixed with how daily living continues for the many living over their many dead relatives, Nagaland and India: The Blood and the Tears outlines gory and undying passionate tales of many oral narration. The book provides a comprehensive detail on the other side of the story of the Indo-Naga war, the human story.
Kaka Iralu, Nagaland and India: The Blood and the Tears: A Historical Account of the 52 years Indo-Naga war, and the story of those who were never allowed to tell it, Kohima, Sept. 2000, 543 pages. Price: Rupees 300.00/ US $10.