RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

As far as the Nagas are concerned, Indian culture means Hindu culture and Indianization equally means Hindunization. In the process of Indianization of the Nagas, Nagalim has been bombarded with forcible introduction of Hindu culture in every imaginable way. Indian armed forces, Indian currencies, mock state legislature, social and educational institutions, television and radio programs, Indian bureaucrats and business houses, all are in array to confront the Christian faith and indigenous culture of the Nagas. Naga churches have been orphaned through the expulsion of foreign missionaries. Christian missionaries to the Konyak Nagas in the so-called Arunachal State have been murdered and there are prohibitory orders for their entry and propagation of Christian Gospel in the said area. Introduction of "Freedom of Religion Bill, 1978" (that prohibits the propagation of Christianity) in the Indian Parliament is not a thing of the past. Christian Nagas! are made to live in constant fear and suspicion. The same ugly religious persecution is being practiced to the extreme by the Burmese in the eastern part of Nagalim. Here Christian Nagas are being converted into Buddhism through military threat.