In Episode 109 [10] of the CounterVortex podcast [11], Bill Weinberg explores the under-reported conflict [12] in India's northeastern state of Nagaland, which has seen a multi-generational pro-independence insurgency. Popular protest is rising there since an army massacre [13] of coal-miners in December. The armed conflict began in 1956, when the Naga National Council declared independence from India in the face of Delhi's intransigence on recognizing local autonomy, and adopted a constitution [14] emphasizing village self-rule [15]. The traditional Naga territory is divided by the border with Burma, which has complicated their self-determination struggle. With Burma now going over the edge into civil war [16], there are growing fears [17] that India's conflicted Northeast [18] could be further enflamed. Listen on SoundCloud [10] or via Patreon [19].
Erratum: The abbreviation for the National Socialist Council of Nagaland is of course NSCN (it is incorrectly rendered in the audio).
Production by Chris Rywalt [21]
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