Dimapur, June 4 (MExN): Naga Youth Organization-Burma is highlighting the repression Nagas in Myanmar have been suffering under the country’ military junta. In October 2010, the Naga Youth Organization-Burma came out with a report titled ‘Life under military rule: Human Rights Violations of Nagas in Burma.’
In the book was highlighted the sufferings and struggle of the Naga people, religious persecution in Naga areas, displacement within Naga areas, violence against Naga women by the Burmese military regime, health care and educational system in the Naga areas and illegal conscriptions and encroachment by the Burmese military regime into Naga areas.
“It is an attempt to bring the Naga experience of the repressive Burmese military regime that has gone unnoticed and unreported during the past 48 years of military rule to the outside world,” stated a communiqué from S. Solomon Theibung, member of the organization. Not all accounts of the various human rights violations perpetrated on the Naga could be fully presented in this report, as there are too many, the organization said, however the report gives an overview of the travails of the Nagas in Burma.
“The primary aim is to inform other ethnic peoples from Burma and the international community of the situation in the Naga areas of Burma.” We reiterate the same. This report does not at all claim to be a comprehensive one on the situation of Nagas in Burma; it is only the tip of the iceberg,” Theibung stated. “There are lot more information /data, which are more serious in nature but could not be documented due to difficulties in movement in the Naga areas. There was also limitation of time. NYO members were under constant surveillance and threat from Burmese military regime.”
Apart from collecting first-hand information of incidence and cases, the organization informed, secondary information was also used, and few other reports and books were referred to supplement the information.
In the book was highlighted the sufferings and struggle of the Naga people, religious persecution in Naga areas, displacement within Naga areas, violence against Naga women by the Burmese military regime, health care and educational system in the Naga areas and illegal conscriptions and encroachment by the Burmese military regime into Naga areas.
“It is an attempt to bring the Naga experience of the repressive Burmese military regime that has gone unnoticed and unreported during the past 48 years of military rule to the outside world,” stated a communiqué from S. Solomon Theibung, member of the organization. Not all accounts of the various human rights violations perpetrated on the Naga could be fully presented in this report, as there are too many, the organization said, however the report gives an overview of the travails of the Nagas in Burma.
“The primary aim is to inform other ethnic peoples from Burma and the international community of the situation in the Naga areas of Burma.” We reiterate the same. This report does not at all claim to be a comprehensive one on the situation of Nagas in Burma; it is only the tip of the iceberg,” Theibung stated. “There are lot more information /data, which are more serious in nature but could not be documented due to difficulties in movement in the Naga areas. There was also limitation of time. NYO members were under constant surveillance and threat from Burmese military regime.”
Apart from collecting first-hand information of incidence and cases, the organization informed, secondary information was also used, and few other reports and books were referred to supplement the information.
