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The years 1955 and 1956. Women were not spared by the Indian state in subjugating the Nagas to accept the Indian union. This thread is gruesome but read it until the end for a glimpse of what the Nagas have endured #RepealAFSPA #ViolenceAgainstWomen 
29 July 1956, Atophumi village, 60km from Mokokchung
"A mother who failed to escape eas killed and her one month old child was placed on her bosom to suck the dead mother's milk. One pregnant woman was beaten and kicked to death." #RepealAFSPA
"A mother who failed to escape eas killed and her one month old child was placed on her bosom to suck the dead mother's milk. One pregnant woman was beaten and kicked to death." #RepealAFSPA
"In the month of June 1956, 600 Indian Army went to burn Mangmetong village, 365 houses, and burnt down the whole village. Two girls age 17 and 19 years were caught and committed rape by the whole company." #RepealAFSPA
Village history in Nagaland circa 1956.
27 February 1956, Mima village, 18km from Kohima
27 February 1956, Mima village, 18km from Kohima
17 and 18 March 1956, Chiechama village, 27km from Kohima
18-25 March 1956, Nerhema village, 21km from Kohima
The Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) reiterates that the Oting massacre "is a reminder of the generational trauma that the people of the Northeast, including the Nagas, continue to be subjected to." #RepealAFSPA
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It said that the government of India must repeal the AFSPA immediately and without any prevarication and there should be an impartial inquiry conducted by a sitting judge. #RepealAFSPA
"The guilty army personnel must be tried for premeditated murder in a court of law. Their names and designations should be made public, and the Indian armed forces should dismiss them from service to face the law as common citizens." #RepealAFSPA
The paradoxical tag.
Lost count of the times I’ve been asked how ‘dangerous’ my homeland is. In my initial years of studying outside Nagaland, downplaying this stereotype was a trait I carefully nurtured. I was insanely frustrated and ashamed of the ‘tag’ our state bore. (1/5)
Lost count of the times I’ve been asked how ‘dangerous’ my homeland is. In my initial years of studying outside Nagaland, downplaying this stereotype was a trait I carefully nurtured. I was insanely frustrated and ashamed of the ‘tag’ our state bore. (1/5)
Over the years, I’ve come to realise how insanely naive it was on my part. Coming from a place of privilege, from the comfort of my home, I was disgustingly oblivious to the wider spectrum of the underlying issues taking place. Taking place in my own backyard. (2/5)
Today I am saddened but not ashamed anymore, to acknowledge that, yes, it is indeed a ‘dangerous’ place and one is right to tag it a ‘disturbed area’.
But on what context? That it is a disturbed area to the people of Nagaland. (3/5)
But on what context? That it is a disturbed area to the people of Nagaland. (3/5)
