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...eight years Naga nationalists fought an inconclusive war with their Indian masters before agreeing to a cease-fire in 1964. That uneasy truce has recently been renewed for shorter periods. The current cease-fire expires on Oct. 1, and this time, thanks to the new factor of Chinese support, there may be no extension...
...Hills. Despite the quiet on the central Himalayan front, India has good reason to believe that Peking is attempting an end run on India's defenses in the Naga Hills at the eastern end of the border. The Naga tribesmen who live there have been demanding their own nation for 21 years and are thus receptive to arms, aid and instruction in guerrilla warfare. Mao Tse-tung, true to his own policy of supporting "wars of national liberation," has lately taken to supplying the arts and tools of subversion to the Nagas...
More than 1,000 Nagas are known to have trekked 300 miles through Burma to China's Yunnan province for arms, indoctrination and training. Another 1,000 have been intercepted by Indian troops and turned back. Friendly Nagas in Burma sometimes aid the would-be rebels in traveling to China, but others have beheaded at least three Naga rebels and presented their severed heads to Indian officials as signs of good will. Some 300 China-trained Nagas have already returned to Nagaland, and the rest are due to infiltrate back by November...
India has always felt somewhat guilty about its Naga war, especially since Gandhi himself had promised the hill people independence if they wanted it. Last year Nehru gave in to the extent of creating Nagaland state, with its capital at Kohima. In February, a Baptist convention proposed that a three-man committee consisting of two Indians and Britain's champion of the underdog, the Rev. Michael Scott, explore the prospects of talks with the rebels. The Naga leader, Angami Zapu Phizo, who is known to his followers as "The One," and who lives in exile in London, was promised...
...Delhi last week the Indian government confirmed that the Naga armistice will begin on July 26. During that period the Indian government will suspend military operations, reconnaissance flights, imposition of fines on villages that misbehave, and restrict patrolling to a thousand yards from the perimeters of army defense posts. For their part, the Naga rebels will suspend ambushes, sniping, kidnaping of hostages and attacking army posts and administrative centers...