By the barrel of the gun: little progress has been made toward human rights in northern India.(Commentary)(Column)

Sojourners Magazine | February 1, 2005| | Copyright

From my comfortable home in Illinois, I watched in horror as terrorism struck my homeland. I could not resist saying to my wife, "Wow! Nagaland is on the news." On Oct. 2, 2004, two bombs exploded simultaneously in the Dimapur train station and in a local market. Twenty-eight people were killed and 100 were injured. It is unclear who was responsible for this tragedy, but unfortunately in northeast India there are too many possibilities.

Since 1952, this region, made up of seven states and home to 38 million people, has birthed "at least 15 major insurgent groups and ...

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