The civil bodies of Dima Hasao in Assam held a silent rally in November last year to demand the details of the Naga Accord are made public. A few impressions from the rally and the politics behind it.
I am about to leave Haflong. But the apex civil bodies of Dima Hasao district (NC Hills) in Assam are about to start a silent rally; so I stay. Nobojit, a local Dimasa youth, picks me up on his scooty and takes me to Lal Field in the centre of Haflong town—‘We are not against the Naga people, but we don’t want to lose our land…’ Someone is speaking over a loudspeaker. Rich yellow, red, green of the Dimasa traditional weaves are on women’s drapes and men’s scarves. There are sarees, phaneks, mekhala-chador, shirts, jackets. On a sunburnt autumn morning, every other person has a placard—a cardboard piece pitched on a vertically split bamboo stick.
No land to Nagalim.
Peace is all we want.
We want togetherness not separation.
My land is my birth right.
A larger banner appears and civil society leaders, a lone woman leader in their ranks, take form behind it—Protest Rally against ‘Inclusion of Dima Hasao District in NSCN (IM)’s Greater Nagalim Demand;’ Organized by All Apex Bodies Co-ordination Committee, Dima Hasao.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Eclectic Northeast.
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