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The Insurgency in Northeast India is the name for the collective insurgencies throughout the "seven sister states" making up Northeastern India.Starting shortly after the British withdrawal from India in 1947, the seven states have been subject to usually violent clashes between the Indian Army with the counterinsurgent and paramilitary Assam Rifles against dozens of secessionist groups.
The Naga conflict, also known as the Naga Insurgency, is an ongoing conflict fought between the ethnic Nagas and the Government of India in North-East India. Nagaland, inhabited by the Nagas, is located at the tri-junction border of India on the West and South, north and Myanmar on the East. Finding its roots in colonial history, this conflict ...
North-East India is India’s most ethnically diversified area. Around 40 million people live there, including 213 of India’s 635 tribal groups. These tribes each have their own distinct culture, each tribal group disagrees with being combined into mainstream India because it means losing their unique identity, giving rise to insurgency.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2018) This is a timeline of the Insurgency in Northeast India, an ongoing armed conflict between the separatist rebels and the Indian government. Timeline of the conflict 2010s 2010 This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (June 2018) 2011 This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (June ...
India and Myanmar share a strategic military relationship due to the overlapping insurgency in Northeast India. [94] [188] India has provided Myanmar's military with training, weapons, and tactical equipment. [189] The two countries' armies have conducted joint operations against insurgents at their border since the 1990s. [190]
The Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh is a part of the larger Northeast India insurgency involving multiple groups trying to separate from or destabilize the province. Because Arunachal Pradesh is a border state, militants sometimes conduct cross border operations to facilitate their activities.
The parallel rise of nationalism in the other states of the Northeast India had further complicated the situation more, resulting in a deadly armed conflict between India and rebel groups thus, creating the insurgency on ethnic lines as a Tribal versus Bengali conflict. The first militant outfit to form was Tripura National Volunteers (TNV). It ...
The NSCN has patronised smaller militant groups in Northeast India, training the groups in warfare and intelligence methods and providing them with logistics for waging war against India. The group has connections to India's Naxalite–Maoist militant groups [ 9 ] and is a member of the UNLFW militant group united front .