UNPO - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY

RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNREPRESENTED NATIONS AND PEOPLES ORGANIZATION

FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Second Session

The Hague, 20-26 January, 1995

General Assembly Resolution-5

RESOLUTION ON THE STRUGGLE OF THE NAGA PEOPLE IN THEIR RESISTANCE AGAINST INVASION

The General assembly,

RECOGNISING the historical sovereignty of the Naga people over their territory, the right of the Naga people to determine their own government, and the illegality of the invasion and continued occupation of Nagaland by the Indian and Myanmar armed forces;

APPALLED that Indian and Myanmari occupation forces have perpetrated ceaseless atrocities on the Naga population, since 1954;

CONCERNED that the Indian and Myanmar governments have prevented international observers, the international human rights community, and the media from witnessing the abuses in Nagaland, thereby preventing them from reporting the situation to the international community;

NOTING that UNPO has been the only international organization which has stood behind the poeple of Nagaland and which has worked to bring about a peaceful political solution;

Therefore,

1. STRONGLY CONDEMNS the Indian and Myanmar governments and their militaries for their invasion and continued occupation of Nagaland, for their rampant violations of human rights of the Naga people.

2. CALLS on India and Myanmar to stop employing military action, and to begin peaceful political negotiations.

3. DEMANDS that India and Myanmar allow international observers, the international human rights community, and the media to investigate the situation in Nagaland.

4. AGREES to send a fact-finding human rights mission to Nagaland at the earliest time possible.

5. VOWS to continue its support for Nagaland and the Naga people.