That's all in India. The Nagas in India and the Nagas in Burma have very little to do with one another.Falcon Randwick wrote:One can reasonably assume that the attack inside Myanmar was a direct response to the successful insurgent attack on Indian army forces which occured last week. http://www.tripurainfoway.com/news-deta ... anner.html
This article discusses the "Myanmar angle" http://www.rediff.com/news/column/what- ... 150609.htm Keep in mind that "Nagaland" is spread across parts of Manipur and Naga State in Myanmar.
There have not been many such attacks in recent years, so you can hardly say that they have been fighting for decades, with regard to the Nagaland separatists, when it has been decades between attacks.
Don't confuse this insurgency with the essentially ethnic-based wars which have been plaguing Myanmar for decades. These are essentially funded via wholesale drug manufacture and distribution. One might suspect that the Naga rebels also fund themselves through these means.
Then there's this, "according to the December 3 2014 issue of Eastern Monitor Kohima, 24 per cent salaries of its one lakh employees is being deducted by Naga political groups. Also a shop owner from Chennai, now married in Kohima, said terror groups come and negotiate tax to be paid. In her book War and Taxes, Rakhee Bhattacharya calls it a 'revolutionary tax'. Local sources say annual budget of NSCN-IM is over Rs 10,000 crore." http://www.rediff.com/news/column/what- ... 150609.htm
The problem with the Naga insurgency in India is that, whilst their original aims may have been noble (india refused to give them independence, which is quite ironic given how india bleated about 'freedom' from the British), they've turned into an interest group that simply pushes for their own agenda within India, much like the modern IRA.