ABSTRACT
The Indian northeast, geographically, is located in a remote and very isolated part of South Asia. It is located in the extreme peripheral parts of the subcontinent, in the eastern sector of the Himalayas. After the 1962 war with India relations between the Indians and Chinese have remained problematic. Proliferation of small arms has gradually increased in the Indian subcontinent fuelled by a host of factors including spread of low intensity conflicts. The conflict in Nagaland is often regarded as one of the oldest conflicts in post-independent India. In Manipur there are a couple of very prominent human rights activists who have protested against the violence caused by the Indian Army in Manipur. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act applies to the Indian northeast. Security personnel have been given extraordinary powers to deal with the emergency situation in India’s disturbed borderlands, which have witnessed high degrees of militancy and political violence for decades.
