After Kashmir Loses Flag, Nagas Demand One

“Each and every person must face the naked Indian brutality with courage,” says Syed Ali Geelani. A day after the flag signifying occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was taken down from the Secretariat building in Srinagar, reports on Sunday said Naga separatists holding peace talks with New Delhi were insisting on their separate flag and a separate statute book.

“Less than a month after the Centre ended Jammu and Kashmir special status that allowed it to have its own constitution and a flag, a Naga extremist group has for the first time said a ‘separate flag and constitution’ were necessary for an ‘honorable solution’ to the 22-year-old Naga peace process,”.