Few days ago Indian army killed some Naga people, some where around dozen of them I think. It is said that the army was combing to find some terrorists, they tried to stop a vehicle that they want to inspect, when it did not stop, it was fired upon, and about a dozen got killed.

I think just a day after that, India’s Chief of Defense Staff, his name was Bipin Rawat, climbed into an helicopter, was going via Kodai-kaanal (a place where there is no summer) to a army training base, when his helicopter seems to have been stopped by a jack fruit tree. The helicopter tried to push ahead, but it fell down, and all the people in it was fired upon by laws of physics. I think 14 died.

The thing here is the 14 army people were honored with gun salutes and were honored like national hero’s and were cremated, buried etc, but I think the dozen or so Nagas were not announced that they too are hero’s who lost their lives in India’s fight against terrorism.

For some reason civilians who died in Taj Hotel attacks by Pakistani terrorist are considered heroes, but not the Nagas. News showed the crying children of Indian army people, but we do not even know if the Nagas who died had a family. We do not know if they had a good life before death, and we won’t know if their loved ones will have a decent life in the future.

I think a Nagas life is worth just 5 Lakhs. May be in the future we will have advertisement in papers where if one pays Rs 5 Lakhs (it could be more due to high inflation), one could kill a Naga as trophy.

Has the government not treated Nagas like they treated Bipin Rawat? Or is the media is not covering the honored death of Nagas with 21 gun salute, where the president and prime minister visited and performed last rites? I don’t know.