Of all NGO activists dealing with Indian tribals or minorities susceptible to separatism, I have never heard or seen one defend the Indian viewpoint. Organizations like India-Werkgroep Vlaanderen and India-Werkgroep Nederland, not to speak of the India cells of the World Council of Churches, generally support every possible source of subversion and separatism in India. Thus, Wilco Brinkman, writing of Manipur (“Manipur, een mini-staat”, India Nu, bimonthly of the India-Werkgroep Nederland, Utrecht, Jan. 1997), speaks of an “Indian invasion”, of “Indian colonial oppression” and about rice being
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