An Overlooked Insurgency Reviewed work(s): Source: Asian Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 5/6 (May - Aug., 1982), pp.

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servethe real needs of US-Japanese cooperation. Inoki Masamichi, Presidentof the ResearchInstitute for Peace and Security,opposes the attemptat revisionbecause "it will cause confusion politically and socially like the turmoil during the treatyrevisionof 1960."

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Quang said that while he still considered it "right" that they should have protested against the Deim regime, he now believesthat silence best serves the purposes of Buddhism. Earlier, bonzes who spoke out against the Communists were carted off to the socalled "reeducation" camps-and have not been seen since. Some have fled the country. A few have been released in the past two years. Some of the monks, like Quang's mentor in North Vietnam, have become collaborators of the Communist government.

VIETNAMESE BUDDHISM REVISITED

VISITORS TO SAIGON have been

able to talk clandestinely with membersof the An Quangpagoda, the Buddhistmonks who played a leading role in the overthrow of PresidentNgo Dinh Diem and had significant influence on the successive regimes that followed in South Vietnam. Their leader Thich Tri Quang, the firebrandwho led the agitationagainstDiem, is under house arrest,and many monks have beenshippedoff to fight againstthe Cambodian guerrillas. Evangelism of the faith is no longer permitted. And since 1975, they have not been allowedto take in new novices. In the countryside,lands belonging to the pagodas have been confiscated. Movement from one pagoda to anotherrequiresofficial permission.And in some cases, the traditional offerings of food by villagersare prohibited.(Monks in Saigon, however,are still permitted to receivefood.) In a conversationwith a visitor, one of the formerspokesmen An for

AN OVERLOOKED INSURGENCY
WHEN NEGOTIATIONS broke

down between the Mizo National Front and the governmentin New Delhi in January, the expectation was that fighting would flare up again between Mizo tribesmenand Indian government forces in the mountainousjungles at the eastern end of the Subcontinent. The governmenthad cracked down by arresting a large group of rebels, and claimedanother 100 or so had surrenderedto Indian forces. The rebels frequently carried out hitand-run raids across the Burmese border,and New Delhi hopes it has worked out an agreementwith the to Rangoongovernment deprivethe rebelsof sanctuaryin that country.

306 But the Mizo nationalists now in have a headquarters Bangladesh. Since the death of President Mujibhir Rahman in 1975, New Delhi
has not been able to secure Bangladeshi cooperation against the rebels. Dacca's diplomats deny any knowledge of rebel activities inside their country. But it is clear to New Delhi that the Dacca regime has neither the will nor the ability to crack down on a small insurgent group in a remote part of the country. The Mizos are made up of several indigenous tribes in the area between Bangladesh and the Burmese border. They speak a variety of Tibeto-Burman dialects. Many, like their neighbors the Nagas further north, have been Christianized by missionary groups and are highly

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literate. Their complaints against the Indian central government go back to 1959, when they began to agitate for greater attention from New Delhi. In 1966, they launched an armed insurrection, but were quickly crushed by the Indian Army with brutality seldom seen in the Subcontinent and little reported to the outside world. Napalm bombing of villages was widespread-at the same time that Indian spokesmen American were condemning violence in Vietnam. Their arms came from the Chinese. But during the 1970s, their supply route through East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, dried up. Since then, they have had to trek through northern Burma for material assistance, a much longer line of supply.

NOTE TO READERS The editors of Asian Affairs, An American Review, and Roy A. Werner, author of "Is Japan an Open Market?" (Volume 9, Number 3, January/February 1982) regret that proper credit was not given in the citations to John R. Malott, the unidentified author of an earlier State Department paper. Sections II and III (pp. 149-156) of Mr. Werner's article were based in large part on an unpublished position

paper, "Is Japan Really an Open Market?"writtenin August 1977 in of for the US Department Stateby Mr. Malott, thenFirstSecretary the economicsection at the US Embassyin Tokyo.