Mizoram Peace Accord
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The Mizoram Peace Accord, 1986 was an official agreement between the Government of India and the Mizo National Front (MNF) to end insurgency and violence in Mizoram, India, that started in 1966. The Mizo National Front was an organisation of Mizo secessionists led by Laldenga to fight for independence from India. The movement was basically due to lack of support from the government during the great famine (called Mautam) in Mizoram in the late 1950s. Political insurgency and social unrest ensued in the next decades. After a number of negotiations, the document titled Mizoram Accord, 1986: Memorandum of Settlement was finally signed on 30 June 1986. It was signed by Laldenga for MNF, R.D. Pradhan, Home Secretary, Government of India, and Lalkhama, Chief Secretary, Government of Mizoram. It is remarked as the most and only successful peace agreement in India after its independence from British Empire in 1947.
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The Mizo people were incorporated to the British rule since the 1870 as a retaliation of the Mizo people invading the British territory and capturing a British girl Zoluti (Mary Winchester). As India gained independence in 1947, the Mizo people were governed under the state of Assam. In 1952, a subsidiary government called the Lushai Hills District was created under Assam, which basically covered the later Mizoram.
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