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The Boro People

The Boros are a unique people who as you will find out deserve attention. So, The Boro Support Group wishes you happy hunting in culture, history, conflict and environment. When interested then react and let us know, encourage us and the Boros to stand up for their rights in their environment you will discover.

The Boro Support Group is a human rights organization and does not in any way condone violence or terrorism to achieve these rights to be exercised. The Boro Support Group does support the Boro Nation to defend itself against foreign aggression and encourages this through peaceful means. Consequently the Boro Support Group does not condone violence meted out by the state nor does it approve of any other form terrorism, but will expose it to the international community.

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On the premise that the Boro people too, just like any people, have the right to self determination, The Boro Support Group was founded in the year 2006. Not known to the world outside with the disputable incorporation of the Boros into India, this right to self determination was denied to them. After Great Britain decolonized their South Asian Empire the Boro Nation became part of the new colonizer; India. Since the Boros had no say in the affairs of decolonization and were delivered into the hands of India without the cultural recognition and respect for their land, they were discriminated, taken advantage of, sidelined and exploited. This treatment led many Boros to the conviction that they should stand up to fight for their inalienable right to self determination.

Though most likely all in this world know about the famous Assam tea, the Boros are a relatively unknown people. Because of this obscurity hardly a soul in this world knows about their culture and their plight to exist. The Boro Support Group, a group of volunteers based in the Hague the Netherlands, has taken it upon itself to expose the culture of the Boros so their uniqueness can be shared, but also supports them in their quest to achieve what is theirs, to be able to rule themselves.

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Who are the Boros?

The Boros are the ancient peoples who live in what is known as Assam today. Boro is the collective name for a group of tribal peoples like the Boros, Kacharis, Koch and many more. They share the same historic roots which date back millennia. Overrun in importance by later arrivals like the Ahoms, the people of which the state Assam was named after and hence ruled by outsiders, the Boros desire to regain jurisdiction over themselves and their land.

Why do the Boros need support, to achieve what purpose?

Because the Boros are relatively unknown in this world and have been abandoned by the British who once colonized them, they are at the mercy of the great Moloch India which can do en does as it deems fit. The Boros need support to be known and thus garner attention to their plight for self determination, a fundamental right which through the United Nations (UN) has been acknowledged by all nations in this world and this includes India too.

Objective of the Boros

The Objective of the Boros is straightforward and simple; Because the Boros are a sovereign people the Boros want to govern themselves. They want to form a democratic nation.

To encourage further interest a little more in depth reading this site is equipped with several chapters for you to choose from:

• in news the actualities are regularly updated so that progress and the comments on events can be traced
• in culture an expose of the heritage of the Boros is to be seen and a background is given. At a later stage short videoclips and music will be added
• in history the trek from the Boro origin in Tibet and their development in what now is Assam up to and beyond the colonization by the British and the taking over by India is shown both in short historic highlights and in more extensive background
• in the rationale of the conflict the Boro Support Group shows how the conflict emerged, how both India and Boroland dealt with it
• in prospect we introduce you to the actors in the conflict; the people both Boro and Indian who are engaged in talks for peace and how they see the conflict come to an end.
• in environment we present the land of the Boros; how they till it, how they live under natural circumstances and essentially in symbiosis with their environment without destroying it. We describe the habitat and the surrounding wildlife, flora and fauna

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