Naga Self-Administered Zone

The Naga Self-Administered Zone (Burmese: နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ [nàɡa̰ kòbàɪɴ ʔoʊʔtɕʰoʊʔ kʰwɪ̰ɴja̰ dèθa̰]), is a self-administered zone in the Naga Hills area of Sagaing Region of Myanmar. Its administrative seat is the town of Lahe.[2]

Naga Self-Administered Zone

နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ
Self-administered zone
Flag
Seal
Naga SAZ shown in light blue within Myanmar
Country Myanmar
Region Sagaing Region
No. of Townships3
CapitalLahe
Government
 • ChairpersonKay Hsai
Population
 • Total116,828
Demonym(s)Naga
Time zoneUTC+6.30 (MMT)
WebsiteNaga Self-Administered Zone

History

The Naga Self-Administered Zone was created under the terms of the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar.[3] Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010.[4][2]

In August 2016, an outbreak of measles caused the deaths of 44 children.[5][6] The outbreak may have been caused by a lack of measles vaccinations due to poor health infrastructure.[7]

Government and politics

The Naga Self-Administered Zone is administered by a Leading Body, which consists of at least ten members and includes Regional Hluttaw (Assembly) members elected from the Zone and members nominated by the Armed Forces. The Leading Body performs both executive and legislative functions and is led by a Chairperson, currently Kay Hsai.[8] The Leading Body has competence in ten areas of policy, including urban and rural development, road construction and maintenance, and public health.[9]

Administrative divisions

The zone is made up of the three townships:[10]

Subtownship

  • Donhee
  • Htanparkway
  • Mobaingluk
  • Pansaung
  • Sonemara

The three townships were previously part of the Hkamti District prior to the creation of the Naga Self-Administered Zone.

In 2015, it was proposed that Hkamti and Homalin townships be added to the Naga Self-Administered zone. This was welcomed by ethnic Nagas but came against opposition from other ethnic groups in the townships.[11]

Demographics

The zone was created to be self-administered by the Naga people. Two-thirds of the Naga people in Myanmar are Christian and one-third practice Theravada Buddhism.[12]

See also

References
  1. Sagaing Region. The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. 3-E. Naypyitaw: Ministry of Immigration and Population. May 2015. p. 17.
  2. Xinhua Staff (21 August 2010) "Myanmar re-designates areas under new constitution ahead of election" People's Daily Online, last accessed 5 October 2010
  3. "Online Burma Library > Main Library > Law and Constitution > Constitutional and parliamentary processes > National constitutions, draft constitutions, amendments and announcements (texts)". www.burmalibrary.org. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  4. "တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ". Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 20 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  5. "Measles death toll reaches 44 in Naga | Eleven Myanmar". www.elevenmyanmar.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  6. "WHO doctors in Myanmar's Naga areas identify 'mystery disease' – Eastern Mirror". www.easternmirrornagaland.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  7. "Myanmar (02): (SA) fatal, measles conf". www.promedmail.org (Archive Number: 20160806.4398118). International Society for Infectious Diseases. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  8. http://www.msco.gov.mm/en/latest-news-news/union-minister-u-kyaw-tint-swe-meets-officials-naga-self-administered-zone
  9. https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/nagaland-a-frontier-for-now
  10. ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese). 2008. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015.
  11. https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/12977-naga-zone-expansion-plan-sparks-protests-petitions.html
  12. "The Naga tribes of Myanmar - The Boston Globe". Retrieved 10 August 2016.

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