Allies in the Hills: Indian and Burmese hill tribes in the war against Japan 

Talk by Dr Robert Lyman
During the war in the Far East the various people of the hills around Burma’s periphery - the Nagas, Kachins, Karens, Chins and Rohingyas - did much to support the Allied war effort. Indeed, without the direct support of many of these people the war would have been much more difficult to win. This talk will explain the various tribes, examine their motivations and outline what they undertook to do, often at great peril, in the war against the Japanese.