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We do not have our own flag or any connection with Ceylon or Iceland. Our original traditional colours are red, white and black, and these colours are used by some voluntary organisations within Mizoram. But they do not represent our whole state or the whole community.
Van Neih Tluanga, Mizoram, 28 May 2000
Mizoram is probably a wrongly reported flag. I see that the Iceland flag was also reported like the one of Ceylon because the captions “Ceylon” and “Iceland” confused the translator. Mizoram was populated by Mizos, that were ethnically close to Chins. Perhaps “Iceland” can be confused with “Chin Land” for a European translator and reported and finally wrongly attributed. But in all, the national colors of the Chins are the R-W-B. Seems that the current colors of the Mizos are the green and the red.
Jaume Ollé, 8 June 1999
In Flags of Aspirant Peoples this flag is labelled as “Mizoram (Mizos, Zomis or “Chins”). The flag might be associated with a movement and not with the Mizoram state – as the caption of the chart seems to say. Encyclopaedia Universalis says that ‘Mizo’ is a generic term for several Tibeto-Burmese tribes, including the Lushai who settled in what is now Mizoram. 90% of the Lushai were converted by Baptist missionaries. This may explain the cross on the flag.
Ivan Sache, 16 Sep 1999
I contacted a high official in the Government of Mizoram, who declines to be identified publicly, and was informed that the white-blue flag with the red sun was a flag used by the Mizo National Front from 1961 until 1986. Prior to the formation of Mizo National Front, which had as its goal uniting all 12 Mizo tribes in the independent state of Greater Mizoram, that organization existed under the names:
Mizo Union 1947
Mizo Cultural Society 1955
Mautam Front 1956
Mizo National Famine Front 1960
In 1961 it assumed the name of Mizo National Front and initiated the armed struggle against Indian Government. MNF was outlawed in 1967, but entered negotiation with the Indians in 1971, which led to compromises on both sides and creation of the Union Territory in 1972. MNF became a political party and held power several times, bringing statehood to Mizoram in 1986. It exercises the power in the State currently, inviting heavy criticism from other segments of Mizo political spectrum for selling out ideas of independence for some cushy positions in the administrative bureaucracy.
My source cannot confirm positively the existence of the “Icelandic” flag, but taking a look at it, (I sent him the image) is not excluding entirely that it was used early by the Mizo Union in late forties and fifties. The colors are the same as chosen for the flag of MNF, and the cross is a popular symbol of Christianity (beside the “Star of David”) among overwhelmingly Christian Mizos – Presbyterians, Baptists, Roman Catholics and members of the Salvation Army. Additionally, the group which split from MNF in 1997, and adheres to old demands of independence for Greater Mizoam, Zoram Nationalist Party – ZNP, has a white flag with red sun in the middle, having twelve rays for 12 Mizo tribes.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 15 June 2003″
Mizo Flag chu hei
https://flagspot.net/flags/in-mz.html
A ngaih san awm kher mai ku Rintluanga chu.
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