Dimapur, August 2 NNN: The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) has admitted that as in any peoples’ history, Naga history has its own share of pitfalls. However, more ominous are the subsurface tensions among the Nagas, said the FNR.
Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) is responsible for reducing the factional clashes among the Naga underground organisations in the last few days. Founded in the year 2008, the FNR has been convening several meetings involving various Naga underground groups.
On Tuesday, the FNR said, “One is pitted against the other. Our history is filled with accounts of sectional interests clashing with those of another group, of pressure groups with special favor, and of emotional propagandists who temporarily sweep reason and sense by the wayside”.
It said the current Naga situation, as a result of its totalitarian posture, has caused antagonism among its people. The fallacy of the totalitarian saturation of people through a single cultural, political and religious agenda results in the exclusion of not only the other but the self, it added.
“Experts have discouraged groups from developing whole and realistic goals for the common good. Such an approach has boomeranged, resulting in isolated hearts and divided minds. This sensibility will continue to breed a bleak future for the Nagas. Nagas have doubts about our sense of purpose, instigated by parochial interests. We have poured increasing amounts of our mental energy to justify all our wrongs, believing that Nagas, young and old, will remain pacified and unperturbed. We are restrained from pursuing our legitimate rights, and we abjectly rationalize our own personal interests,” the FNR stated today.
“Since May 2008, the Naga political groups have taken the courageous leap towards a common humanity by transcending the fences that have divided us. The fact of the matter is we have attained a measure of relative calm and regard for our common humanity and a common political identity based on the unique “political and historical rights of the Nagas.”
34 years after the 1964 Ceasefire with the NNC, the GOI acknowledged that the case of “The Indo-Naga political problem cannot be solved militarily . . . It is not a law and order problem as it is a political issue.” Still, despite the declarations of the GOI in 1997, it took another five years for an acknowledgement, through the collective leadership of Mr. Isak Chishi Swu and Mr. Th. Muivah of the NSCN/GPRN, that the political and historical rights of the Naga people “is unique.” Similar to how Nagas recognized the 1964 achievement of the NNC, the events and actions that led to the July 2002 assertion of “The Uniqueness of Naga History” deserve its due recognition as a historical event for the Nagas.
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