NAGA DAY: FNR extends public invitation

Dimapur, January 6 (MExN): The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) has issued a clarion call inviting all to join the celebrations of the first ‘Naga Day’ on January 10 at Kohima.  

Under the theme “Nagas Without Borders”, the ‘Naga Day’ is being organized by the FNR on January 10, 10:00 am, at Khuochiezie (Local Ground), Kohima with the Angami Public Organization (APO) as host.  

Terming the day “an opportunity to come in solidarity and stand together as one people”, the FNR extended the public invitation to everybody – including all Naga National Groups, Naga apex organizations (hoho, tribes, GBs and DBs, Church, women, student and youth organizations and civil society organizations), Naga leaders, the public – young and old, women and men, the media and friends of the Naga people.  

The Naga Day falls on the day that the Memorandum of the Naga Hills submitted by the Naga Club to the Simon Commission on January 10, 1929. The Memorandum is the first written assertion of Naga rights.  

The FNR further urged all Nagas “wherever you may be” to celebrate ‘Naga Day’ in the coming years. “After all, ‘Naga Day’ belongs to all!”  

FNR releases video message on Naga Day

  In a video message released on December 20, Rev. Dr. Wati Aier, Convener of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation invites all Naga people to come together in celebration of Naga Day, to be held on January 10, 2018, in Kohima. Naga Day will celebrate the first articulation of the Naga peoples’ desire to live as a free people through a memorandum submitted to the Simon Commission on January 10, 1929—the Naga Day will become a socio-cultural coming together of Naga people beyond borders. In this endeavour, the FNR released a book about the Naga Day on December 9, 2017. Read about it here: http://morungexpress.com/naga-day-book-naga-reconciliation-launched/ Download the 2nd and revised edition of FNR’s Naga Day e-book here.   To know more about Naga Day, you may refer to this: http://morungexpress.com/january-10-2018-fnr-proposes-naga-day-nagas-without-borders/