Dimapur, July 12 (MExN): General Secretary of the NSCN/GPRN Th. Muivah expresses gratitude to the Angami Public Organization for organizing “public interaction on Naga political journey.” To the Angami people, Muivah said “your contribution to the cause is indeed historic. Yet, it still must be sustained through strong resolve based on the Naga national stand. An opportune moment has come for all the Nagas to stand together.”
In his “message to the Angamis” Muivah stated that “the Nagas were “fortunate to have people who understood the change of season.” The NNC and its leadership including AZ. Phizo, Imkongmeren, T. Sakhrei, Whenha, Kughato Sukhai, Khodao Yanthan and others “were sufficiently aware of the inevitable changes that might possibly overtake the Nagas.”
“There was no doubt at all that they took the correct decision and saved the Naga nation when several other nations were submerged on account of failing to take the right stand,” Muivah claimed in the copy of his “message to the Angamis” received here.
Muivah also said to be valuing what he called the “momentous political choice of our people” for free “Nagalim” and “Nagalim for Christ.” There is no other foundation for the Naga “nation” apart from these historic stands, he asserted. “Therefore, any Agreements or Accords which do not have the mandate of the Naga people cannot claim to represent the Naga people’s aspiration.”
The NSCN/GPRN leader also said “we are for reconciliation amongst the Nagas but it must be worked out on a realistic line that respects the sovereign aspiration of the Naga people.” Therefore, he explained, “reconciliation will be in the name of God because it is the way He wants us to take and that can be done through faith in Christ. It signifies our respect for the Naga national motto of ‘Nagaland for Christ’”
“Second, reconciliation should take the political approach hence, we must reconcile respecting the ‘unique history of the Nagas’ which is now officially recognized by the Government of India in the Amsterdam Joint Communiqué of July 11, 2002,” Muivah said. Muivah was also all praise for AZ Phizo. He called the late leaders “one of the guiding star of the nation.”
“I tell you my Naga people, there is none greater than those who had saved the nation. President A.Z. Phizo was one of the guiding star of the nation. We attribute eternal glory to President A.Z. Phizo and all the other leaders.”
