The 20th January FNR Statement sounds like a famous football Team Manager in an interesting Spanish La Liga commenting the game to his players in the locker room just after unconscionably loosing the match. The Manager called his renowned players “Idiots”.
The FNR in Nagaland looked like the Arab League Fact Finding Committee to Syria. The Committee has done nothing to stop or even lessen the civilian killings in Damascus. The President Asad continue to pound unarmed protesters in spite of the Committee’s presence in Syria for weeks together now.
The UN is reluctant to act or is not united on the Issue, the European Union does not like to burn its fingers and America appears more interested in Troop withdrawals from Afghanistan than in sending Arms to help the Syrian Army deserters; great Nations like India and Brazil are still not up to World Mark yet to do anything and the Permanent Security Council Members -Russia and China- prefer to sit on the Fence: there are no other alternatives than to extend the life of the Arab League Fact Finding Committee and wait in the hope of something good to happen.
The FNR was born from the road and is mostly a creation of the News Media. It did not come out of any Customary or Traditional Nagas Authority. The FNR has no umbilical cord tethered to any clear cut Organization. It is neither clearly a Religious Organization nor a Government one: it is not a Social Organization or a Political group. It is not purely Naga in content; it appears to lean generously on the foreign component. Its content is hotchpotch and appears to run on the wisdom of the FNR themselves assisted desirably by some Baptists in America and the Quakers in UK. The FNR has no clear Ideology other than the hope on Heaven.
The FNR is sometimes seen in the corridors of Power in the State Government, they are often heard making Sermon and Speeches in the Churches, in the public gatherings and in some Oking places on the political Rights of the Nagas, on Naga Nationalism, on God’s particular love for the Nagas and on Human Rights also. It talks of its great Journey of Hope for the Nagas and makes foreign trips for the business of Naga Reconciliation and Integration. It seems to be addressed to so many issues that sometimes we are confused as to what is its main issue.
I sometimes feel very sad the FNR has wasted so much of public Concern & Time for a Peace it has run out of Ideas and for a cause it was ill equipped. The FNR neither had nor have any concrete Proposal for the political Peace other than Praying or Playing and Meeting together. And thus I often feel the Elites like those in the FNR and the faithful have let down the Nagas, however like the Arab League Fact Finding Committee, the Nagas today have no other alternatives than to have infinite Christian patience and hope for something good to just happen.
Thepfulhouvi Solo
