This is in reference to the news report appearing in your esteemed dailies highlighting that the Naga civil societies are demanding withdrawals of AFSPA from Nagaland without starting any reason. Here it may be pointed out that to demand withdrawals of the AFSPA without first resorting unity among the Naga groups, will be inviting fratricidal war among our people like in the headhunting days as all are armed to the teeth. Historically, it was the failure of the Government of India to fulfill its commitments and thereby emanates the Undo-Naga conflict, which is the cause for the emergence of so many opposing factions in Nagaland. And if the Government of India acknowledges this historical truth and fulfill its promises made to the NNC there would be no reason to impose AFSPA in Nagaland and there will be no Indo-Naga conflict. We must also understand that past records have clearly shown that the Government of India never intended to integrate the Nagas to be in India as a whole but in pieces.
Therefore all the Naga people both overground and the underground national workers should stand united and demand what the Government of India had already committed to the Naga people in the 9 Points Agreement of 1947 in order to settle the Naga issue. This is what A.Z. Phizo the father of Naga nation had wisely suggested to the then Governor General of India Sri Rajagopalachari in 1948 stating that “if my people had not taken to other route, the settlement of the Naga issue, I believe, should be based on Governor’s Ten Years Agreement (which resulted in the famous 9 Points Agreement) and that settlement should not be to the people but of the land which belongs to the Nagas”
In view of the above let us stop mixing the real Naga issue with non-issue but rather let us agree together and demand what is our right and settle the Naga issue in line with the prophetic suggestion of the father of the Naga nation.
T.L Angami, Head GB Founder and Advisor, NGBF
