Dr. Aaron Lungleng,
Ukhrul
The attaining nonagenarian (1929-2018) Naga struggle for self-determination is given birth by legitimate historical, cultural, political as well as biological that has no divergence to any existing universal law. The present contenting disclaimer of neighboring states and their stiff opposition to the Indo-Naga political settlement is observed purely as a direct challenge to humanity and existence. Simply, an employed baby sitter cannot claim parentage. Such is the prevailing situation at this stage of final Indo-Naga political settlement that India needs to understand if at all she is determined to bring the age old political conflict to an honorable end.
Nagas are not Indian is the proven fact and the crux of the conflict, hence solution should be arrived at in the bidding of respect and coexistence. If the present offer of shared sovereignty is taken as illusive, there may not be any better time and opportunity for both the party.
The policy of incitement and waylaying to disowned the agreed terms and recognition of Naga uniqueness should be stopped immediately because it will never serve the continuation of supra subjugation/oppression instead it will lead to provocative engagement to the 71 years old republic. People’s rights are derived out of history, cultural, political as well as biological legitimacy but on abjuration to respect others rights evoked engagement of power, strength and frame malign policies of annihilation. What Nagas don’t validate in demand for self-determination as a people? Did the Nagas ask others land? No, it is pathetic on the countering opposition (Meitei and associates) against to settlement to any cultural, political, economic and self-identity establishment. Savagery has no place in this post modernity.
It only shows immaturity that manifest the syndrome of power and ruling obsession. What don’t belong to you; do not belong to you, so it is wise to practice political tolerance rather than challenging humanism and existential rights of people. Such grandiloquence is an overriding to the provision of the charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development”.
The Nagas without boundaries and as a nation must come toward united and stand the test of time to any aggression and those vying to derail the peace initiative that is expected to ink the final settlement. Successively, if the generous offer of shared sovereignty is not admiring to India the Nagas need to go his own way. It is hard to have total faith in the Indian as well as her perplex democracy that could hardly deal with political concerns.
It is of a great apprehension that India will keep the negotiation delay by political party, democratic etc. as an implication. The framework agreement is believed to be signed on the basis of two political entities which therefore required no others people’s acceptance and interference.
For India and the Nagas, political mutuality and natural negotiation appear more pragmatic in finding a common ends rather than investigative manipulated diplomatic dexterity application. If India is a competent nation she should have made used of the constitutional provision that has empowered creation of state/states (nation state).
The protracted conflict should find an immediate termination before the extraction of people’s trust and empathy. Nevertheless, Nagas were not ruled either by Burma or India since time immemorial, the present Naga situation is the divisional colonialism and aggression of the two (India and Burma) against Universal rights and on the pretext of delaying independence with a deliberate derisory to the United Nations Charter that solemnly proclaimed to bring to a speedy and unconditional end of colonialism an all its forms and manifestations.
Note: The article expresses is in the exercise of freedom of speech and expression. The writer can be reached at doclungleng@gmail.com
