Dimapur, August 10 (MExN): If the Nagas in Myanmar can be educated, a student’s organisation said today, the problem of insurgency in north east India may be solved once and for all. A military recourse to tackle the insurgency would solve the problem but only create more, the students’ organisation reminded India.
The Government of India is told by the Eastern Naga Students’ Association that cooperation with the Myanmar Junta for “joint operations” have only piled the number of innocents, dead and destroyed. The ENSA said the lack of Media coverage is an ‘advantage’ for the military to wage inhumanity and bloodshed against innocent villagers and not the “real culprits.” The ENSA hopes that “good sense” would prevail over both the leaders of India and Myanmar. A faxed message from the ENSA was received here today.
Instead of wasting millions of dollars for joint operations with the Myanmar junta, the ENSA said if the government can educate the Myanmar Nagas “surely the problem of north east insurgents may (be) solved once for all.”
The ENSA appealed to the Government of India to wage joint development ventures rather than joint military operations. “In the name of joint operations against so-called north east insurgents, many civilians become victim,” the ENSA stated. ‘Signing millions of dollars between India and Myanmar for joint operations against north east India insurgents is “unacceptable,” the association said. The reason the association said are that ‘in the name of joint operations’ villagers and civilians are harassed, tortured and killed. Villages are razed by the military and villagers killed tortured and killed, the ENSA reminded. All these are completely against Human rights, the ENSA said.
The suffering of the Nagas in Myanmar is yet to be exposed because there is no media coverage, the association said. “Till date even the world is ignoring the suffering of the civilians during such operation,” the ENSA said. The association said it is not against the “millions of dollars deal” to counter terrorists. ENSA is against targeting of civilians in the name of joint operations instead of the “real culprits” by the military.
The ENSA has challenged the government of the world’s biggest democracy and “followers of non-violence” India to reach out directly to the Nagas of Myanmar with development and education. “The Government of India should set up good institutions in every entry point for eastern Nagas and lifting up of restriction upon public movement in the border area instead of wasting millions of dollars for joint operations…”
