DIMAPUR, JANUARY 30 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO), while acknowledging the Nagaland State Government for proposing a Naga Summit scheduled for February, has urge the latter to move for an emergency assembly session before the Summit, and evoke subsequent proceedings for further deliberations of safeguarding the integrity and sanctity of the national borders in both the houses of parliament to be endorsed through both the MPs from the State.
A press note from the ENPO stated that the subject of fencing by the Myanmarese authorities at Pangsha village dividing its ancestral land at ITC (Dan) junction between international border pillars nos. 145 to 146 under Noklak sub division, Tuensang district, is inherent to the Indo-Naga political issue, “which out rightly qualifies to be addressed politically at the highest levels in the most urgent and appropriate manner.”
The ENPO informed that it is also “officially engaged through due process for the same with the relevant ministries and authorities of the Governments of India, Myanmar and the State Government along with the immediate and the concerned landowners for ‘Trilateral’ approach on the matter.” It meanwhile added that Article 371-A of the Indian Constitution will also be a central reference point in the subject matter.
See what is happening beyond our door step: WNYSU urges Nagas
The Wolam Nyukyan (New Pangsha) Students’ Union (WNYSU) today grieved over the “negligence” of the Nagaland State Government regarding the border fencing issue, and lamented that “it seems Nagas are lulled in slumber by the buzz of ULB election from seeing what is going on beyond our door step.”
“Justice of humanity should exist and inner thoughts of the common people should also be comprehended with no advantage of such that far flung area in silence, where actually the disease of small scratches which is already at the edge of spreading into the vein of the whole of the Nagas. By being witnessed and stepping on it, we see no sign of solution as the construction going on by the Govt. of Myanmar is still continuing and already in the mid of provoking war in the area,” the WNYSU said in a press note today.
It further questioned “why the Indian Army should also be posted there if India is not involved in the agreement in doing so and only meant to be a mere watch dog to the works doing by the Govt of Myanmar.”
“Today we cannot tolerate to see such act of evil design to break away the spirit of peaceful environment and to replicate the history of ancestral inherent land,” it stated, while appealing to all Naga NGOs from India and Myanmar to “anticipate to this matter before it is gone too late.”
“The value content of the simple description of ‘Land’ which the people of Pangsha are fighting is a bitter truth in the context of humanity: division of one-blood ancestral Naga and deprivation of the rights of ownership of land,” the WNYSU stated.
It meanwhile appreciated all the NGOs and individuals who have voiced support to the ENPO and KTC stand regarding the issue.
