Dimapur, November 20 (MExN): The Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN), Zeliangrong Region today strongly censored the recent declaration of the Zeliangrong Peoples’ Convention that expressed strong support to the ongoing peace talks between the Central Government and the NSCN (IM).
A press release received here from the Publicity & Information Department, FGN Zeliangrong Region, Munsin Panmei termed the on-going peace process between the GOI-NSCN (IM) ‘is only a selling process of the Naga national rights’. “The unscrupulous expression such as ‘unflinching support to the on-going peace process of Isak-Muivah group’ was never and will never be the voice of the Zeliangrong people,” the release declared.
Panmei declared that the Baudi leaders are well aware that the Zeliangrong people since the 1950’s have been undauntedly and unyieldingly defending the Naga sovereignty and the ancestral land the Zeliangrong people. In this regard, Munsin Panmei highly appreciated that the resolution adopted at the Zeliangrong People’s Convention on November 15 to protect, preserve and maintain the unique territorial existence of the Zeliangrong traditional and ancestral land. However, release declared that the ‘treacherous act’ of NSCN (IM) can never be supported by the Zeliangrong people. “If any public leader or any citizen of the Zeliangrong Region supports such perfidious act, it will be treated as a traitor now or in the future,” said Panmei.
Giving out reasons for its stand, the FGN Zeliangrong Region leader, said that Th Muivah had time and again declared that he has dropped the sovereignty issue from the Naga talks and that now he stands for ‘a special federal relationship with India’. “Why then these Baudi leaders declared that they have unflinching support to peace process of IM group?” questioned Panmei, “If they are not intentionally attempting to sell out the Naga national rights, how they can say such treacherous words.”
Panmei asserted that hundreds of Zeliangrong people have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Naga sovereignty in the past decades and therefore asked why the Baudi leaders are trying to betray the Zelaingrongs if they are the true leaders of the Zeliangrong people. “Their resolution is nothing but adding more fuel into burning fire. So, they will bear responsible for more killing in Zeliangrong Region,” asserted Panmei.
