DIMAPUR, JULY 21 (MExN): The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) on Friday appealed the people of Manipur, the neighboring communities and the citizens of India as a whole to go beyond interpreting the “happenings” in Manipur to changing the situation.
For this, the FNR in a press statement said all stakeholders must begin “from interpreting through various narratives, depending on the position of the narrators, to owning responsibilities to what has been created in Manipur.”
With the happenings in the state of Manipur globalised for the wrong reasons, the FNR said all stakeholders, governments, organizations, religious bodies and man and woman are morally involved and bear the shame without the twist of “buts” and “ifs.”
The urgent need of the hour is transcending “good and bad” moralization to naming the evil of every kind – hate to arrogance, pride to anger, lies to deception, violation of human dignity to violence, inherent in humanity, it emphasized.
The FNR also noted that force of any kind-be it army or governmental agencies cannot create a “just peace” society, adding that only people, no matter how awkward it may be, coming together can create a congenial space towards the path to peace. It has, therefore, called upon the parties concern in Manipur to, at a minimum level, share a common understanding of what comes next. In Manipur, cultural communities have never been so apart since May 3, 2023, it said.
What is needed is not an outside agency as much as a sober analysis among the communities that will contribute to a fuller understanding of the issue, the FNR said while underling that for any peace to have a chance, concerned cultural communities of men and women must be involved in all stages of internal peace efforts.
