Dimapur, June 28 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN has said that the “so-called peace and reconciliation mission” undertaken by Th. Muivah in Nagaland is a “short story of concoction, contradiction, massive face-saving campaign, violating the covenant of common hope”. “It began with barrage high and mighty words, whipping up mass hysteria on both side of the Nagaland-Manipur border, creating deeper rift between Manipur government and Nagas of Manipur state. In the end, as sad as it appeared, even with the Z plus security provided by the GOI and a large number of heavily armed IM cadres, he was forced to lick his bruised ego at Viswema village unable to enter his home state of Manipur”, stated a note issued by Meren Nokpu, MIP ‘kilonser’ and Ao region supervisor of the GPRN/NSCN.
The note stated that “suddenly at Angami soil, the thirty five years of anti-Phizo/NNC tirades gave way to romanticizing A. Z Phizo and a host of Naga leaders who, till the morning of Mao gate incident were utterly cursed and ridiculed as traitors for their role in the infamous Shillong Accord of 1975 and aftermath”. The MIP said that the man who boasted in the media more than a month ago — “…no power on earth can stop me from visiting my birth place” — was still loitering around in Nagaland.
The lesson is simple: “If you don’t respect others, no one will respect you.” The GPRN/NSCN claimed that the “rescheduled itinerary forced Th. Muivah to urgently sent feelers to Angamis, Chakhesangs, Sumis, Rengmas, Lothas, Aos etc. to kindly allow him to visit their lands”. The press note from the MIP Kilonser went on to state that a number of tribes, village authorities and intellectuals expressed their reservations and unwillingness to welcome him “because the tears of the parents, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends of those mercilessly killed by IM in the name of the nation had not dried, thus adding further insult to the wounded pride”. Stating that the crimes committed in the past can be forgiven but not forgotten, the GPRN/NSCN pointed out that the “opposition of his visit is never to forcibly stop him but to make the position of Naga tribes very lucid to him”. On a number of occasions the position of guests and hosts are clearly defined in the media outlets, it stated.
The GPRN/NSCN Ao Region has made its position very clear on the proposed visit of Th. Muivah to Ao country. “Taking undue advantage of the present reconciliation process and sowing seeds of disunity is against the very principle of reconciliation”, the MIP Kilonser stated. Accordingly it was pointed out that if ever there was a mandate of the Ao Nagas to any group, it is purely to uphold the sovereign rights of the Naga people. “Ao people, at no point of time, mandated Th. Muivah to pursue integration issue ahead of political solution. The thirty two point charter of demand submitted to the GOI is but a manipulation of the people’s trust. It is for the Ao people, who are considered as one of the advanced tribes with responsible intelligentsia at the helm, to question what the thirty two point charter of demand is”, the press note stated.
