Emilo Khuvung
Wokha | June 26
General Secretary of the NSCN (IM) Th. Muivah today addressed a meeting at the town’s ground. Addressing the gathering, Muivah said “I am a proud man, because of such kind of inspiring welcome and respect”. Muivah said everybody has their own history and as Bible says nation shall rise and nation shall fall.
“While Britishers left India, our senior leaders have taken the right decision at the right time” said Muivah. The British declared the Nagas land as excluded from India in 1935 yet the leaders decided that Nagas will stay of their own, remain independent and sovereign without being attached to India or Burma. “Had there been no decision like that, Nagas would have been perished and that is the best decision. Our leaders during their time will not fail the Nagas” the NSCN leader said. He also said that the Nagas do not understand each other and fighting and killing amongst the Nagas will begin.
He urged the Kyong not to forget the decisions taken at Sanis and Lakhuti. “I don’t want to be a lost man, I want to be safe. Tell me if you know the way to be safe. Most of our leaders have died but they have not failed in their time”, said Muivah.
He also narrated how he met the Late vice president of NSCN (IM) Khodao Yanthan in Europe and talked about the history created by him and leaders. “I don’t forget his words, yes Nagas rightly decided the right thing for the Nagas ourselves and we are proud of that. But he was also sad with the signing of the Shillong Accord. He was not a confused man but had a clear conscious and agreed that Shillong Accord was selling out the rights of Naga people”, said Muivah. “Today he is no more here; he would have been the better person to tell about the past.”
Muivah also said Khodao never failed to take the right decision and had proven himself to the last. Muivah expressed pride of leaders such as Khodao and urged the Nagas to follow Yanthan’s steps. Talking about the Naga National Council, Muivah said its ‘decision had saved the Nagas as in the past; Naga villages fought each other and was not unified but since the NNC started the Naga “national” movement, the Nagas stood together in support of the cause. Muivah said to want the Kyong to understand the fact that the Government of India recognized the unique history of the Nagas.
Kyong Hoho chairman Yansathung Jami also addressed the gathering. “Now today all the Naga national leaders have resolved to settle Naga political problems with the Government of India, the Kyong community therefore urges all the Naga national leaders to come together as one and bring about final political settlement”, Jami said.
A separate statement from the NSCN (IM) MIP further said Muivah assured to “stand by our history” and mentioned how the Simon Commission,1935 Act, the formation of NNC and events that followed testified to Nagas’ history as a separate “nation”.
uivah acknowledged the decision taken by leaders such as Phizo, Imkongmeren, Kughato Sukhai Khodao and others, and the decision to stay apart from India and Myanmar. “Had our leaders not taken the right decision at the right time we would have been a lost people, and thank God we are not lost people,” he said.
On the latest situation of the Indo-Naga political talks he mentioned the commitment given to him by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to bring about an honorable solution acceptable to both sides and through negotiations.
