Dimapur, November 7 (MExN): Stating that it is always the masses who have been silent spectators, the Ceasefire Supervisory Board of the NSCN-K says that it is the people to “give” their mandate for a quicker solution to the Naga “freedom” movement.
“…at the end of the day it is always the (masses) who have been the silent spectator and hearer to give the right judgment and voice out their opinion towards the Naga freedom movement and not any factions or political party or bureaucrats or NGO” stated Member of the CFSB Hokato Vushe in an opinion received here. “It is the mass that should give their mandate towards quicker solution to the Naga freedom movement. For, to be upright is where the will of God is and that’s where the Nagas’ sovereignty is” he mused.
He queried why the Naga should limit his view of the Naga freedom movement to factions alone. “Perhaps it may be that the factional clashes in the name of freedom struggles have taken the center stage at this juncture and hence the assumption but that’s absolutely wrong” Vushe maintained. He asserted that the Naga political issue “is a question of ethnicity and anthropology whereby a particular group of people belonging to the same race and related by blood wants to reclaim their past freedom.”
The NSCN-K even maintained that “in fact factional issue is baseless in terms of Naga freedom issue” and “they don’t ever come up in dialogue with the Indians.” It is in fact a “family problem” deeply-rooted in India’s policy of ‘divide and rule’ he stated. He also echoed strongly that every Naga, including the “factions ourselves” knows this “but there seems to be no willing heart to mend it.” The NSCN-K also took to task the political leaders, state bureaucrats and NGOs for following suit (“‘divide and rule’ in between the factions to serve their own purpose”). He observed that the “overground” leaders’ support to a particular faction is not because of patriotism but for “self-security” and to climb up the social ladder financially.
The CFSB member also strongly held that “We are not working for the factions be it NSCN (IM), NSCN (K) FGN or NNC but we are working for Naga sovereignty.” Vushe asserted that it is about time every Naga plays its own part. He asserted: “The Nagas have suffered every bit of bitterness, every scene of horror and every kind of torture for the past half-century. It is high time for every right-thinking Naga to play their own part with patriotism so as (to) materialize our freedom struggle because Naga sovereignty does not depend on any factions or political party or anyone but solely on the Nagas as a people.”
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