Dimapur, Jan 3 (MExN): Strongly reminding that the people did not sent their sons to kill or be killed and “finish the Nagas”, and that Nagas want peace and unity for a permanent solution of “full independence or below it”, Naga chiefs have sounded an appeal to all Naga underground organizations to forgive each other and settle the political issue through dialogue. Village chiefs and GBs assert that the undergrounds are no longer working for the cause as endorsed by the people – rather they are only “more interested to kill each other”. For this reason, there is confusion today whether or not support to “Naga national workers” should continue to be rendered.
An appeal from the Village Chiefs/GB Federation lamented that, the Naga factions, rather than heeding to the decades-old call of the people for peace have “become more interested to kill each other….after obtained ceasefire with GOI”. Lamenting that the Nagas’ final goal might be achieved only after ‘finishing off the Nagas’ the federation has asked the factions to hammer out a solution for forgiveness and unity rather than the accursed fratricide since the ‘Nagas have no more confidence in them’.
“Dear Naga national workers, as you are well aware that the Nagas want peace and unity for a permanent solution though it be full independence or below it, I on behalf of the village chiefs, Anghs and village chairmen in Nagaland strongly appeal to all the Naga national worker leaders to forgive each other and forget their past mistakes by welcoming each other and to settle the Naga political issue once and for all through talks as desired by the Nagas as a whole” stated the Federation through its Founder and Advisor TL Angami.
The federation pointed out that after the house of NSCN divided, killings amongst the Nagas commenced, removing leaders from each others’ factions. These killings are going on in the name of Naga independence, the same policy of which is followed by the GOI itself and the blood continues to flow despite the efforts of Naga organizations and the people to affect reconciliation and forgiveness, the chiefs stated. The federation cautioned that if the “Naga national workers” do not realize and retrace their steps, all the blood shed over Naga history would one day be paid “by you” and “curses will come down into your generations”.
