Yilow Humtsoe
The Acting President,
Naga National Council
I praise our living God in thanksgiving for the 75th Year of Anniversary of the Naga Independence Day Celebration of 14th August 2022. This day was declared and acknowledged by the United Nations one day ahead of India’s Independence in the year 1947. This significant day of our National and Historical Right is the main political and democratic right for Freedom of Sovereignty of the Naga people.
Today we also honour and remember the thousands of Naga National martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the sovereignty of the Nagas. Therefore the Naga National council caution the present Naga national workers who are negotiating with the Indian Government not to compromise the very democratic rights for which the martyrs has fought and sacrificed for. The Naga national workers who compromise this legitimate and inalienable right will be condemned and the blood of the martyrs will be upon them.
The Naga National Council have been honouring and celebrating the Naga Independence Day of 14th August ever since the declaration in 1947, as official cable message was sent to the United Nations Organisation and Nagas as an Independent people and nation was acknowledged by the World Body. The Naga people must be very clear about this indisputable democratic right of freedom. Therefore the Government of India and Burma (Myanmar) must officially recognise and declare Naga people and it’s Homeland a free Independent Nation, as both the aggressors have illegally occupied the Naga Homeland for the last 75 years. However, the political situations around the globe is such that the day is not far off as the political plight of Nagas as a suppressed and oppressed nation is now better known to the world.
This is the time for both the aggressors’ Governments to free the Naga people on this Jubilee year of freedom from bondage and control.
The Naga people have been politically suffering for a long time now with tears and blood in the hands of the Government of India and Military Junta of Myanmar, and at this point we yearn for real peace in the Homeland.
The Nagas have been fighting for our political and historical rights to be recognised by other sovereign nations as a free and independent nation to develop itself and to contribute towards peace not only in the region but the world at large. Therefore the NNC appeal to the community of nations to address the plight of the Nagas.
Therefore the Naga people as a whole must stand firm in our historical and political rights to be officially recognised as political situation around the South East Asian countries are fast changing in favour for development.
The Naga National Council as the Parent Body would like to appeal once again to all the Naga people as a whole to unite for the permanent settlement for peace in the Homeland.
In conclusion, the Government of India being the biggest and largest democracy in the world must officially declare the Nagas and its Homeland a Free and Independent Nation to develop itself. And as Government of India has already recognised the Historical and Political Rights of the Nagas to self determine their future in consonance with their distinct identity as unique history and situation. And this will result in permanent peace and development in the South East Asian Region. Praise God in the Highest, Amen.
KUKNALIM
