Dimapur, July 27 (MExN): The NSCN-IM held its 6th ‘Naga people’s’ consultative meet at Camp Hebron today where the ‘general tone was that another round of ceasefire be had.’ An MIP note asserted that “thousands from every nook and corner of Naga inhibited areas, including Somra of Myanmar turned up to listen and to speak on the Naga Ceasefire with India.”
“The anxiety of the Naga people in deciding the fate of the Indo-Naga Ceasefire that has touch ten years without anything worth to show of was visible demonstrated at Council Headquarters, Hebron. Significantly, anybody who matters in the social set up of Nagas turn up to make the day that carries the Naga people’s mandate” an MIP note from the NSCN-IM stated.
According to the MIP note, NSCN-IM general secretary Th. Muivah Muivah reminded that “we need to understand each other, because this is not the time to make mistake…when we understand the position of our adversaries there is nothing to fear.” He made it clear that India has ‘well-understood’ the Nagas’ historical issue while the Nagas “have also understood India’s position, but Nagas can still go on to make things very clear if India fail to follow.”
The note further stated that recollecting his talk to Padmanabhaiah, India’s interlocutor, Muivah reminded that unless India respects the history of the Nagas, there’ll be no meeting point. “And Padmanabhaiah responded that he’ll respect Naga history because he is convinced of Nagas’ right” the MIP quoted adding that this “was the way Muivah convinced him to come to Kohima for the next round of Indo-Naga talk to demonstrate his respect for Nagas’ sentiment.”
On the Ceasefire, the NSCN-IM as a “people’s mandated movement” make things very clear to India that unless the people are taken along, the MIP stated, there will be no solution. Then the Naga people will have to give voice on the fate of the ceasefire that ends on July 31, the NSCN-IM stated.
‘There is no single Naga civil society that failed to express solidarity in making such crucial decision as on ceasefires’ the NSCN-IM observed adding that the ‘general tone of the meeting was to go for another round of ceasefire’
Besides the Naga Hoho, Naga Mothers’ Association, Naga Students’ Federation, Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Right and the UNC, all “Naga civil societies” attended, it informed.
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