DIMAPUR, MARCH 21 (MExN): Brigadier Retd S. Singnya, Kedahge of the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) today stated that Nagas are “divided in defining who we were and what we must be now.”
In his message on the Naga Republic Day, he stated that Naga nationalism is in “danger because we seem to be losing the spirit that gave birth to our nationalism.” “We are cowed down by modernism and ideology that says the world is changing and we too must change,” he added.
He however termed this as the “language of those who play the politics of convenience and adaptation.” Knowledge and adaptation is important as a nation, he conceded while asserting that Nagas must not import knowledge that may “destroy the very fabric of our nationalism.” “Rights, whether it be birth right, historical right, political right or any other will not change. Thus our nationalism at the threshold of losing its identity and the fear of evolving into a nationalism of convenience stands before us as our greatest challenge. We have to realize the danger of attempting to popularize our national issues in the same plane as existential knowledge.”
He stated that “we must travel back to the past to reclaim our rights that was declared in unity and trust and struggle forward together with pride and dignity. We must continue to show the world that we have the moral strength and power to suffer for truth and not allow our oppressors to use civilization and advancement as tools to suppress our rights to live as a free nation.”
