Morung Express News
December 30
DIMAPUR: Pointing out that the Nagas just stand on freedom was unstoppable, NNC President Adinno Phizo has reminded that no one should forget the many thousands Naga patriots who laid down their lives resisting Indian aggression.
“However long it takes, nothing can make the Nagas despair because we love our country and the Nagas Just stand on freedom is unstoppable”, Adinno stated in her New Year message.
Seriously questioning the legitimacy of the NSCN (IM), Adinno pointed out that whereas in 1964 the Government of India and the Federal Government of Nagaland reached an international Cease-fire Agreement binding on both nations, the current administrative so-called cease-fire between the Indian army and the Indian financed “NSCN-IM” mostly drawn from outside Nagaland has no political relevance to the conflict in Nagaland.
Stating that the resilient Nagas would refuse to be intimidated by the belligerence of India, Adinno pointed out that there was no justification for India to prolong the unlawful occupation of Nagaland. “Let us remind Delhi, the Nagas in common with the rest of the world want peace. In the name of peace, the Naga people ask India to quit Nagaland without delay”.
She also pointed out that Nagaland has since complied with every international criterion to be a nation state. “We have our national flag, Constitution, judiciary and national government, namely, the Federal Government of Nagaland to serve Naga interest”.
Adinno alleged that there had been two separate abortive coup d’etat in ten years by some Naga opportunists in national service. “The plotters were ensnared by the Indian Intelligence with vast sums of money in return for subverting the authority of the Federal Government of Nagaland”.
Further terming it as an despicable bloody abortive coup d’etat in 1979, the NNC President alleged that under the pretext of saving Naga sovereignty, the plotters and its followers mostly from outside Nagaland still carried on dreaming that it could usurp power by malicious lies and terrorism.
Adinno also alleged that some educated “Naga apologists for the dissidents have in recent years gained an unenviable reputation” of what she termed as blindly following anti-national causes and without having any idea of its consequences.
“There is no excuse for any Naga to feign ignorance of Naga history that has been largely responsible for the misunderstanding of our national stand”, she stated.
Underlining that the Naga National Council (NNC) charted a tolerant Naga society by persuading a diverse Naga communities of their common interest, the NNC leader remarked that the NNC reached out to all “our people and in our best democratic tradition trusted the people to decide Naga political future”. Moreover, she stated that the historic voluntary national plebiscite held on 16 May 1951 dispelled the Indian malicious propaganda that only a “few educated Nagas” insisted on independence.
“The outstanding 99.00 per cent return in favour of Naga independence unequivocally disproved once and for all any doubt on Naga resolve. Thenceforward, the baton of national mandate was immutably entrusted with the Naga National Council”.
