“Throw me into the sea and the storm will calm down. I know it is my fault that you are caught in this violent storm” (Jonah 1:12)
Kohima, April 20 (MExN): The NBCC Peace Committee met last Wednesday and Thursday to review the current situation in the state and modulated a ‘bold and honest’ acceptance of moral responsibility of the kind shown by biblical Jonah as the urgent need to heal the wound in the land.
The committee opined that both underground and over-ground political organizations, who are supposed to wield power and authority has lost their respective capacities to control the ‘multi-headed monster’ of corruption and lawlessness.
The result is destruction of Nagas by Nagas which now seems unstoppable, and this is the simple explanation of the disappearance of the earlier distinction between the Naga underground and over-ground because they have come to share the same values and interests, it stated.
However, NBCC said that the leaders alone can not be blamed. “We all have helped in our different ways to bring about the present moral, spiritual and political bankruptcy resulting in the birth of the monster mentioned”, said a release issued by its Director, Rev L Kari Longchar.
The recent killings in Mon, Zunheboto, Athibung, Kohima, Dimapur, Medziphema, Sirhima, Bade, Mokokchung and other places are the clearest manifestations of the takeover of the Naga society by the ‘same monster’, the statement also said.
‘NBCC believes that the best service the Naga churches can give to our leaders at this dangerous hour is to provide a trusted platform to the people to encourage them to ‘freely express what they believe is true and right’ so that the ‘voice and conscience of the public will be heard by the leaders, the statement said. It also said that if the leaders will wisely respond to the people the way will be shown to them to achieve honourable reconciliation. With reconciliation and acceptance of one another the search for a political settlement acceptable to all Nagas will become productive, Kari also stated, adding that the church is developing a modality to get the people to help the leaders.
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