Dimapur, July 5 (MExN): NSCN/GPRN ato kilonser Th. Muivah had a brief meeting at Longkhim with the Sangtam people at Council Hall while returning from Tuensang to Mokokchung. Delivering his message and the purpose of his mission Muivah said that God has a purpose for the Nagas, and therefore, the Nagas must understand each other to solve the Naga political problem. We must decide what is best for the Nagas. We must know our historical rights and be sure of where we are going. If we fail to know our identity and rights we are lost people, he said, informed a press note issued by the MIP.
He reminded the people of the historical fact of the Naga political struggle giving full credit to the NNC when it save the “Naga nation” by taking the right decision at the right time. The decision was not to join the Indian Union after the departure of the British, but Nagas to decide their own future. He said that the Mizos, Khasis, Assamese, Meiteis, Kashmiris and Hyderabad joined the Indian Union. But the Nagas under NNC stood their ground to stay separate as an independent nation.
"Had there been no NNC the Nagas would have been a lost people. I know my history and you must know your history. Meiteis or others are not our masters. We are our own master,"he said.
The MIP also mentioned that Muivah pointed out the mistakes of Nehru. He said Nehru never showed respect to the historical rights of the Nagas. But Nagas stood their ground again to prove Nehru wrong and Nagas were never crushed even after 50 years.
Muivah derided the decision of Nehru in declaring Tuensang as ‘No man’s Land’, which give right to anybody to claim the land. Moreover, the historical blunder of the Shillong Accord was also pointed out in no uncertain term as this became the conflicting turn in Naga political history.
In regard to the accusation made by some church leaders that NSCN was becoming communist, Muivah said NSCN converted more than 50,000 people in Eastern Nagalim to Christianity. He placed the query if the communist people will preach the message of Christianity. According to the MIP, to drive home the point further he said: “We have not gone to China to sell off Christ.”
Muivah shared with the Longkhim people on how he put the challenge before Padmanabhaiah-“until and unless you learn to respect the historical rights of the Nagas there will be no solution”. He also pointed out how he warned Padmanabhaiah not to repeat the mistake of Nehru. The political achievement of the Indo-Naga talks after five years when the Government of India officially recognize the unique history and situation of the Nagas on July 11, 2002 at Amsterdam was explained from the point of its political significance.
