KOHIMA, FEBRUARY 23 (MExN): The NNC has informed that it will document “atrocities committed against the Naga people” during the Naga struggle.
A press release from the NNC and FGN described the initiative as “a Naga national undertaking of collective memory in remembering and recording the atrocities.” It added that the process would remember “the lives of individuals who selflessly and voluntarily gave their resources, who gave their life-long years of inimitable services to serve the people and who made the supreme sacrifice and laid down their lives for the national cause.”
The statement said this documentation is “a responsibility we owe to the generation of our parents, our grandparents, to ourselves, and to the next generation as a commitment to our struggle, to freedom and to human dignity, because when people stop telling stories, a nation ceases to exist.”
It further stated that the undertaking will be coordinated and carried out with the support and involvement of all Nagas, “young and old, and with the participation of the village-republics in every region of the Naga country.”
Describing the initiative as “our bounden duty,” the statement added, “God is our witness and guide. May God give us the courage, tenacity and integrity to honour the truth.”
