Dimapur, December 15 (MExN): Unity and reconciliation is a must for the Nagas, but without the guidance and blessing of God, the Naga people cannot have real peace and unity in their land, opines an NNC member.
Espousing the need to follow the will of God, ‘Thomas, NNC Member’, in a press statement said that God is protecting and leading the Naga nation till date, however, many Naga people do not understand it, for which the Naga are facing an internal crisis.
“The Almighty God bestowed the sovereignty of Nagaland and therefore, the Nagas had never fallen into foreign domination in the human history,” declared Thomas. Giving the rationale of his thought, Thomas said that some educated Nagas attempted to sell out ‘God given sovereignty’ while some attempted to lead the Nagas on ‘his’ own will and tried to impose ‘his’ own plan or ideology on the Naga people.
In this regard, Thomas strongly asserted that during the past 27 years since the formation of the ‘so-called’ NSCN, the Naga people have suffered immensely at the hands of NSCN cadres as “some imposters and renegade leaders tried to impose socialism on Naga people”. “The Naga leaders and civilian population who wanted to preserve the age-old Naga traditional democracy were eliminated by them. Thus, they destroyed hundreds of homes and killed thousands of Nagas,” said Thomas. He added that ‘they’ are trying to barter out God given sovereignty with an autonomous state within the Indian Union, which they claimed “a special federal relationship with India”. Thomas claimed that soon after the formation of the NSCN, “God spoke” to ‘renegade leaders’ through an NSCN lady and also through Evangelist Athiu ‘to stop killing and rejoin the Naga National Council.’
Consequently, the NSCN split into two factions in 1988 and killing among them is still unabated, reasoned Thomas. In this context, Thomas asserted that “another split took place once again in November 2007 and more killing may happen at any time”.
“This is the fact that God is truly working against them because they disobeyed the word of God,” preached the NNC member.
Lamenting that the Naga people do not acknowledge that God is leading the Naga nation under the banner of the NNC and FGN, Thomas asserted that God brought Peace to Nagaland in 1964 and again in 1975, God restored peace in Nagaland when Indian Government resorted to destroy the Nagas with her armed might re-escalated war from 1972.
“However, the renegade leaders rejected God given peace and led the Nagas in the blood path,” he said.
The NNC member said that it has been their experience that some of the Naga people have ignored the way in which God is leading the ‘our nation’ and rejected the God given peace, besides committing heinous crimes and involving in all kinds of evil activities.
Saying that these people instead of admitting their mistakes are justifying their misdeeds, Thomas said that it is time for them to abandon such evil practices and follow the path of God.
Thomas said that God given peace and sovereignty should be valued so that the people can have peace and work together for the achievement of ‘national goals’.
“Unity and reconciliation is a must for the Nagas. But without the guidance and blessing of God we cannot have real peace and unity,” said Thomas.
