The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) taking the opportunity of this mammoth gathering (Integration Rally) of the Naga peoples reaffirms our strong commitment towards striving for the unification of all Naga areas. NPMHR believes that the unification of all Naga people and their ancestral lands into one political entity is a natural fundamental necessity.
NPMHR acknowledges that the present physical barrier imposed upon the Naga people and their ancestral homeland is one of the main causes of our physical and emotional separation. This environment has further accentuated the emergence of divergence in ideas, perception and of division (conflict). Therefore in order for the Naga people to determine our future together we must come together physically, emotionally and spiritually with a united purpose.
Any political settlement arrived at between the Government of India and the Naga people must involve removing the arbitrary state imposed boundaries that stand in the way of the Nagas exercising their natural and inherent rights as one political entity. It is imperative that unification of Naga homeland must form the minimum basis for any lasting settlement to take place.
Our land is our life and we owe it to our generations to come to prudently solve it without compromising the ancestral heritage left to us by our ancestors. NPMHR firmly believes in the unity of land and people.
NPMHR reaffirms the right of the Naga people to live as one geo-political entity and that the unification of Naga areas is inalienable towards Nagas exercising their sovereign rights as any respectable nation and people on earth.
Kuknalim!
Nepuni Piku,
Secretary General NPMHR
31st August 2005, Kohima
