Dimapur, July 4 (MExN): Observing that Nagas from “Eastern” Nagaland are denied human and political rights, the NSCN-IM’s MIP has released a book “Naga homeland in danger: The politics of constitution in Myanmar. The book was released by NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chishi Swu at Hebron during the first-day session of the organization’s joint council meeting.
According to the MIP, the book is a vivid account of the plight of Nagas in “Eastern Nagalim” under Myanmar divided by the British from “Western” Nagaland in total violation of the Nagas’ right to exist as one political body. “The manner of exploitation against the Nagas is nothing but unfair and inhuman as the boundary (is) made to run through villages, fields and even homes” an MIP issue noted.
The “political plight of the Nagas and gross injustice being done to the Nagas by the successive governments in Myanmar can no longer be tolerated by the Nagas in general and the NSCN in particular, the organization stated. This is the reason why the MIP has brought out the book to expose to the whole world on what the military junta is doing to further divide the Naga homeland, it stated.
The MIP informed that “This book is to drive home the point that the world should no longer remain silent to the act of treacherous imposition by slicing away Nagas’ land in the guise of creating a Naga state but which excludes most important townships and mineral-rich areas.”
The book also exposes the condition of the “Eastern” Nagas under the coercive control of the Myanmar military junta; the junta continues to commit excessive human rights violations the NSCN-IM stated. “The book point out the dirty politics or game plan of drafting a new constitution putting the Nagas at the receiving end” the MIP stated.
The NSCN-IM also mentioned the “storm of controversy is national convention.” What the convention is, its implication on the Nagas, how the land and resources are being destroyed in the name of development etc can be found out in the book, it stated. “Importantly, the book is worth gold in pushing forward the Nagas’ aspiration for homeland now divided across two countries, sub-divided under different state controls and facing further division in eastern Nagalim” it added.
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