Dimapur, January 4 (MExN): At a time when the world is moving towards rapid “global communitisation” by breaking physical and ideological barriers, the Governments of India and Myanmar are resorting to “despotic imposition” of a physical wall between families that have lived together since ancient times.
The NSCN (K) today stated this through a press release from its MIP terming the move to fence the Indo-Naga-Myanmar international border that has been “undertaken jointly by Indian Army and Myanmar Army at the heart of Naga settlement” as “totally against the wishes of the Nagas.” For this, it informed, Nagas have neither been consulted nor any consent acquired at any stage.
Thus, the NSCN (K) maintained that it will “explore every means and ways either peaceful or otherwise to thwart further forcible division of our motherland, homes and families in the hands of the colonizing forces.”
Blatant disregard for subjected people
“To accentuate 1953 Nehru-U Nu arbitrary partition of Naga country and to keep the Nagas divided and marginalized permanently, the physical barrier is being instituted,” the NSCN (K) stated.
Instead of “making amends to the great injustice perpetrated” against the Naga people, the two governments are “solidifying the imaginary borderline that runs in the middle of one’s hearth and tearing apart the one same family into two country,” noted the group that broke ceasefire with the Government of India after the latter was unable to begin peace talks.
The NSCN (K) reiterated that this attitude of the two governments “clearly demonstrates the blatant disregard to the sentiments of the subjected people and defies the very ideals of humanity, international peace and security the two great democracies underhandedly are trying to promote in the global arena.”
The Governments of India and Myanmar have been trying out several collaborative exercises to bring peace to the region. According to local groups, however, more instability has risen out from these exercises.
“Contrary to regional peace and stability interests in the long porous border regions and SE-Asia, the relentless Indo-Myanmar policies and conspiracies to illegally divide and suppress the Nagas will only prove anti-thesis and is resulting in the resurgence of even the dormant spirited Nagas to challenge the threat emanating from this deliberate and heinous programs of physical partitioning,” explained the NSCN (K).
It warned that the “passions and patriotic fervor” of the Nagas across the borders is “running high and spill over may occur any moment.”
“It is not a mere obligation but a bounden duty of every Naga citizen to rise to the occasion and assert the rights which is inherent,” it affirmed.
