Dimapur, May 2 (MExN): President of NSCN (Reformation), Y Wangtin Naga, today stated that Naga people need real and pragmatic reconciliation before any settlement, or else the future will be a “bed of thorns.”
He appealed to all Naga people to have a “vision for the future.” The Nagas of India side, he stated in a press release today, must “consolidate our position and help the Nagas of Myanmar side to have a peaceful and acceptable solution from Myanmar so that they have their future.”
He asked for all to be “trustworthy Naga citizens” in order to “build our broken home” and “stop attacking and arresting our own brothers.”
Wangtin Naga was speaking in the context of “continuous attacks and arrests” of NSCN (R) workers by the NSCN (IM) and GPRN/NSCN. This despite the fact that the NSCN (R) has extended peace and solidarity with the Naga people for acceptable solution, and it was supporting the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement.
“The NSCN (IM) should know that the NSCN (R) is the only Naga political group that has supported framework agreement signed between NSCN (IM) and Government of India, because the collective leaders of NSCN (R) exercised their wisdom and visualized the future,” reiterated the press note. “After all, it was signed by one Naga political group on behalf of the Naga people.”
However, the NSCN (R) President asserted that the NSCN (IM) is “is one ungrateful organization” that has not “filtered” the situation and taken NSCN (R) as “inimical forces.” The NSCN (R) stated that it will go to any extent for the good of the Nagas but “it will not consume poison.” While asking the two groups to clarify the “attack and arrest of fellow Nagas,” Wangtin Naga maintained that historic deals of “distrust” and lack of cohesiveness among the Nagas in the past is a disease that continues to prevail today. Every single Naga faction has entered into a ceasefire with the GoI but “hatred, jealousy and antagonism” continues in “our day to day system.”
