Dimapur, August 15 (MExN): While the already 60 years’ old Naga declaration for independence is ‘very much alive’ today, the people are not free, the Naga International Support Center insists. The NISC has urged the United Nations to ‘repair’ what was undone for 60 years, the Naga issue.
“As the celebrations of the Naga Peoples are gaining momentum and the people throughout the Naga Hills joyously feast their independence from Great Britain, they know very well they are not free” observed a statement from NISC.
“The Naga International Support Center calls on the international community, the international press and Media and all human rights organizations, to, on the basis of its own covenant urge the United Nations to look into the Indo-Naga conflict seriously and to repair what has been left undone for some 60 years now” it stated. The NISC asked to let the Nagas determine their own future and make sure that those who have occupied their land for so long will leave in peace.
The NISC lamented that although the United Nations acknowledged the declaration of “independence” on August 14, 1947, ‘it did not act upon it.’ It explained that consequently India interpreted this as “that it could annex Nagaland.” Later, after some preliminary negotiated steps, leading to the rejected 9 point agreement and in 1954 Jawaharlal Nehru decided to invade Naga Hills and declared ‘no-man’s land’ because the Naga Peoples did not submit to the Indian Armed Forces but instead defended against the aggression.
“The international community headed by the United Nations did not intervene but concluded that this war was a domestic conflict. Till today the United Nations has remained tacit as it did not elaborate officially on granting or denying the Nagas and other peoples of the Northeast of India the full independence they deserve” the NISC asserted.
“The Naga International Support Center stresses that this incongruence in thinking and acting has led to much oppression and resulted in anguish, torture, rape and outright murder and concludes that this sore on the flesh of mankind should be addressed properly” the NISC added.
