Dimapur, August 13 (MExN): NNC president Dr. Senka Yaden extends greetings on what was stated in a message to be “63rd Naga national independence day.” The NNC president has called for rededication and “renew the pledge which we have made to our nation 63 years ago.”
According to the NNC leader the “basic and main democratic right of the Nagas which cannot be undo or done away by anybody or any country rather the main occupier of our land will officially recognize their right of the Nagas sooner or later because the Naga people will always stand on this solid right of the Nagas.”
“The Naga political history will remain as it is forever as long as the problem of occupation is not solved amicably and honorably before the problem become bigger and bigger to explode at the very last moment. And this will be very unfortunate in the region,” he stated.
Therefore, he said, “before the political situation goes out of hand, the inalienable rights of the Naga People's sovereignty is recognized by both the Government of India and Myanmar.”
The NNC also must make clear that the people do not recognize the boundary lines “arbitrarily demarcated by both India and Burma that have invaded the homeland of the Nagas at different periods of our political history.”
“The political history of the Naga people itself is unique and therefore not one of secession or that of separation from the Union of India or Burma. Till date half of our land and people are free indeed. Even today also the Naga inhabited areas of free eastern Nagaland remain free and independent and administering the areas by the Nagas themselves,” he claimed. The NNC said it “always stand for the whole and all the Naga inhabited areas that is inclusive of all the free eastern Nagaland and will never part with them because from the very inception of our politics, the NNC declared all the Naga people as one and independent.”
“And we have fought together, worked together and suffered and suffering together till date. Therefore, the NNC will never part with our free Eastern People even if some people exclude them in their political talk,” Senka explained.
The NNC message also stated that the Naga political issue was never and ever a law and order issue of ‘any country or countries’. The core political problem is aggression and invasion of Nagaland by India and Burma (Myanmar) military forces, Senka said.
“Therefore, on this national day of ours, let us rededicate ourselves and renew the pledge which we have made to our nation 63 years ago. It will be only a curse and doom for those who try to undo and change the political rights and history of the Nagas which is made and done with thousands and thousands of Naga lives in particular.”
On reconciliation, Senka said that any talk of reconciliation and unity of the Naga political groups in the Naga homeland at this juncture must be “inclusive of all in reality otherwise the exercise will be incomplete and the results will be disastrous.”
He has advised all “political groups” to be broad-minded enough to include each and every group “in the Naga national unity” in the best interest of the Naga people “for freedom.”
The message added that the NNC is the political foundation of all the Nagas ‘far and wide’ and adopts the best “political policy of a non-violent stand.”
“And without NNC and its historical and political rights no person or political group can do anything. The grassroots (villagers) are the NNC and NNC is the basis of freedom for the Naga people. As the parent body it has done everything politically for the Naga people,” he added.
