Dimapur, February 28 (MExN): The Sumi Hoho iterates again support to Naga unification to bring all warring factions under one “political organization” so the bloodshed and fratricidal killings are stopped. A note form the Sumi Hoho president Hokishi Yepthomi made reflections over the entire issue. According to him “gen” Zuheto Swu stated in his “patriot day” speech on August 4, 2001 that from 1954-1964 485 Naga cadres were killed by the Indian security forces. These can be called patriots “because they ere killed by the enemy for the cause” the hoho president asserted. While asserting that the period between 1964 and 1990 was a “silent feature” where peace prevailed, the hoho president stated that in 1990 “another new political dimension” took place. This led to factionalism and Naga underground were engaged in fighting each other. “We professed ‘Nagaland for Christ’ but taking the name of Christ fratricidal killing started unabated. He Nagas claimed that thousands and thousands were sacrificed their lives for our motherland and called them as patriot? I would say we are murderers. No patriot will kill his own brothers” he stated.
Further, reflecting over “revolutionary history” that “there has been always two groups struggle for sovereignty” the Sumi Hoho president referred to the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks in feudal Russia. He also referred to Mahatma Gandhi. “But we Nagas through our ultimate goal is same ‘sovereignty’ then why we fought among ourselves in the name of sovereignty” he lamented. But there is “political salvation,” Yepthomi asserted, and this is through unification of all the Naga underground factions. Through this “peace and prosperity will prevail” in Nagaland, he maintained. “We have to choose between bloodshed and peace. If we want to live in peace and harmony, we have no other option than unification of all factions” he reminded.
