DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): Convener, Steering Committee of the NSCN (IM), Rh Raising has stated that this is the “time of unity for all Nagas in the declared political line of the people with one decision, one voice, one mind, one spirit and one faith.”
Speaking at the Joint Council Meeting on Indian and Burmese Colonialism, held on October 6, Raising stated that the Naga people have spent enough time talking only about the past overlooking the present and the future. “It is the time to focus on the present and the future. Our decision today will determine our tomorrow. All Nagas unite in the political and historical lines we come from,” he asserted.
Referring to the Framework Agreement, Raising hoped that “all the rational Nagas understand the reality that the Nagas are now placed in a safe and secure position by the Framework Agreement.”
“The Framework Agreement recognizes the sovereign right of the Nagas. It has recognized the unique identity and the history of the Nagas. It has also recognized the territory of the Nagas by stating that Nagas are the owner of their land. It is also mutually agreed upon that integration of all Naga territories is the legitimate right of the Nagas.
However, it further states that for bringing an honorable and acceptable solution to both parties, co-existence of the two entities and share sovereignty of the two entities are mutually agreed,” Raising informed on the contents of the agreement.
He assured that the Framework Agreement will be “our political wall that protects our land, our identity, our rights, our culture, our history and our future from all impending dangers of hostile raging waves roaring against the Nagas on the one hand and it will also be a strong durable bridge between India and Nagalim on the other.”
Nagas will decide their future by themselves, not by others anymore; he stated, and added that “Hebron will be the Centre of Naga politics, government, culture, civilization and the seat of their high command.”
Raising said that the agreement has “opened up a new era for the Nagas.” “We are now setting our foot in the stage of era of building our world.”
He noted that time has come for the “era of building the infrastructures of a social system for creation of a positive social environment, scientific education system for production of generations of scientists in different fields, material and spiritual developments of our land and people, building industries for massive productions, marketing, trade and commerce for generation of revenues and others for making our country a land of peace and progress.”
He further stated it is time to build the “damaged psychology of our people; it is the time of building relationship with our neighbors; it is the time of reconciliation with India; it is the time to go to the house of the Lord and praise and worship the Creator of Nagalim.”
The steering committee convener meanwhile noted that the waves of Indian and Burmese colonialism in Nagalim have been “covertly or overtly wrecking the land, the mind and the culture of the Nagas without ceasing.” The Indian and the Burmese states have already established their political out posts in Nagalim in the guise of development and security threat, he added.
Stating that “the forces of colonialism are rampant everywhere in Nagalim,” Raising cautioned that “if we do not take strong political and legal steps to check them today, our children will face insurmountable problem from them tomorrow.”
He further stated that “status and money-monger politicians don’t care for the future of their people,” and added that arbitrary creation of puppet states and governments is one of the main policies the colonial powers pursue for subduing the weaker peoples and nations.
“Planting a state with its machineries to controlling peoples is the most effective instrument of the colonial power. To cite a few examples- the so-called Nagaland state in India and the Naga self-rule government in Burma embracing only a small chunk of Naga territories and few populations are pure acts of colonialism. A large chunk of Naga territories has been snatched away and annexed by the Burmese government through such kind of colonial policy.
The Nagas will be reduced to a negligible minority or become foreigners in their own land before long if they do not work out an honorable solution with the government of Burma before it is too late,” he said.
He further pointed to “colonization of Nagalim through Indian political parties” as another “established policy of the Government of India,” and viewed that “all Indian political parties are Delhi-oriented which always stands diametrically opposed to the concept of Naga nation.”
He meanwhile said that the Naga people’s future “is not in the Indian constitution.” Nagas, he stated, “are desperately in need of an agreement with the Government of India and Burma that can save their future.”
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