Dimapur, February 1 (MExN): The KUM - Konyak Union (Myanmar) today said that it will not accept fencing of “our field land,” where the people had been living since time immemorial after being “conquered by our own ancestors.”
We are living neither in India nor Myanmar land, implied a press release from issued on behalf of Eastern Konyak Naga People (Myanmar) by the KUM General Secretary, K Akham Honwang.
It further argued that there was no legal ‘demarcation between so-called Free Movement Regime (FMR)’ and only in 1970s, the border was demarcated aerially by India and Myanmar.
However, the public had settlement and the ownership of the border areas before the formation of India or Myanmar, it said.
India and Myanmar keep the borderline just an agreement and do not know where the pillars were located territory, the release claimed, adding that army personnel used to force to public to show the pillars.
Further, it noted that when the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement was signed between NSCN (IM) and Government of India, Eastern or Myanmar area were waiting to see that “India will give honourable solution for Naga separately...”
“However, framework agreement included Nagaland Naga, Manipur Naga, Arunachal Pradesh Naga and Assam but the Naga political group kept Eastern Naga area for another century and after settle three states Naga development,” it regretted. ‘The Myanmar Naga people feel sad that the unfortunate framework agreement was done by ignoring the Myanmar Naga area as well as people,” it added.
Accordingly, the KUM stated that various “Naga National workers, NSCN/GPRN (IM), (K) and Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) should ponder on the FMR issues.”
The ideology of the founder of Naga national movement was to bring all the “Naga land and people together and create a Naga country,” it added.
If Nagas are living in different administrative are using names such as Indian or Myanmar Naga, it is not a Naga’s country name but people dividing themselves, it added.
According to the KUM, the recent proposal by the Government of India (GoI) to abolish the FMR is a test to examine whether Naga wants to live together or is willing to be divided among different country and in different administrations. It is also a test of Naga National workers and NPGs as to whether they are fighting for whole Naga or for their own benefit.
In this connection, the KUM General Secretary called upon all Naga leaders, NGOs and NPGs to voice out against any move to abolish the FMR and endorsed NSCN-K (Niki) leader,Gen (retired) Niki Sumi recent statement for unity among the Nagas to deal ‘practically’ with the issue.
It is the sole responsibility of all Naga leaders and they must decide practically to defend the land and peoples, he maintained.
To live free from others and in peace with neighbouring country (India and Myanmar), Nagas should work together instead of disunity , he added.
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