Mokokchung, June 17 (MTNews): The NSCN (IM) on Friday said that it has to state its position loud and clear to the people “in view of the unrelenting attack on the Naga national political issue by some people from different quarters”.
In a press statement issued on Friday by Rh. Raising, Member of Collective Leadership and Care-taker, Ministry of Kilo Affairs, it was mentioned that “Every sensible Naga, even friends and foes understands that the case of the Nagas is a national resistance movement against the aggressor-states. It is neither a secessionist movement nor a domestic problem of India as wantonly propagated by the aggressors.” “Recognize it or not by the aggressors, Nagas are also a nation among nations. The Naga nation is our identity and our belongingness and no one should doubt about it,” it said.
“Solution of the problem will come only when it is viewed from the correct perspective. The crux of the Indo-Naga problem is GOI not dealing with the issue in the manner that demands political solution,” the statement further read. It added that “seeking political solution from the Indian constitutional perspective is tantamount to giving a wrong treatment to a patient.”
Maintaining that people and their land are inseparable, it said, people and their rights, identity, culture, history, politics and religion are also inseparably interwoven. It added that “we must live as Nagas, speak as Nagas, act as Nagas and die as Nagas”.
The NSCN(IM) asserted that the Nagas began their “resistance movement from their unshakable rock of national principle and that it will conclude there,” adding that the “Naga state should come from the Naga principle.”
The NSCN(IM) further stressed that there is no early solution or delayed solution “as some people talk of” and said that all solutions are naturally principle-based. “The past agreements or accords could not bring solution in our land because they were not principle-based,” it said, further adding that the Nagas should not repeat their “past mistakes.”