By: AK. Delson, Abonmei Witibo, K. Jangailung
Revolutionaries are not to kill, not to torment, not to oppress upon own and its neighboring people but to defend and safeguard from the enemies and oppressors or alien rulers. Revolutionaries are to preserve own people’s identities-land, cultural, political and religion. Of which our land can neither be created nor destroyed by us or neither make it greater nor smaller, our cultural identity can be diversify and excel it in different ways to the other world through our today’s modern educational technique and it is our duty to do that. And these two identities are the legacies of our forefathers left for us and to be inherited for our younger generations to come and so on.
Yes no doubt religion may change with one’s beliefs and faith according to the time unless he or she is clear about his/her salvation, for instance, earlier we Nagas believes in animism and even today there are many especially among our Zeliangrong people. And politics may also change with the change of our fast growing living world and its system.
In the last 7th consultative meeting held at Hebron Camp organized by the NSCN(IM) many public leaders stood up to speak and reaffirm their solidarity to the Isak and Muivah leadership for the Naga cause. At the same time many of them also says “Enough is enough”.
Now these are few of my questions to Isak Chishi Swu and Th. Muivah. After your coming back here in our homeland (since last 7-8 months) how many prayers and fasting program have you done? How many times have you said “our own sins will defeat us”? (As per the daily news papers). I think in every occasion you have get together with the people (both public and your cadres). Have you acknowledged the sins? How many right justice have you done for the better tomorrow Naga Society? Do you really know the history of each and every Naga tribes (their land and people and the related customary law and orders), especially the Zeliangrong? If yes, have you done any justice accordingly, whether the Intaki case or the Zalukie Zangdi or the land donated matter for your General Headquarters and Council Headquarters, Hebron ? Do you know who the land owner of these Headquarters is? Have you done any justice? No, no, no, no. Not at all. The sin that will defeat you is that injustice to the people and ism within and outside your organization’s authorities and cadres. Have you ever remember and speaks about the sacrifice made by one of the world greatest patriot Jadonang for the Naga people fighting against the British rulers? He was the founder of the ‘Naga Raj’ movement against the foreign aggressors. We have many more else to say but we believe you know much better than us because you are leading our Naga people today. And leaders cannot lead people without knowing the history and its evolution that who have done what and from where and how it started and where and how it will end.
As a Naga, Zeliangrong people are the most ‘divided and ruled’ people even upto these days. Divided and set aside in different states of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland (though living in one geographical range). On top of divided and ruled by the British rulers and then the Indian, today the Naga revolutionary underground government NSCN(IM)/GPRN is also taking the advantage upon the Zeliangrong people being divided and subdivided by the Indian made administration; trying to snatch away all the land and properties. If our land and economy are no more with us what be the use of Naga Sovereignty and its policy programs for the Zeliangrong.
There is no true revolutionary of Naga who stands for the real cause. Neither the NSCN(IM) nor the NSCN(K) because today you all have seen and heard the so called self made justice of NSCN(IM) and the NSCN(K) fails to acknowledge own brothers outside the Nagaland state. Once one of the most popular NSCN(K) leaders Molatanu says in a local daily paper ‘Nagaland Page’ “Nagas of Manipur are slaves of Meiteis and should remain as slaves and are not welcome in the Naga society”, if we were not misinformed it was in the 19th June 2007 publication. And again it learnt that in the Jalukie Zangdi incident one of the NSCN(IM) leaders Bohoto Kiba says that “Jalukie Zangdi does not belong to Zeliangrong but to the Kacharies and Mias”. What does Bohoto knows about Zeliangrong? As the leaders who have suffered for the Naga cause, Isak and Muivah might have the much more knowledge about the Naga History and its politics and also about the Semas and the Tangkhuls being from the particular tribes. But we don’t think they will know the whole thing about the Anal-Lamkang- Maring Nagas, Angami Nagas, Ao Nagas, Rengma Nagas, Mao-Maram-Poumai Nagas, Chakhesang Nagas, Zeliangrong Nagas etc., then their respective community concerned people related to their customary law and order of their land and people. So, why don’t you seek the concern and knowledge of respective community if you really want to deliver justice before the world? Neither we will know more than the respective concerned tribes or community people, we can confess that.
No gain, no rest, no peace for the Zeliangrong if Nagas are to be differentiate as Nagaland Nagas, Manipur Nagas, Assam Nagas and so on. The slogan ‘Enough is enough’ should be for the Zeliangrong people, today and by now itself if Isak and Muivah fails to recognize the land and law and order and history of Zeliangrong people and its movement for the cause of entire Naga. We have halt our ‘Zeliangrong Homeland’ movement under the banner of Zeliangrong People’s Convention (ZPC) of which we were already about to attain our goals to be under one administrative roof. The Zeliangrong people halt it just for the cause and in the interest of the whole Naga freedom movement.
So, my dear Zeliangrong leaders who are in the revolutionaries’ organization what the gain is for the Zeliangrong people even if the so called sovereignty comes for the Nagas. Zeliangrong are divided and subdivided over and all and over and again suppressed by our own revolutionary underground government. Why can’t you say black is black and white is white. Leave the black and take up the white. Don’t we have our political history of self determination? Let us first stand for our ‘Zeliangrong Homeland’. Let us first be under one administrative roof and stand to our own feet and safeguard our particular Zeliangrong land and then help to safeguard our other Naga brethrens in the days comes. As it is said in our traditional sayings “If you find a place to stand, then you will find a place to sit and then to sleep and rest in peace too.” So, let us fight for our feet to stand on. Let the revolutionary spirit and enthusiasm of Jadonang inspired and prevails in the hearts of each and every Zeliangrong people and build our ‘MAKAMGWAGDI’, the unfulfilled dream Homeland of beloved Haipou Jadonang.
ZELIANGRONG! Ring-te-lou!
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