Dimapur : The chairman of the NSCN (IM) today said to have asserted that “we rule out violent means” and rather, dialogue should be engaged to solving issues. The statement comes in the wake of yesterday’s reported statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram expressing reservations on the “unending ceasefire” with the outfit and that it has “gone on for too long”.
According to a copy of Isak Chishi Swu’s speech on the outfit’s “raising day”, received here, he also condemned “any attempt at settlement of the issue through military might”. This approach has proved a futile exercise, he said. “This is the era of democracy and we are committed to settlement of all human problems through dialogue based on mutual respect, understanding and recognition of rights. We also believe that there is no problem, which we cannot solve through discussions” Swu’s speech said.
The outfit’s chairman also observed that “whether the Naga people want to join the Union of India or that of Myanmar or be free, it is their divine right to decide it by themselves”. “In the matter of approach to the confronting problem, NSCN is deeply committed to political solution and we will continue to do so” Swu stated. Saying that “we” are not “begging freedom from India or Myanmar or for that matter from any others”, Swu asserted that the freedom of a people “is inbuilt and it is our inherent right” and “we are not asking territory from any other states”.
The NSCN (IM) leader said “we have our own territory inherited from our fathers” and the “good Lord has created the earth for all, big or small and even the smallest animal and nation have their own share in it”. He expressed belief in what he called the ‘inter-dependent relationship’ of people and nations in as much as everything on earth “is inter-related and nothing stands in isolation”. The NSCN (IM) leader said “we” do not “nourish enmity towards any of our neighbors particularly India and Myanmar”. Rather, he claimed, “we have been good neighbors” from time immemorial and “we will continue to maintain that spirit”.
Source: MORUNG EXPRESS
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Violence bears no fruit; Let us reconcile, says Khaplang
Dimapur : On its 29th “raising day”, NSCN (K) chairman SS Khaplang has said that violence and confrontational activities bear no seed for solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political problem. Reaching to “my Naga comrades” Isak Chishi Swu, Kholie, Th. Muivah, Khodao Yanthan and others, Khaplang queried if, even in old age, “shall we not learn from years of unrewarding internal conflict?” Khaplang had these words in a copy of his speech received here. He said “infighting only devalues the political right of the Nagas”.
Khaplang said “We must reconcile first with our own hearts and extend the same to others. A single reconciliatory action is worth a hundred paper proclamations for peace” Khaplang said while urging fellow Naga leaders not to stamp “our pages with contempt, hatred and vengeful inclinations towards our fellow brothers”. What future Nagas inherit from “us” tomorrow is more important than what “we do to destroy each other today”.
Recalling the division and violent past of the Nagas’ political history, SS Khaplang said “we as national leaders failed to stem the rot and differences of opinion gave way to suspicion, discontentment, hatred and finally further bloody division within the Naga family”. This has been the greatest misery and nemesis of the Nagas, he lamented.
Urging that the slogan “Nagaland for Christ” should rule “our hearts and deeds as well”, Khaplang said the greatest question before the Nagas today is whether “we” are prepared to seek a common future for the sake of the Naga children. “Are we prepared to seek a common future for the sake of our children or continue to hunt each other with vengeful hearts? The responsibility for tragic episodes in Naga history must be equally shared by all leaders. No one is blameless. God alone is our judge. Justification is poor statesmanship at this hour because thousands of witnesses could still recount the horrors endured” he asserted in his speech.
SS Khaplang appealed to the representatives of the entire Naga family; the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, the Naga Hoho and its federating hohos, GBs and GB’s forum, ENPO, NSF, NPMHR, NMA, churches and other Naga NGO’s and civil societies to continue the noble work of restoring peace, reconciliation and unity in the land of the Nagas, “so that we share a secure and respectable future”.
Source: MORUNG EXPRESS
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According to a copy of Isak Chishi Swu’s speech on the outfit’s “raising day”, received here, he also condemned “any attempt at settlement of the issue through military might”. This approach has proved a futile exercise, he said. “This is the era of democracy and we are committed to settlement of all human problems through dialogue based on mutual respect, understanding and recognition of rights. We also believe that there is no problem, which we cannot solve through discussions” Swu’s speech said.
The outfit’s chairman also observed that “whether the Naga people want to join the Union of India or that of Myanmar or be free, it is their divine right to decide it by themselves”. “In the matter of approach to the confronting problem, NSCN is deeply committed to political solution and we will continue to do so” Swu stated. Saying that “we” are not “begging freedom from India or Myanmar or for that matter from any others”, Swu asserted that the freedom of a people “is inbuilt and it is our inherent right” and “we are not asking territory from any other states”.
The NSCN (IM) leader said “we have our own territory inherited from our fathers” and the “good Lord has created the earth for all, big or small and even the smallest animal and nation have their own share in it”. He expressed belief in what he called the ‘inter-dependent relationship’ of people and nations in as much as everything on earth “is inter-related and nothing stands in isolation”. The NSCN (IM) leader said “we” do not “nourish enmity towards any of our neighbors particularly India and Myanmar”. Rather, he claimed, “we have been good neighbors” from time immemorial and “we will continue to maintain that spirit”.
Source: MORUNG EXPRESS
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Violence bears no fruit; Let us reconcile, says Khaplang
Dimapur : On its 29th “raising day”, NSCN (K) chairman SS Khaplang has said that violence and confrontational activities bear no seed for solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political problem. Reaching to “my Naga comrades” Isak Chishi Swu, Kholie, Th. Muivah, Khodao Yanthan and others, Khaplang queried if, even in old age, “shall we not learn from years of unrewarding internal conflict?” Khaplang had these words in a copy of his speech received here. He said “infighting only devalues the political right of the Nagas”.
Khaplang said “We must reconcile first with our own hearts and extend the same to others. A single reconciliatory action is worth a hundred paper proclamations for peace” Khaplang said while urging fellow Naga leaders not to stamp “our pages with contempt, hatred and vengeful inclinations towards our fellow brothers”. What future Nagas inherit from “us” tomorrow is more important than what “we do to destroy each other today”.
Recalling the division and violent past of the Nagas’ political history, SS Khaplang said “we as national leaders failed to stem the rot and differences of opinion gave way to suspicion, discontentment, hatred and finally further bloody division within the Naga family”. This has been the greatest misery and nemesis of the Nagas, he lamented.
Urging that the slogan “Nagaland for Christ” should rule “our hearts and deeds as well”, Khaplang said the greatest question before the Nagas today is whether “we” are prepared to seek a common future for the sake of the Naga children. “Are we prepared to seek a common future for the sake of our children or continue to hunt each other with vengeful hearts? The responsibility for tragic episodes in Naga history must be equally shared by all leaders. No one is blameless. God alone is our judge. Justification is poor statesmanship at this hour because thousands of witnesses could still recount the horrors endured” he asserted in his speech.
SS Khaplang appealed to the representatives of the entire Naga family; the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, the Naga Hoho and its federating hohos, GBs and GB’s forum, ENPO, NSF, NPMHR, NMA, churches and other Naga NGO’s and civil societies to continue the noble work of restoring peace, reconciliation and unity in the land of the Nagas, “so that we share a secure and respectable future”.
Source: MORUNG EXPRESS
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