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Fire and water don’t mix
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morungexpress on May 28, 2012 08:25:00
 
NSCN/Khaplang (K) Group, a frontline Naga Organization, signed a ceasefire
agreement with Burma/Myanmar. The Naga International Support Center
congratulates all in K with this long awaited détente between the Burmese and
self proclaimed Naga Governments.
It’s a milestone in Naga history and potentially a great achievement!
Potentially yes, so why should NISC feel and share its apprehension?
Two main reasons:
1 – K did not mention the Nagas who will soon. quite literally, go under
water because an enormous hydro-electric dam is going to be built which
inundates a vast area of Nagaland Burma on the Chindwin River near the small
town of Tamanthi . (See our former release for more detailed info on this Indian
financed project). K however has not issued a statement on what looks like a
disastrous development for his people or has not shown this development was
discussed was discussed during the talks for a ceasefire.
2 - K knows or could and should know that, although a civil government is busy
relaxing the harsh and severe measures of the military junta and is opening up
to become a just society of law and order, perhaps even a democracy, he also
knows that the military generals hold the strings still. The renewed war against
the Kachin, neighbors of the Nagas, shows this, even though the new civilian
government tries its best to negotiate with the Kachins to end this war. K also
knows that all other Indigenous Peoples of what is now called Myanmar have been
victimized during the regime of the generals and that their role did not stop
with the coming of the new government.
So, NISC congratulates but also asks the leaders of the Khaplang group,
Khaplang himself and Mulatonu:
-  to show K is the true representative of the Nagas in Myanmar,
-  to show it is behind the aspirations of the thousands of  the affected Nagas
of the Indian Tamanthi hydro-electric project.
A Naga International Support Center,
NISC www.nagalim.nl
A human rights organization