Dimapur, January 14 (MExN): The Naga Hoho said it is amazed to learn that the Government of India has imposed restriction on the movement of Isak Chishi Swu and Th.Muivah in Nagaland. In doing so, the Naga Hoho said that the Government of India has “once again hurt the sentiments of Naga people.”
In letter addressed to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today, the Naga Hoho President Keviletuo Kiewhuo, Federal Assembly Speaker HK Zhimomi and General Secretary P Chuba Ozukum said, “we are amazed to learn that the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India have once again hurt the sentiments of Naga people owing to restriction imposed upon the movement of Isak Chishi Swu and Th.Muivah in Nagaland.”
Asserting that it has become imperative on the part of Leaders to meet people in different levels to appraise the ongoing Indo-Naga political talks and reconciliation process among the Nagas, the Naga Hoho said that the Collective Leaders are not “political prisoners” but striving towards bringing amicable solution to the vexed Indo-Naga political problems.
The Naga Hoho on behalf of the people of Nagaland has appealed to the Union Home Minister to revoke the restriction order and allow the Collective Leaders to move around their native place so as to ensure smooth sailing of Indo-Naga peace process without confrontation.
The ‘Naga International Support Center’ (NISC) also denounces the Government of India for ‘prohibiting’ leaders of the NSCN/GPRN from visiting Zunheboto. The NISC said to have received a “disturbing report” from what it called the “government of Nagalim” disallowing the NSCN/GPRN’s leaders from proceeding to Zunheboto.
“As far as the Nagas can comprehend this restriction of movement in their own land told to retired general Atem by a representative of the Government of Nagaland state: ‘the situation around Zunheboto is not stable, not safe, and so we cannot allow the Naga leader and their entourage to proceed to Zunheboto’”, a press release from the NISC stated today.
Last year, the NISC narrated, on his way to his home village in Manipur, the general secretary of NSCN/GPRN-Isak/Muivah was “stopped and troubled” when Manipur soldiers opened fire “on the crowd around Muivah and killed innocent students.”
“Although NISC knows the opposing Meitei feared the Nagas of Manipur would get a boost of confidence by the visit of their paramount leader, it still was an infringement of human rights. But in Nagaland the situation is entirely because Zunheboto is in Nagaland State and the leaders do not cross borders; and they have their own protection with them. So, at the negotiating table the Government of India talks peace on the highest level while, away from the table, prohibits, restricts and arrests.”
The NISC “encourages politicians and journalists” to demand clarity and question “the policy or the absence of policies of the government of India on the northeast in general and the Naga nation in particular.”
