Dimapur, January 2 (MExN): A message containing New Year wishes from the NSCN/GPRN chairman, Isak Swu has said that after the about 14 years of ceasefire with the Government of India, since 1997 “we have now reached the threshold of achieving our goal.” In fact, the NSCN leader thanked god “for bringing us a step closer” to a ‘free Nagaland.’
“For too long we have allowed our adversaries to take advantage of our shortcomings. We can no longer let them apply their divide and rule policies on us. We have come a long way since signing the first ceasefire agreement in 1997 and we have now reached the threshold of achieving our goal,” Swu stated in his message.
Isak Swu claimed that the “NSCN is founded upon the principles of the teaching of Christ” and “as soldiers in Christ…we are working for his glory, and the liberation of Nagalim.”
“As we usher in a New Year and bid farewell to what has been an eventful one, I would like to urge all Nagas to contribute in whatever way they can to the smooth completion of the reconciliation process and to pledge their solidarity to the ongoing Indo-Naga negotiations.”
The NSCN leader said the Nagas should be a people free from the yoke of separation and a people “living together in Christ-like love.” He said that the people “have to mature” and “we can no longer afford to let petty differences keep us from coming together as a people and claiming what is rightfully ours.”
It is the duty of every individual to participate in the struggle to ‘bring our aspiration to fruition,’ the NSCN leader said. He said in the message – “Let us all prepare our hearts to enter a new year and a new Nagalim with the absolute belief that God is the only fountain of life and from whom, through whom, to whom and for whom all things exist and move.”
In conclusion, the NSCN chairman added, “I would like to thank the good Lord for giving me this opportunity to greet my fellow Nagas and for bringing us a step closer to a free Nagalim.”
