Dimapur, August 23 (MExN): The Naga Intellectual Forum on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting remedial measures to revive the Indo-Naga peace process.
“As a conflict lingers longer, so would the magnitude of damages grow. Delay compounds problems,” the forum’s Convenor Worthington Mahung said in the representation.
It also claimed that the present deadlock is “the culmination of unbridled monopoly of the whole gamut of negotiation” by the incumbent Interlocutor RN Ravi on one hand, and “deprivation of a political expert to the peace process,” on the other.
Among others, it claimed that Ravi’s “rancorous” remarks against the NSCN (IM) in 2014, even before he was appointed as Interlocutor “had already instilled mutual distrust.” It also alleged that “emergence of various newly formed groups and organizations within the Nagas, aligning and realigning themselves with differing opinions,” were “a premediated move of artful luring and instigation” by Ravi to neutralize and wipe out a common Naga political cause. “All this coincides with his short term as an Interlocutor as compared to minimal such occurrences in the previous other Interlocutors term,” it contended.
It also alleged that Ravi’s term as Interlocutor saw “drastic rise in increased militarization” to instill ‘fear psychosis,’ while adding that his “willful manipulation of the contents of the 2015 Framework Agreement” was “aggressively deceptive.”
As such, it viewed that Ravi lacked the “basic traits” for a good Interlocutor, and urged the centre to replace the incumbent Interlocutor.
“In case the Government of India intends to continue in engaging him as the Interlocutor, it can only mean the deliberate intention on the part of GoI to suppress the Naga Political issue,” it said.
