DIMAPUR, MARCH 21 (MExN): On the occasion of the 26th Republic day celebration of the NSCN (IM)/GPRN, the Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights through it’s General Secretary Nepuni Piku saluted “all those who courageously stood up for the truth for our national survival with clarity and sustained the struggle against all odds for the past many years.”
“The determination and sacrifices have demonstrated that the spirit of freedom and the desire for peace based on justice cannot be crushed despite the endless chain of challenges, defeat and victories,” he said during the function.
Reiterating their commitment to work towards “a just and sustainable peace settlement which will embrace the rights and aspiration of our people,” Nepuni said present day was the time for all Nagas throughout “the length and breadth of Naga homeland to be united in our purpose and to stand together as we embark on this difficult journey towards agreement - seeking peaceful accommodation of difference between Nagas and India and amongst Nagas- ourselves side by side.”
Giving the analogy of a frog who quickly hops out if put into a pot of boiling water but realizes his death only gradually if it is put at room temperature and heated slowly, he said, “The truth is that the dangers to which we are most vulnerable are generally not the sudden dramatic, obvious ones.
They are the ones that creep up on us, that are so much a part of our environment that we don’t even notice them. This analogy can be in someway sometime reflexive of the Naga people’s situation.”
The NPMHR is determined that “the injustice which created this conflict will be removed and are confident in the strength and justice of our struggle to achieve it.”
