Dimapur, March 19 (MExN): NSCN-K Kilonser AZ Jami asserts that a time will come when posterity will know of the Naga that made the “greatest sacrifice” in the Naga struggle and “who is who.”
Reflecting on AZ Phizo, Jami stated that there is no denying the first president of the NNC undertook “many remarkable jobs” during his tenure for the cause of the Naga freedom. “But his political career was marred by his failure to condemn or abrogate the infamous Shillong Accord of 1975 and also allowing his dead body to bring from England to be buried in the Secretariat complex area owned by the Nagaland puppet state against which he vehemently opposed during his lifetime” Jami stated. These, the NSCN-K Kilonser stated, are “unremovable” scars in his “freedom politics”. This does not mean that the great sacrifices made by Phizo and his family members are being ignored “but that history and facts cannot be distorted,” Jami added.
Jami also noted that the Tenyimia community particularly the Angami and Chakhesang communities regard Phizo as a patriot and a great leader. However, the two communities are “swinging between the two factions of NNC and the two factions of NSCN.” The NSCN-K also assessed that “in spite of many political commissions and omissions made by Ao leaders” Yongongnangshi Ao (NNC) made sacrifices even greater than Phizo.
“Now ignoring the political principle of their leader Yongkong, where are the Aos at present” the Kilonser queried. “To be polite, the Aos always try to be the first and topmost beneficiaries of the puppet state” Jami stated adding that the Nagas rejected the offer of the Indian government during the 1964-67 talks “which was higher and better than what Issac and Muivah are proposing today.” It is high time the Nagas “come to their senses and rally” around the original political principle of the Naga mass movement, he opined.
He also cited an instance: Mohammed Ali Jinnah is called the father of Pakistan. “But recently some influential religious organizations had passed a resolution not to include Jinnah’s name in the list of the names of freedom fighters on the ground that he did not do remarkable works for Pakistan’s independence nether did he undergone even a single day in jail for Pakistan’s independence” he asserted.
Likewise even among Nagas who “had not suffered enough” and “undergone imprisonment” for the struggle may not be included in the list of Naga freedom fighters “whosoever one makes lofty claims or howsoever high position one holds.” He stated. Many may be offended by this statement but the “truth” triumphs he added.
