Dimapur, July 3 (MExN): General Secretary of the NSCN/GPRN Th. Muivah today queried on the stand taken by the “Tuensang people and the K-group” that there should be unity first and thereafter the solution. To this he posed what a note from the MIP called a “strong question”: “…Unless there is unity there will be no solution? He said that this a very irresponsible way of facing the Naga issue,” the note quoted Muivah as saying.
The MIP note stated: “On the stand taken by the Tuensang people and the K-group that there should be unity first and solution next he came up with a strong question: Unless there is unity there will be no solution? He said that this a very irresponsible way of facing the Naga issue. Indicating that such approach should be left aside he said reconciliation must come first on the basis of Naga history and without considering the interest of Shillong Accord or Khaplang interest or Isak-Muivah interests and only then there will be solution.”
“When we come to you to trust and understand each other please don’t fail this time…We have to forget the past mistakes and forgive each other. This is your time to take correct decision,” he said. According to the MIP note, Muivah made a “promise” to the Tuensang people that “NSCN will not betray God” and Nagaland for Christ and claimed to “stand for truth.”
Muivah also mentioned of the period when Tuensang area was a “freeland” but “downgraded” by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as ‘no man’s land’. He asserted that “Nehru” was wrong to call this land ‘No man’s Land because he did not want this land to be called Naga land but a land that anybody can claim’.
The MIP note added: “Muivah was not able to avoid mentioning the tragic history of NNC and Shillong Accord and how Phizo proved himself wrong by not condemning the Shillong Accord because it was not decision of the Naga nation. As Shillong Accord was the conflicting point in Naga history Muivah explained in detail and how the nation was saved.”
He also explained “the circumstances of how India started sending feelers” to begin peace talks during the time of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and finally ending up signing the ceasefire in 1997. The note also quoted Muivah as asserting that “he took pride in sharing to the Tuensang people that the Government of India after listening to NSCN for five years at last gave official recognition to the uniqueness of Naga history and situation in July 11, 2002 at Amsterdam.”
“This is a big political achievement for the Nagas because agreement was reached that solution to Naga issue has to be based on Naga history,” he said. On the current “issue” of reconciliation, Muivah said it was in the year 2007 when NSCN/GPRN Chairman Isak Chishi Swu suggested that Nagas should go for reconciliation and he agreed to start reconciliation. “In that manner the reconciliation proclamation was declared on 13 January 2007 after undergoing three day prayer and fasting at Hebron,” the MIP note asserted. “He made a sincere appeal to the people saying this is the best time to solve our problem by understanding each other, and not allowing India to take advantage of our differences.”
