Phoms celebrate 67th Phom Day at Longleng
DIMAPUR, JUNE 6 (MExN): The Phom Community celebrated the 67th Phom Day, a triennial peace summit of Phom citizens, with Nagaland Chief Secretary & Finance Commissioner Temjen Toy on June 6, at Local Football Ground, Longleng under the theme ‘Embracing peace and sharing peace within.’
Addressing a mammoth gathering who have assembled from near and far, Temjen Toy called upon the Phom community to remember their leaders with reverence and solemnity for the seeds of peace they have sown. He urged upon the gathering to become agents of peace to all the tribes and nations who are desperately longing for peace.
Stressing on the theme ‘Embracing peace and sharing peace within,’ Toy said peace in its literal sense is not the absence of conflict and war, but peace in totality is all about orderliness, absence of confusion, a land built upon equality and justice.
Peace in the land is where every citizen feels secure, respected, have access to development and every citizen feels satisfied with what happen within, Toy averred. He termed it as very encouraging that peace has fashioned the Phom community to participate in building the global family by producing many intellectuals serving the state, different organizations in different capacities.
The Nagaland chief secretary was also appreciative of the Amur Falcon conservation efforts in Longleng. The lone surviving satellite tagged raptor ‘Longleng’ since 2016 has been making headlines for all the right reasons, he pointed out. With this in focus, Phom citizen must also continue its effort of facilitating the task of conserving nature in every possible way, he added.
Toy also called upon the government officers posted in Longleng to work sincerely to help the community.
It may be recalled that on June 6, 1952, all the villages in Phom district in a unified voice affirmed and pledged to forsake war and to live in peace with one another. The day also marked the end of headhunting era and beginning of peaceful coexistence in Phom land.
