Niketu Iralu
The Morung Express deserves to be thanked for the exhaustive reports on what is going on again in the Intangki National park. The revelation is most timely and altogether outrageous that a few Nagas can loot with such shameless greed and impunity what is possibly our most precious asset – the magnificent but easily destroyable green-cover forest resource the Zeme people gave to the Nagas and the world to preserve and be protected by.
It is really another monstrous case of gang-raping by all the ‘underground’ and ‘over ground’ culprits cited in the report. And of course we need not doubt that they are all Christians. Lord God of hosts, have mercy on us! Stab our conscience awake and make us hungry for your bread of life so that we do not feed on what never satisfies.
The Zeliang villages should be shown soonest they are not alone in guarding our common heritage.
What should be done before it will be too late is something very urgent, democratic, uplifting and doable. A massive march to Beisumpuikam and the other villages mentioned by all who care for our imperilled tomorrow. The purpose – to find out what is really going on and who is doing exactly what?
If it is led by NSF and ENSF and fully supported by Naga Hoho, ENPO, NPMHR, the Nagaland Christian Forum, and the non-Naga organizations in Nagaland, the gravity of the Crisis will be driven home to all. Equally important the world too will come to know and join the battle to preserve Intangki. A very important point about Intangki is that it is not something we can allow anyone to play with for their own gain.
