Thepfulhouvi Solo
The MIP/GPRN, in Local Dailies of Nagaland 20 May 2016 replied to the Public Reaction on the 4-Point Indo-NSCN (IM) Settlement and said:
"The NSCN Collective leadership ...........on many occasions in the form of Consultative Meetings to the Naga People had sufficiently laid bare the nature of the talk and its prospect".
This is partly true; the Organization did arrange quite a few public Consultative Meetings, but never in any had they remotely brought out the 4 Points in any form. The Nagas heard of the 4-Point Indo-IM Settlement from one Indian Reporter Bharat Bhushan in Morung Express of 20 April 2016, not from the IM who only maintained Silence till Individuals and groups of concerned Nagas began to question the wisdom of the 4 points in the Settlement.
Thuingaleng Muivah made the Indo-NSCN general Accord with Prime Minister Modi for a Negotiated Settlement of the Indo-Naga Problem while Isaac Swu, the Chairman of the Organization was in Coma. Isaac was admitted to the Hospital and had just regained consciousness in the supper Hospital Fortes at Delhi when the 3rd August 2016 Accord was made.
Twenty two days after the Accord, on 25th August 2015, in the 8thConsultative Meeting at Niathu Resort Chümukedima, the first since the August Accord, the NSCN (IM) Supremo Thuingaleng Muivah himself Chaired the Meeting; this Writer was also cordially Invited in a special blue colored Invitation Card of the Organization, but did not attend.
The next day, the Report of the exalted Consultative Meeting appeared in all the local Papers. Indeed the Supremo is reported to have talked and talked for long hours on end about "the nature and the prospect of the Accord" but did not lay anything bare in details.
Dr. Tuisem Shishak of Patkai College seemed to have some hopeful nice words for the undefined Accord and Social Scientist Mr. Niketu Iralu has expressed the need to the IM to include all other Naga Groups transparently in the ongoing Accord.
Except for the significant few words of these two, other beautiful words from always-agreeable Elites; Religious, Secular and the Fence-sitter in-betweens, were all blah......blahs and there appeared to have made no consultations in the Consultative Meeting.
The Government of Nagaland did not know anything about the details of the Accord but has herded all the NGOs and all agreeable persons in support of the unclear Accord on payment for the attendance.
Such a System of secret purchases and lack of moral Ethics are being very unfortunately started to practice in the Naga Society. Today Favors, Awards, Supports, Oppositions, Degrees, Attendance, Criticisms, Praises -all venal practices- are being employed in the Naga Society: these are all vile immoral practices every Individual, Organization and the Government in particular need never initiate.
At least, to the great relieved of the People, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (IM) daubed 'the most violent and fearful armed Group in the Northeast', no longer use its 'Power from Barrel of the Gun' influence to compel attendance to its Consultative Meetings. The IM MIP claimed (News Media, Nagaland: 20 May 2016) "The NSCN Collective leadership ...........on many occasions in the form of Consultative Meetings to the Naga People had sufficiently laid bare the nature of the talk and its prospect".
It was only a Reporter from India, Bharat Bhushan, Morung Express of 20 April 2016, based on sources from the IM, who published the 4-Point Indo-IM Settlement, not the IM.
Whenever public voices are raised on them, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, now morphed Nagalim, habitually place itself on a holier than thou political stance and deride others and describe themselves as the only politics of the Nagas. It is more honorable to receive praise from others than self praise.
On 11 November 2015, the IM arranged a Consultative Meeting with the Angamis in the APO Hall Kohima. This Writer also attended the Meeting on invitation from the APO and thought he will have a chance to hear the words of the IM leaders closely in person for the first time. I wanted to see the perception of the Organization on various Indo-Naga Issues and took my seat in a Front-ish position of the hall well ahead of time.
Mr. Raising, a well known name in the Organization, began to speak about the historic achievement of their Organization and the Indian Government accepting the Unique History of the Nagas.
I expected him to speak Item by Item of their negotiation with the Government of India on various Issues, the winning points, the difficulties, the concession India may give, the Points in which Nagas are strong and India weak or vice versa, the position IM took in each of various Issues, the achievements IM could make so far, their failures, their Assessment of the Indian Stand, and the support of Naga Public they would require in this and that coming discussions; and on many other specific Matters.
Most of all, I was interested to gather something of what the IM took in the Talk on sensitive Issues of Integration, of Naga Independence and on Sovereignty of the Nagas.
Mr. Raising did not touch any of these Issues in the consultation Meeting. He harped on and on, in description of their Organization only. I left the Meeting to attend a colleague daughter's wedding while he was speaking. The IM do not discuss specific Issues; they talk only of General Issues in General Terms, not on deep realistic or specific political matters.
To be brutally frank: I hesitate to share my Mind with the IM because I feel they are not, -Open, -Honest, -Sincere, –Humane or Gracious and assume an abrasives holier than thou attitude in everything Naga Politics.
Nagas have every right to hear the India-IM Talk, Issue by Issue, at least the principal ones, than time wasting grey generalities?
