Peter Chachei
“The one who holds the ladder at the bottom is frequently of more service than the man at the top”. – Iaan Creation Pvt. Ltd.
As early as in 1832 the Nagas entered the History of the imperialist world marking the beginning of their years of struggle against political and military domination, division of their history, institutions and basic human rights by the outside forces. The Nagas, since then, were fighting for their own identity and their right to live together.
Political talks begin as early from 12 June 1995 when former Prime Minister Mr.P.V.Narashimha Rao and the Collective Leaders discussed the issue at Paris. Later, cease-fire was signed between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) in 1997. Intensive negotiations took place on both sides without any satisfactory results; there is no movement forward on defining the New Political relationship between Government of India and the Nagas on the integration issue.
NSCN (IM) General Secretary, Th. Muivah said on BBC in an interview, “The Government of India has to/has recognized the Naga issue as a Unique history and situation”. Then why it came to an halt without any satisfactory results. Is it because the Government of India takes it as a general problem of Centre-State relations, which on the part of the Nagas do not consider ourselves as a part of India either by conquest or consent-we were independent from time immemorial.
Even after rounds of intensive negotiation, the Naga Peace – Talk has no movement towards a solution. What we really have to know is that our Leaders wants to bring a revolution in our hearts and lives as they radically changes the way that we think and act for the for the welfare among the Naga brothers and sisters – an Unification. But as we see the state of our society, it is easy to be discouraged. We see quarrels and division, complacency and mediocrity everywhere.
We look for disciplineship; we look for those who are working together in unity, in prayers, in power, etc. Some people think that somehow we have missed some essential experience and if we can only reconcile through new meetings, deliverance and restoration will once again be brought back.
A National Worker quotes (identity undisclosed), “ We cannot think of Unification without a mass support and we cannot think of a mass support without the absence of any Naga individual, as every one counts and every one of us is a part and parcel of it. There is no place for differentiation among anyone, we cannot think of a complete Nagalim without Unification. Even God cannot help if we are not united”.
Unification appears to be a very simple statement but not, and I am convinced that only an extremely small percentage of the Nagas have really come to grip with this truth. It is also bringing back our identity and our lost land to the Indians, long ago. This is the time that all the Nagas unite together and jointly support the Mass Movement for Unification of all the Naga inhabited areas. If they (NSCN-IM) adopt the other way of solving the Indo-Naga issue, then restarting the peace process would be another up-hill task.
