Dimapur, January 16 (MExN): The Naga Council and Naga Women Hoho of Dimapur denounces the Ministry of Home Affairs’ “laying down unacceptable conditions” for the visit of NSCN leaders chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah to Zunheboto district.
A joint statement from the leadership of the two organizations received here said successive prime ministers of India including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have expressed keenness to solve the Indo-Naga imbroglio. ‘As much as the Naga people desire that normalcy should return to our land, policy makers in the MHA and the defense establishments have repeatedly thwarted the attempt under one pretext or the other, the latest being the laying down of conditions by MHA against the proposed visit of the Collective Leadership of NSCN (IM) to Zunheboto which was designed to humiliate the organization,” the Naga Council and Naga women Hoho stated.
“The near-normalcy in our land is due to the efforts of FNR with the support of the Naga people and this is the desire of all Nagas-to live in peace honorably. At a time when the language is reconciliation, peace and harmony, deliberate and mischievous attempts by outside agencies to prolong the Naga conflict-within and without, is a negation of Gandian philosophy as well as the markings of a police state.”
The two organizations appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the entire political leadership of India that “sincerity in approach and a political will is what is needed to solve a political problem.” Naga people deserve to live in peace like the rest of India, the statement said. ‘To accomplish such, Indian Government should follow diplomatic and just means to solution rather than resort to covert and dirty tactics designed to protract the conflict.’ “Naga Council of Dimapur and NWHD also appeals to NSCN (IM) not to take hasty decisions even though the act of MHA is condemnable. Ceasefire in Nagaland should be given a chance so as to give fruition to political solution acceptable to all Nagas,” the two added.
