Every once in a while, the youth to whom the future belongs, is challenged to fight for their tomorrow. On 6th May, 2010, two Naga youth with bright future gave their all to ensure that the collective journey of the Nagas reaches its destiny. At this particular juncture of our history, we are faced with threats to our future as a people -subtle, stealthy and crafty threats, disguised as legitimate, constitutional and procedurally correct initiatives of the Communal State Government with regard to the tribal people, their land and identity.
Under this scheme, Nagas and tribals will have no right over our lands and the Manipur State Government(which will always have the dominant community majority), through the district council can take over any tribal land citing necessities. The tribal traditional institutions and customs will also be at the mercy of the District Council making them an extension of the State Government. In short there is an evil design to separate the tribals from their lands and their traditional customs and traditions. The design has the decimation of tribal identity and dignity as its ultimate target.
Listen to the voice of the adversary. They harp on peaceful coexistence, harmonious relationship, age-old ties as per their perspective and definition. But when the tribals raise their voices for their rights to their land, identity and existence, they shoot you down, call you destroyers of Manipur, misguided and forced by some NGOs.
The Communal forces AMUCO has call an appeal for Unity day donation, for the dubious stage managed both by Govt and communal forces in 2001, imagine how much money will be siphoned of by the IBOBI from the Hill areas development fund as was done before. Now even Home secretary GK Pillai has joined the forces on humanitarian ground for the Imphal valley. Even though he is yet to address the victim justice(Naga), which means Nagas are sub-human for him, then ibobi handing him new suitcase is true when he last visited imphal. Sir Nagas minds are fresh of your notorious past relation with Nagas, when you uttered in JNU Delhi in a seminar ten years backed that “ so what if 150000 Naga people are killed in Nagaland, even 1000 people died of road accidents in Delhi…”
What are we Nagas without the inviolable rights to our land ? what are the Nagas without our traditional customary practices and institutions ? where would our identity be then ?
We therefore call upon all Naga youths in whatever fields they may be to respond to the need of the hour and become involved in volunteerism to protect our land, dignity and existence. Join your fellow Naga youths in the Naga Youth Front as volunteers for safeguarding our future. This is the most opportune time when we can garners all our collective strength to bear upon the situation which has presented itself upon us. It is a do or perish situation and we can not afford to dither in confusion and indecisiveness. History has brought us to this point of time and given us the opportunity to decide and determine that we cannot be slaves and tied down forever by the chain subjugation of the dominant with whom we never chose to live.
M.Dosopuwa
Investigation and Publicity Wing, Naga Youth Front
