The above title write up by Anandan S in one of the most widely circulated magazine, The Week issue of August 12, 2007 page 68 was inhuman and mischievous. The words quoted by (retd.) Major General Deepankar Banerjee of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and Bibhu Prasad of the Institute for Conflict Management has not gone to the core issue of the Naga India conflict.
The former stated “Unified Nagaland is an unrealistic dream” is not expected from a person who is suppose to research and comment how to end the conflict and not to dead lock. The 60 years of Naga struggle with blood and sweat is much greater than Naga unification.
The latter’s disagreement with the Indo-Naga ceasefire due to the fatalities of the Naga factional fights is shallow reasoning. Such people prime motives are to gain hefty sum of money out of the Naga issue, from the Government of India (GoI) for their calculated comments. The fatalities statistic have nothing to do with the Indo-Naga cease fire. The factional fights are caused due to the double standard of the GoI but, this is not surprising as to reach the goal there are full of trial by fire.
Everywhere there are agents of the dark and evil. They are inhuman, ruthless and do not take into account the suffering, humiliation and thousands of life’s loss for the just aspirations and objectives. There are rotten ideas against the Naga unification based on the 18 Meiteis killed on June 18, 2001, when the fully charged emotion mob attempted to get crash the gates of the then governor of Manipur against the Indo-Naga cease fire without territorial limits over weighing the thousands of Nagas perished fighting the Indian troops for the last 60 years.
The Naga unification is not a dream. Naga unification is a reality. It cannot be compromised as our most honorable General Secretary, Th. Muivah of the NSCN (IM) stated in the local English daily Imphal Free Press issue of August 21, 2007. The Naga masses are solidly behind the collective leadership of the NSCN (IM), come what may.
S. Ashikho , Ex-President,Mao Students’ Union, Tadubi
Patrick K. Lirete, Tadubi, Senapati District
