Four Naga organisations urge Centre to resolve the Naga political impasse

Four Naga organisations including the Naga Hoho on Tuesday urged the Central government to honour its word in the Ceasefire Agreement (1997) and Framework Agreement (2015) and “must resolve the Naga political impasse accordingly”.

Naga Hoho, Naga Mothers’ Association, Naga Students’ Federation and Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, in a joint statement said that the government must “stop its militarization and military operations”.

“The Naga political conflict cannot be solved militarily and must be solved politically, as admitted by no less than three Indian Army Generals and others,” they said.


The statement said :“Naga People are an independent indigenous nation in assertion to which a peaceful and prior informed Plebiscite was conducted in 1951 that resulted in 99.9 per cent in support of our independent status as declared on the 14th of August 1947.”

The Naga bodies said that the Indian armed forces have been occupying their land ever since its military aggression in 1954.

“Left with no option but to defend our political, social, religious and economic rights, we have resorted to confront and resist the occupational military forces of India and Burma. This war has ever since continued in the midst of two “ceasefire”.”

We are subjected to live in constant fear and trauma, which is a never ending-nightmare, the statement said.

They alleged that their homes and granaries were vandalized and burned.

The armed forces occupy their crop fields, schools, hospitals and make them their camps, their churches are desecrated and have been made concentration camps.

“Our women and daughters are molested and raped. Our wives and daughters are subjected to give birth in public,” the statement claimed and said that former Secretary General of United Nations Boutros Boutros Ghali had officially acknowledged these violence, destruction, pain and untold sufferings of the Nagas.

Although a decade shy of two years has nearly passed, yet the political resoluteness and honorable approach and guarantee on the part of the government of India remains a dangerous doubt, it said.