On G20 Nagas seek int’l intervention on Naga political issue

KOHIMA: As delegates from 29 countries arrive in Nagaland for the G20 Business Meet to be held in Kohima on April 5, Naga Students Federation (NSF), Naga Mothers Association, Naga Hoho (NH), and Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights. (NPMHR) jointly requested international intervention on the long pending Naga political issue.
On Tuesday, NSF and Diphupar Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) staged a symbolic demonstration by putting up banners that read, “Until the Indian Army invades and occupies our country, the Nagas are no other nation.” had no conflict with”, “Dear G20 delegates, Naga people. Welcome to Nagaland”, etc.
Banners were put up at two strategic locations – one at the Dimapur airport junction and the other at the Patkai bridge along NH-2 that connects Dimapur and Kohima to express the “desire” of the Naga people.
Through a joint statement, the NSF, NMA, NH, and NPMHR urged the international community to “intervene in human rights violations” in “Naga country”, urging them to “legitimate political, social Recognize the economic and religious rights” enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
He said that the Naga people are an “independent indigenous nation” for which a peaceful and pre-informed referendum was held in 1951 which resulted in 99.9 percent of the people supporting the independent status declared on 14 August 1947.
“Indian armed forces have been occupying our land since their military aggression in 1954. Our nation has been subjected to militancy and political and social oppression and extreme inhumane oppression. We have our political, social, religious and economic rights. Left with no option but to defend ourselves, we resorted to confronting and resisting the occupying military forces of India and Burma. The war has been going on between two ceasefires ever since,” they said.

Stating that Nagas live in constant fear and trauma, a never-ending nightmare, they described how armed forces occupying crop fields, schools and hospitals ransacked houses and grain and Burned them and made them their camp.
“Our churches have been desecrated and turned into concentration camps. Our women and daughters are molested and raped. Our wives and daughters are subjected to giving birth in public,” they said.
Quoting former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who acknowledged the violence, destruction, pain and untold suffering of the Nagas as “a human rights situation in Nagaland”, he said Nagas are pacifists and all There are more humanistic people than For peaceful coexistence.
Following a ceasefire agreement in 1997, they signed a 2015 framework agreement to work on a political agreement to resolve the armed conflict. “Even though two shameful decades have almost passed, the political will and the honorable approach and guarantee from the Government of India remain in serious doubt,” they said.
They further said that the Government of India should stop its militancy and military operations as the political dispute can be resolved not by military means but by political means. “The Government of India should honor its words in the agreement and resolve the Indo-Naga political impasse accordingly. On our part, the Nagas have called for a sustainable comprehensive new relationship between the Nagas and the Indians for the peaceful coexistence of the two entities.” What has been agreed and committed to.