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DIMAPUR, MAR 18 (EMN): The Naga Hoho has appealed to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to take cognizance of the Indo-Naga political issue and help solve it.
In a representation, the Hoho urged the UN for due recognition of the rights of Naga indigenous people under the purview of UN Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous People in the UN General Assembly during its 61st session.
Explaining that situated in the tri-junction of India, China and Myanmar, Naga nation comprises 47 recognised communities/tribes who speak languages of the same root which is quite different from that of the Indian.
“History vividly speaks that the Nagas and Indians have nothing in common in terms of history, culture or race,” the representation signed by Naga Hoho president Keviletuo Kiewhuo and general secretary P Chuba Ozukum.
The Hoho further said Nagas are peace and freedom loving people who contributed their best to the world peace during the First and Second World War and they want maintain and safeguard those values against all odds.
It stated that the British colonial power not only invaded the Naga country 1832 but also divided it into many parts placing them in different artificial international boundary.
Named Naga Hills district, a part of the Naga nation was incorporated under Assam province in 1866 for its administrative convenience, the representation said. Later, it was placed under the status of Excluded Area, meaning the Naga territory was outside the purview of the new Constitution of India.
Soon after the Britishers left, India invaded Nagaland making it one of the longest unsettled political conflicts in Asia today.
Former Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Myanmar prime minister Thakin Nu (Unu) further divided the Naga homeland dissecting our territories with an imaginary boundary line without our knowledge and consent, the Hoho said.
The Hoho complained that the Nagas are being placed in worst political situation and their existence in their own homeland is not only threatened but also their land and resources are being exposed to the aggressor forever.
The Naga people are made to suffer, isolated and marginalized by both India and Myanmar to the extent that there is no room for future survival, the Hoho said.
Pointing out that houses including churches were burnt, farms and crops forests were destroyed besides mass torture, rape, massacre and detention during the heat of the confrontation, the representation said “we can no longer bear such ruthless treatments meted out upon our people and remain silent.”
It further said Naga integration is a necessity and not a choice since the desire of the Nagas for living together as one people in their own homeland under one political roof is a natural longing.
The Hoho also pointed out that Nagaland State Legislative Assembly has unanimously resolved for Naga integration consecutively for four times during different governments reiterating the unification of contiguous Naga areas.
It added that Naga national resistance movement should not be interpreted as separatist or secessionist movement, as the NNC plebiscite on May 16, 1951 was for a sovereign separate Naga state.
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