Against the backdrop of government of India disallowing NSCN (I-M) collective leadership to visit Zunheboto, NNC/FGN “strongly condemned” the policy of the government of India “to deny a person to move freely in one’s own country or debar one from visiting one’s place of birth.”
NNC/FGN “kedallo”, Zhopra Vero, in a press statement released Wednesday, said: “History clearly shows that India has not understood the Naga people, our beliefs, our thinking, our value and custom; and our burning and legitimate desire for freedom and Naga sovereignty.”
FGN leader asserted that even the “most simple natural act” of an elderly Naga leader and statesman to visit his native village after many decades, to meet his people and counsel with them, was neither understood nor valued by the Indian government.
Vero said such “arrogance and refusal” to recognize and respect Naga rights and their way of life has been the “cause of much suffering and turmoil in our land.” Further, he said that government of India’s decision to prevent NSCN/GPRN chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah from visiting Zunehboto “should be a wake-up call for Nagas.”
“Today it has happened to one political group, tomorrow it can happen to another political group and the day after tomorrow it could happen to any ordinary Naga citizen,” he remarked.
NNC/FGN appealed to all Naga political groups to respond to the call of Naga reconciliation. “We can no longer allow external and internal forces to divide us anymore,” Vero said adding it was time for the Naga political groups to come together under the banner of Naga reconciliation and work together for the common cause.
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