As I used to imagine how much we must grieve to deserve ‘justpeace’? ::: S Varah If GOI is honest and seriously committed to settlement, there should have been only one ceasefire with only one Naga political front. If GOI and the Naga people have only one unresolved issue, pretending to fare with two cease fires is very bad on the part of GOI. If GOI says Naga are a many political parties, as it has said so many times, that is also a lie; because they (GOI) invented very bad ideas, for one, along ‘Naga tribals’ line and sold them to the Naga so that they (GOI) may advise the Naga to become one, united in object. This grants delay, it disrupts rational thinking and gives birth to problems the Naga do not really deserve. The Naga have had enough! Instead of tutoring some Naga---not many of them-- to claim political authenticity and the mandate-commanding party, GOI should have guided the Naga towards long-term-solution road map by admitting truth and history and the unhappy life they have lived. GOI’s sinister ambition has led to this seemingly complex duplicity. The situations compelling the adoption of 16-point ‘draft proposal’ which, we do admit, advanced the development of the Naga being scattered, immensely upset feeling of Naga oneness, was and is the foundation of multiplied problems. It is never the ‘best thing to have happened’ for the Naga. Many Naga are unwilling to disown it now. Also, there are number of estimates as to the signing of the 1975 Shillong Accord. But given the fact that ‘the representatives of Naga underground organization(s)’ accepting, without condition, the Constitution of India’, and that which vehemently led to disasters, should be figured as big mistake. All these unfortunate events are parts of Naga history. The most unfortunate, rather, the most hilarious thing is the Naga’s inability to denounce and forsake what they do know as unacceptable proposition and an extra anxiety. And as long as the Naga are unable to admit mistakes of the past leaders, leadership catastrophe will continue to fatigue the Naga. And that is foolishness. Other ridicule is that some Naga are happy and comfortable being foolish when they are dangerously wise and disastrously unforgiving. The Naga love freedom that is not freedom. We have grown and we are growing under smuggled happiness that is not happiness. Are not we being propelled by mechanical set of precepts which are dead to the touch of crime and yet so lively to the tune of friction and competition so unfair and rotting to eat the Naga heart inside out? Our blame game, our hot headedness and our unfair contest, how long could we afford to stay attached and put! We are a mere portrait of what we condemn and despite; and yet we claim uprightness and happening people. This is the perfect condition for active attack and actions to destroy for ones who will disgrace the Naga as a free people. We know we are late. Anticipating ‘a beginning’ seems to be an end to itself. We have been robbed of our natural rights; we have been demolished and we are being made competitors while those pretentious ambitions are steadily but worryingly asserting rights over the indigenous land and resources today; interpreting laws and provisions we used to defy. We know we have been embittered and ruined by our own disagreements; and that has resulted to what we are today. Expensive whims of selfishness have created confusions upon our individuals and our rights to fairness in material distribution. Inherent rights to everything as humans born equal have now been retained and possessed; the right and the wrong politics between very few of them has totally annihilated people for whom they pretend to play seriousness. Naga people have been hit hard. We have endured blows; we will live with those deep cuts and scars; but they are no credentials to the ‘other life’ we are so unwilling to give up on. Limping on this kind of outset with unpromising future given the kind of circumstances under right and wrong politics and its institutions, many of us as Naga are at our lowest. We have lived a decade and half with the promise of honourable solution. Our leaders who are at the helm rejoice and no less assured than when negotiation started off; albeit not many stimulate and feel the same way they do. Any progress across the table though seriously taking place is interpreted home differently; and though smart and proven leaders enthuse, many ‘disagreeable section’ questions as to the Naga ‘inclusiveness’ and so on. The ‘ball is at GOI’s court’; that has been repeatedly said; how much is GOI serious and committed we still grope in the dark and the light of dawn never seems appearing; the wait seems stretched. Our prayers, our fasts and lamentation over retributions unanswered, seeming to say: ‘the ball is at Naga’s core’. The wait seems unending The contest between political right and wrong Seems unrelenting The unfair competition for more Seems unabated And the cry for cessation Seems unheeded While hot headedness Hollering hallelujah! Naga are too late to lie lying down.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:26:24 +0000
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