A highly placed source from the NSCN (I-M) informed this correspondent that Ato Kilonser Th Muivah, despite his ill health, met the government of India’s interlocutor for Naga peace talks, AK Mishra, at Chumoukedima Police Complex, in an attempt to “break the stalemate” in the negotiation to end the protracted Naga political issue.
By Imna Longchar, TFM Nagaland Correspondent
Indicating that the “dialogue” has already been “fast tracked” towards a solution, where a meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio and other “top leaders” was held recently, it was made known in the meet that the government of India’s new interlocutor AK Mishra
would be camping in the state for a week to hold meetings with Naga political party(s).
In that very particular meeting supposedly termed as “long meet” by those Naga leaders as “positive”, a source from within has shared that in the meeting, the Nagaland delegation apprised Modi about the development related to “peace talks” in Nagaland and also a “compromised formula” has to be made
available from the government of India, the Nagaland chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, along with UDA chairman, TR Zeliang, among others who had called on the Union home Minister, Amit Shah, had made known that government of India’s representatives, AK Mishra, would be camping in the state for a week to hold meetings with political party (s).
A highly placed source from the NSCN (I-M) when inquired about Friday’s “closed door meet”, informed this correspondent that Ato Kilonser NSCN (I-M), Th Muivah, despite his ill health, he along with other NSCN (I-M) leaders have met the government of India’s interlocutor for “Naga peace talks”, AK Mishra, at
Chumoukedima Police Complex, in an attempt to “break the stalemate” in the negotiation to end the protracted Naga political issue.
Disclosing that it was also the second meet within a week’s time where the India’s interlocutor for the “Naga peace talks”, AK Mishra, and NSCN (I-M) General Secretary, Th Muivah, had an “informal talk” on April 19 at the latter’s camp,
Hebron, the source also supplemented that the meet between the “Indian negotiator and the Naga leader” was mainly focused on finding ways in order to bring a “solution” to the “protracted Naga political issue” at the earliest which has been long felt by the Nagas. With the “closed door” meeting to be continued Saturday at the same venue, it was also learnt that Friday’s meet lasting more than an hour, the NSCN (I-M) entourage of the led by its “chief negotiator” Th Muivah, where more details on the outcome of the meeting was refused to be divulged.
It is pertinent to be mentioned here that the NSCN (I-M), which is one of the “strongest outfits” in Nagaland, in its recent statement has categorically said that it cannot and would not be part of the NNPGs solution on the “Naga Political Issue” following the leaders in the Centre being in talk with the
different NNPGs in the recent years.
The NSCN (I-M) said that the Agreed Position signed by the NNPGs with the government of India is “betrayal to the Naga people’s mandate of the 1929 Simon Commission Memorandum, 1947 Naga Independence Declaration and the 1951 Plebiscite.”
However, the NSCN (I-M) maintained that if the NNPGs are “so keen to go for a Naga solution as per its Agreed Position, we wish them to go ahead and let the Naga people witness what they could achieve for the Naga people.”
“We are never going to surrender our rights so tamely. History will judge and we simply cannot betray the sacrifices of the thousands of martyrs,” the NSCN (IM) mentioned in its earlier statement. NSCN (I-M) has also alleged that Nagas who are working as “Indian mercenaries” are going through sleepless nights to wreck the Naga issue and destroy the Naga national identity which the Nagas have shed blood, tears and sweat for over six decades by stating that they have fought single handedly against the “mighty Indian security forces” and also the misguided Nagas (mercenaries), who were given shelter and made to operate from the Indian Army camps.
The NSCN (I-M), while accusing the Indian government of creating a “third force/party” to defend its interests against the rights of the Nagas had further asserted that any solution based on collaborators would only pave the way for a “bigger disaster” claiming that forces are working “hand in glove to engineer reedited 16 Points Agreement.”