Fire and water don't mix
27 May, 2012
NSCN/Khaplang (K) Group, a frontline Naga Organization, signed a ceasefire agreement with Burma/Myanmar. The Naga International Support Center congratulates all in K with this long awaited détente between the Burmese and self proclaimed Naga Governments.
It's a milestone in Naga history and potentially a great achievement!
Potentially yes, so why should NISC feel and share its apprehension?
Two main reasons:
1 - K did not mention the Nagas who will soon. quite literally, go under water because an enormous hydro-electric dam is going to be built which inundates a vast area of Nagaland Burma on the Chindwin River near the small town of Tamanthi. (See our former release for more detailed info on this Indian financed project). K however has not issued a statement on what looks like a disastrous development for his people or has not shown this development was discussed was discussed during the talks for a ceasefire.
2 - K knows or could and should know that, although a civil government is busy relaxing the harsh and severe measures of the military junta and is opening up to become a just society of law and order, perhaps even a democracy, he also knows that the military generals hold the strings still. The renewed war against the Kachin, neighbors of the Nagas, shows this, even though the new civilian government tries its best to negotiate with the Kachins to end this war. K also knows that all other Indigenous Peoples of what is now called Myanmar have been victimized during the regime of the generals and that their role did not stop with the coming of the new government.
So, NISC congratulates but also asks the leaders of the Khaplang group, Khaplang himself and Mulatonu:
- to show K is the true representative of the Nagas in Myanmar,
- to show it is behind the aspirations of the thousands of the affected Nagas of the Indian Tamanthi hydro-electric project.
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* This Press Release was sent by Naga International Support Center who can be contacted at nisc(at)nagalim(dot)nl
This announcement was posted on May 27, 2012.
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