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Guns and Poses: The Naga issue just got messier
Avalok Langer | Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 30, Dated 30 July 2011
Armed struggle Kitovi (sixth from left) and NSCN (Khole-Kitovi) minister :: Photo: Avalok Langer ( Tehelka.com)
Starting in 1920, the political struggle for Naga sovereignty has had more twists and turns than a Hitchcock thriller. But for a country infested with internal struggles, does a people’s movement tucked away on the Indo-Myanmar border really affect you and me? Should it matter to the nation that on 18 July, Thuingaleng Muivah, the General Secretary of NSCN(IM), issued a joint statement with Central representative RS Pandey, stating that the differences between the two parties have narrowed and that sustained negotiations have thrown up multiple proposals for a mutually honourable solution? Or that SS Khaplang, a founding father of the movement, has been expelled? That Eastern Nagaland and Arunachal are on the verge of a factional war? The answer is a simple yes, but the ‘whys’ are complex.
THE NEW outfit, NSCN(Khole-Kitovi), seems to have taken a bold and progressive stand, possibly an attempt to balance Naga aspirations with the Indian Government’s reservations. But will Khaplang give up power without a fight? Calling from an undisclosed location, Wangdin Naga, a leading member of the Khaplang faction says, “No one can deny the existence of Khaplang, he is a founding father of the Naga political struggle and without him we cannot have a national movement. He has given the Nagas a political sanctuary in Myanmar.” About the new faction, he says, “How can you fight the Indian government sitting in Dimapur? Kitovi doesn’t have the backing of a single tribe; what solution will he bring?”
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