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Insurgencies managed, time to deal with ethnic divide: Kishalay Bhattarcharjee
Morung Express | Renthungo Odyuo | New Delhi, October 18
Q2. What then is the Problem (Naga Peace Accord,)?
Kishalay Bhattarcharjee: The problem here is it is incorrect to call it a Naga Talk, because we still have to define who is a Naga. Is the Tangkhul from Ukhrul in Manipur a Naga? I am not qualified to speak on that. Will the Aos, Angamis, Lothas from Nagaland accept them as Nagas? So we still have Kaccha Naga and Pucca Naga. It is important to actually try to academically try and understand who is a Naga, everybody and anybody cannot have their own versions of who is a Naga.
Contentious issue is that Muivah is a Tangkhul, the rank and files of NSCN (IM) are Tangkhuls. Will the Tangkhuls know that physical integration of the Naga inhabited areas is absolutely not possible? Because none of the states will ever agree to that. I think the Naga groups have understood that. So how the word integration has been interpreted is interesting because in none of the written texts between all the Naga Groups and the Government of India was there ever written Geographical integration. They used the word integration, so integration can mean emotional or cultural integration that does not have to be Geographical integration as it is not possible.
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