Swu asks Nagas to back reconciliation
Source: The Sangai Express / TNN
Dimapur, January 04 2012:
NSCN(IM) chairman Isak Chishi Swu has urged all Nagas to contribute in whatever way they can to the smooth completion of the reconciliation process and to pledge their solidarity to the ongoing Indo-Naga negotiation.
Swu in a New Year message said the Nagas as a people should be free from separation and should live together in love and harmony.
"We as a people have to mature; we can no longer afford to let petty differences keep us from coming together as a people and claiming what is rightfully ours.
We have allowed our adversaries to take advantage of our shortcomings for too long.
We can no longer let them apply their divide-and-rule policies on us.
Stating that the NSCN is founded upon the principles of the teachings of Christ, Swu said, "As soldiers of Christ and as Nagas, we are working for His glory and for the liberation of Nagalim" .
Calling every Naga to participate in the struggle to bring their aspiration to fruition, the Yaruiwo said, "Absolute and blind obedience to the laws imposed on us by our oppressors is the destruction of one's own liberty, conscience and reason.
We have to seek the truth and live by it, only then can we be truly liberated" .
He also called upon the Nagas to prepare their hearts to enter a New Year and a new Nagalim with the absolute faith that God is the only fountain of life from whom, through whom, to whom and for whom all things exist and move.
"May the divine providence uphold direct and guide the Naga people to the end," he prayed.