Swu and Adinno on 'Naga issue'
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Dimapur, August 14 2013:
NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chisi Swu today expressed his appreciation over the government of India taking 'the realistic step of taking a paradigm shift vis-a-vis the Naga issue' from military solution to political while Naga National Council (NNC) president Adinno Phizo categorically stated that India cannot claim Nagaland to be part of India.
Both Isak Swu and Adinno Phizo were addressing the 67th Naga Independence Day observation in their respective camps in Nagaland today.
NSCN-IM chairman Isak Swu said, "In the process of negotiation both the government of India and the NSCN have come as close as possible to understand the difficulties of each other.
The two entities are looking for a political solution acceptable to both.
Our people, therefore, may rest assured that NSCN leadership will never barter the future of the Nagas" .
Swu then said talking of freedom without land is like talking of a king without kingdom.
"All people and nations have their own land.
Nagalim is our inheritance from the Lord.
Our rights and freedom are inseparable from our land," stated the NSCN-IM chairman.
Recalling how Naga National Council (NNC) had failed nearly 40 years ago, Isak Swu said, "The Naga national movement that was started under the banner of NNC met a dead end with the signing of the Shillong Accord in 1975." Swu added, "When NNC failed terribly to uphold the national principle, it resulted in its downfall and de-recognition by the Naga people and the world and the declaration of Martial Law in 1978 by the pro-Accordist put the last nail to the coffin" .
According to the NSCN-IM chairman there was a vacuum in the Naga movement at that time and henceforth the NSCN was formed to lead the movement.