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07/15/2007: "Elephant tramples mouse Cease Fire between the Government of India and the Naga Peoples hanging by a thread"

A Naga International Support Center, NISC, www.nagalim.nl
A human rights organization
Press Release

Amsterdam, 10 July 2007

Elephant tramples mouse
Cease Fire between the Government of India and the Naga Peoples hanging by a thread

Ten years of Ceasefire followed by Peace talks between the Government of India and the Naga Nation have not resulted into anything tangible. On the contrary, instead of working towards peace the Government of India intensified it’s divide and rule tactics weakening the Naga Forces which on behalf of the Naga Peoples stand for their right.
The right to self determination is a universal right for all peoples of this earth. All nations united in the United Nations have underwritten this right. On disputable grounds and by way of sheer force the Government of India of the then emerging independent nation, which became free of domination from the British colonial empire itself, annexed Nagaland and divided it.

Playing with the mouse Nagaland the elephant India time and again requires the Nagas to come up with proposals to end this conflict but does not seem to have any policy which could lead into that direction. Playing the divide and rule game to the fullest it stalls for time while hoping that way the Naga Society will disintegrate and thus will no longer put up the resistance to the neo colonial rule which India by way force through stationing 200.000 soldiers there. It holds Nagaland in an iron grip.

The International Community honors India’s independence and along with it the disputable annexation of Nagaland; consequently it determines the Indo-Naga long term conflict as a domestic one. The peace talks however are held on the basis of two nations talking to each other, so one thing India did right: it recognized the unique history and situation of the Nagas acknowledging Nagaland ethnically, historically, religiously and culturally in no time in history had any relations. Not even the British colonialists who were responsible for the dubious handover of Nagaland to the emerging Union of India, conquered the Nagas fully. And, now that India occupied their divided lands, still the Nagas have not been conquered.

This conflict has to end and not just because it is not just one sided. It has to end because it is inhumane. It is India which as a state commits state terrorism. To be respectable the International community to end this long standing human misery, should intervene instantly.

Considering the imminent collapse of the Ceasefire and Peace Talks which will lead to exorbitant turmoil and bloodshed, the Naga International Support Center calls on all nations and the international press to expose this festering sore which has rotten in obscurity for over 50 years now. On the basis of human rights alone this outrage, this open wound in the side of mankind has to be dressed and the war has to be stopped.

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