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08/26/2007: "Congress for integrating contiguous Naga areas Times of India"

Congress for integrating contiguous Naga areas Times of India

KOHIMA: The Congress has urged the Centre to work to integrate all contiguous Naga-inhabited areas with Nagaland and to solve the state's boundary dispute with Assam -- two unimplimented clauses in a 16-point agreement that led to the state's formation in 1963.

The annual general session of the Nagaland unit of the Congress, held in Kohima on Saturday, adopted a resolution to this efect. The session was attended by state leaders and central observer Ranji Thomas.

Bringing contiguous Naga-inhabited areas under one administrative set-up is a major demand made by the NSCN-IM during its peace talks with the Centre over the past 10 years.

State party president Hokheto Sumi told reporters after the session that no national parties, except the Congress, were involved in the Naga political issue since the beginning of the Naga uprising, and the party had been demanding the implementation of the two clauses of the 16-point pact of 1960.

However, he said, it was not a new demand of the Congress because when the party was in power, the Nagaland assembly had passed resolutions three times in this regard.

The Congress said the Naga political issue and development strategies in the state would be the party's main plank in the assembly elections slated for early next year.

CLP leader I Imkong said the Congress wanted to be a bridge between the Centre and Naga underground groups so that lasting peace became a reality in the state through political negotiations on the vexed Naga problem.

Before every election, all parties, including the Congress, earlier promised to play the role of a facilitator, but after coming to power the tasks were vested to NGOs and churches, he said. "But this time, we want to change this policy by shouldering the responsibility of becoming the real facilitator," Imkong said.

NSCN-IM ‘rulebook’ to set wrongs right - Outfit plays cop for Nagaland govt & people OUR CORRESPONDENT The Telegraph
Kohima, Aug. 25: Shopkeepers, Internet users, encroachers and even the state government. Playing moral and social police, the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) excluded none from a set of dos and don’ts it issued today, warning of serious consequences if the “guidelines” were flouted.
Claiming that state government vehicles were involved in illegal transportation of alcohol into the state from Assam, the NSCN (I-M) warned that if any such car was intercepted, its owner or officer-in-charge would be held responsible for the crime.
In a circular issued by the central administrative officer, G. Tokishe Swu, the outfit also suggested to the business community in Dimapur, particularly meat and fish sellers, that electronic balances or table-stand balances be installed in their shops. It warned that anybody found cheating customers while using hand balances would be penalised.
The outfit expressed concern over “misuse” of Internet cafes in and around Dimapur town by schoolchildren. The term “misuse” has been interpreted as surfing of pornographic sites. It said that if children or students up to the higher-secondary level were caught misusing cafes, the owner as well as the user would be severely punished.
The NSCN (I-M) also warned against “illegal” encroachments into places of historical importance, monuments, reserved forests and zoological parks, particularly Rangapahar. Several hectares of land in Rangapahar Zoological Park have been encroached upon by anti-social elements, despite repeated warnings and eviction drives by the government. Several hutments have now come up within the park.
“Rampant illegal encroachment is taking place; natural lakes, flora and fauna and their habitats should never be exposed to encroachment at any cost,” the outfit said.
The NSCN (I-M) also made it clear that all operations or commercial activities in this connection should first be subject to the interests of indigenous Nagas.
“Hence any Indian state agencies, individuals, corporate, firms or entrepreneurships are hereby forewarned to acknowledge strict ownership over what is under the ground, on and above the Lim,” it said. Lim is the Naga word for land. “The stand of the Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim is hereby once again made plain that ownership of the Lim of the indigenous or native people is defined beyond any argument,” the outfit said.
RJD on Naga political issue- Nagaland Post
In response to the Congress poll agenda on the Naga political issue, the RJD Nagaland State Unit strongly support such a thoughtful move because this vexed problem has been dragging on for too long and the Nagas are now getting impatient on this very issue.
The attack on the present DAN Government by the Congress leaders for not fulfilling as promised to solve this vexed problem within six months if elected to power is a fact. But the RJD would like to remind the Congress leaders that the DAN has still sic months time in their hands, because if they could give such assurance to solve this problem within six months four and half years back. "That stipulated time is still at hand". So let us give them one more chance and see if they deliver any good on the 'Naga Political issue'.
The RJD Nagaland State would like to make it known to the Nagas and all the national workers that our party shall see to it that this promises and commitments of the political leaders in nagaland in respect of 'Naga political issue' is implemented in letter and spirit. The RJD shall maintain check and balances in the formation of the next government taking the 'Naga political issue' on top priority.
In response to the AICC secretary, Ranjit Thomas that the Congress will be shaping the state after 2008 February poll, the RJD would like to remind the Congress leaders that the RJD will be shaping the next government of India.
Akuto Tuccu, gen secy, RJD Nagaland.
APO-NSCN (K) talks inconclusive Nagapage

Dimapur, August 25: The Angami Public Organization (APO) and the NSCN (K) on Sunday failed to come to a consensus on the August 16 incident that had so far resulted in closure of shops and total bandh being imposed in the state capital, Kohima, for at least two days last week.
It can be recalled that the powerful Angami Students' Union (ASU) and the Angami Youth Organization (AYO) has demanded the NSCN (K) to hand over the errant NSCN (K) cadre, one 'Sgt. Maj' Yehokhu Sema for the attempt on the life of former ASU president, Medo Yhokha, on August 16 last at Jail Colony, Kohima.
The NSCN (K) has earlier, while assuring that stringent action would be taken against the errant cadre and also conveying its apologies for its cadre's misdeeds, had expressed its inability to hand over the errant cadre as demanded.
Sources informed that the APO would again meet NSCN (K) leaders, represented by Jack Zhimomi, Singsong and Military Spokesman, Isak Sumi, on Sunday to find a solution to the deadlock. (Page News Service)
Judicial remand for Arakanese migrants By Our Staff Reporter Asian tribune
Imphal, Aug 25: Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Chandel district has today remanded all the fif- teen illegal migrant workers of Myanmarese origin arrest-ed from the border town of Moreh recently to judicial custody for fifteen days.
Official sources said the police might submit charge sheet against the illegal migrant workers, all Muslims, before the court very soon. During the five-day police investigation nothing cou-ld be established on the possibility of having links with any international terror organization or Al Queda.
Assam Rifles personnel stationed at Moreh apprehended them from the border town on last Friday morning. Subsequently, Moreh police registered a regular FIR against them under section 13 of the Foreigners Act for entering the country without valid papers including passports and visas.
On August 21, the CJM remanded the accused hailing from Arakan province till today.
For security reasons they were kept and interrogated at Imphal and not at the border town as a battery of underground organizations are hiding along the long porous borderlines.
Authorities of Assam Rifles said that though one of arrested illegal migrant workers possessed documents from Thailand no links with any terrorist organization could be esta- blished and that they were apprehended for not possessing necessary docu- ments while entering the country. To reach Moreh town they have reportedly crossed over from Arakan to Bangladesh via Tripura, Silchar and Imphal.
One of illegal migrant workers reportedly reveal-ed that they are manual workers and that they had landed at Moreh recently in search of work.
North-east in transition By Vinod Vedi - Syndicate Features
It is a season of mixed results in the north-east. The ceasefire between Delhi and the Isac Swu-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) has been extended indefinitely with the proviso from the Naga side that if there is no progress in the talks between the two delegations the ceasefire would be revoked immediately. The consequence could be a renewed flare-up of violence in Nagaland.
A connected development was the rejection of any ceasefire by the rival faction of the NSCN led by the Khaplang group which has pockets of control on both sides of the India-Myanmar border.
This and the rather hare-brained demand by some legislators that the Government provide licences for arms to villages contiguous to Assam-Nagaland to prevent frequent attacks by Naga hostiles on unprotected villages on the Assam side would be sure method of igniting inter-State ethnic violence. A better solution would be setting in place a string of police posts covering the forest areas as well as the built up settlements and dissuasive actions to prevent inflammatory cross-border attacks. Naga factions acting beyond the borders in pursuit of the Greater Nagalim concept need to be discouraged.
Horror was created by the ethnic cleansing conducted in what appeared to be a joint operation by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and a like-minded Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) of Bihar-origin Hindi-speaking labourers. The allegation has surfaced that ULFA, apparently the senior partner in this coalition of terror, is acting on behalf of the Pakistani Army’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) through Bangladesh to get rid of other ethnic Indians from the north-east and make room for a new influx of Bangladeshi migrants.
It is not as far-fetched as it sounds. This is the modus operandi of the ISI even inside Pakistan. Its sword arm—the jihadi groups—have only recently been issuing direct threats to the Christian and Hindu communities in the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal controlled North West Frontier Province. Dire consequences of the kind that have occurred against other minorities like the Shias, the Qaidianis and the Boras of the Aga Khan community in the shape of a systematic programme of elimination in the various parts of Pakistan, Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and what it calls the Northern Areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
ULFA began its infamous existence as an opponent of the influx of Bangladeshis into Asom. It is now very obviously siding with those who have long had a game plan of “Greater Bangladesh” using jihadis and Islamic fundamentalists as vanguard just as they used the Taliban nurtured in the madrassas of Pakistan to take control of neighbouring Afghanistan.
The Centre needs to expedite work on the barbed wire fence along the India-Bangladesh border with concomitant programme of road network to facilitate patrolling by security forces. It is necessary to stem an influx that has made its presence felt as far away as Jammu and Kashmir where a group of Bangladeshis were caught trying to exfiltrate into POK very likely for terrorist training.
August is the season for ULFA’s hyperactivity since it coincides with India’s Independence Day celebrations. Its passion for “liberation” appears to have become lost in the needs and desire of its leadership to live a good life through extortion, abduction and murders. There has already been a backlash among the very people it still pretends to lead into “liberty and liberation”.
The depredations of such terrorist organisations are now being seen to be detrimental to the development and growth of the peoples of the seven north-eastern that occupy an increasingly strategic corner of India. The growth and prosperity that is slowly becoming available in the rest of the country is being denied the people of these States afflicted as they are by the many insurgencies that have lost their relevance.
Prospects are bright for opening up the north-east as the land corridor for India’s “Look East” policy through Myanmar and beyond northwards to China and southwards to Thailand and Indochinese States of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The instability created by ethnic upheavals and separatist insurgencies could be a dampener. Engines of growth are set to make their way to the region. The Trans Asian Railway to connect 28 nations including China, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Iran and Turkey will enter India at Moreh in Manipur. Indian Railways is to improve links between New Azra to Byrnihat (to connect Meghalaya to New Delhi), Dimapur to Kohima, Jiribam to Imphal, and Kumarghat to Agartala.
Mizoram will become a commercial entrepot when trade begins to flow through Sittwe Port in Myanmar. A channel through 160 km of waterway (through Kaladan River) and 65 km of road link is being created to facilitate this. Four land custom stations at Moreh in Manipur, Dawki in Meghalaya, Sutrakandi in Assam and Agartala in Tripura are being planned. For trade through Tibet it is proposed to convert Nathula into a land custom station. China has already planned to connect Nathula with Lhasa through a rail link in next three years.
This region of our country is floating on oil and other sources of energy like natural gas and coal and huge deposits of uranium to meet our nuclear energy needs. The ONGC has plans to invest heavily in oil exploration in the region—something ULFA is trying to prevent by its campaign of kidnappings and extortions. That the north-east has a hydro-electric power generation potential estimated at 50000 MW. Sadly sixty years of independence we have tapped just seven percent of this huge untapped reservoir of energy. Happily now, plans are afoot to explore the power potential and transmit to it to power deficient regions.
ULFA’s campaign—indeed of all the insurgent groups operating in the region—is fuelling a feeling of security and is resulting in investors shunning the eight sisters. The ULFA attacks against Hindi-speaking persons have resulted in issue of travel advisories by foreign countries, to their citizens asking them to stay away thus seriously affecting the tourism industry. The resistance by locals against oil exploration in Nagaland and uranium mining (large deposits have already been identified) in Meghalaya have also affected prospects of growth. The people have legitimate concerns over environmental degradation and adverse affects of development on their traditional lifestyles and cultures which need to be addressed.
Assam tribals to intensify agitation OUR BUREAU The Telegraph

Protesters burn effigies of Manmohan Singh and P.R. Kyndiah in Dibrugarh on Saturday. Picture by Eastern Projections
Aug. 25: Tribal organisations in Assam, which are seeking Scheduled Tribe status, today warned the government of a series of agitations if it failed to meet their demand. Several organisations staged protest rallies in different parts of the state.
The Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association today burnt effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, tribal welfare minister P.R. Kyndiah and chief minister Tarun Gogoi in all the tea gardens of Upper Assam. Its organising secretary, Lobin Karmakar, said the union has called a 12-hour Assam bandh on August 30 and that all the tea estates in the state will remain closed that day. Accusing Dispur of not recommending their case to Delhi adequately, the student leader threatened to ban the entry of ministers, MLAs and MPs into Tinsukia district if the government failed to fulfil their demands.
The Morans, one of the six tribes demanding ST status, have announced a rally on August 31. This was decided at a co-ordination committee meeting of the All Assam Moran Students’ Union, the Assam Moran Sabha and the Moran Jatiya Mahila Samity held in Guwahati today. The organisations also threatened to boycott the Lok Sabha and panchayat polls. Talking to the media after the meeting, president of the All Assam Moran Students’ Union Birinchi Neog announced a series of agitations, beginning with the protest march to put pressure on the Centre.
Neog said after the protest march in Tinsukia, their activists will march to Dispur on September 5, followed by a 50-hour oil blockade from September 12 and a train blockade on September 15 in Tinsukia district.
On the Tribal Sangha and other organisations opposing their demand for ST status, Neog said the state government should organise a round table conference to sort out these issues. He said they are training 1,000 youths to make their campaign a success.
Fearing a backlash, Delhi has decided to take the issue up on a priority basis.
A delegation of central leaders, led by party general secretary Digvijay Singh, will visit the state soon to meet leaders of the six tribal organisations seeking ST status.
Judicial remand for Arakanese migrants By Our Staff Reporter Sangai Express
Imphal, Aug 25: Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Chandel district has today remanded all the fif- teen illegal migrant workers of Myanmarese origin arrest-ed from the border town of Moreh recently to judicial custody for fifteen days.
Official sources said the police might submit charge sheet against the illegal migrant workers, all Muslims, before the court very soon. During the five-day police investigation nothing cou-ld be established on the possibility of having links with any international terror organization or Al Queda.
Assam Rifles personnel stationed at Moreh apprehended them from the border town on last Friday morning. Subsequently, Moreh police registered a regular FIR against them under section 13 of the Foreigners Act for entering the country without valid papers including passports and visas.
On August 21, the CJM remanded the accused hailing from Arakan province till today.
For security reasons they were kept and interrogated at Imphal and not at the border town as a battery of underground organizations are hiding along the long porous borderlines.
Authorities of Assam Rifles said that though one of arrested illegal migrant workers possessed documents from Thailand no links with any terrorist organization could be esta- blished and that they were apprehended for not possessing necessary docu- ments while entering the country. To reach Moreh town they have reportedly crossed over from Arakan to Bangladesh via Tripura, Silchar and Imphal.
One of illegal migrant workers reportedly reveal-ed that they are manual workers and that they had landed at Moreh recently in search of work.
This War of Words Must End:By Rokovilie Chakhesang
Posted on Thursday, August 23 @ 06:32:34 CDT
Topic: Articles. Introduction:
Of late, I have been through certain topics in the forums of www.kuknalim.com, some of which have been published in some local dailies in Nagaland. I’m a newbie (new user) in www.kuknalim.com but I would like to share a few thoughts which I believe would be contributory towards bringing a solution to end the ongoing war of words...


The real world has always been and will always be full of conflicts of varied intensity. The Naga people have been witness and victim to inhuman, unthinkable and sadistic atrocities perpetrated upon us by the Indian Armed Forces. The past more-than-half-a-century has been the bloodiest period in the history of the Nagas. The Indian Armed Forces have inflicted grievous wounds not only on the physique of the Naga people, but also on our psyche. After all these decades of bloodshed, there has been an attempt to resolve the longstanding conflict between the Nagas and the Government of India.

Recognizing each other’s uniqueness:

In February 1993, when the then Prime Minister of India, the late P.V. Narasimha Rao, came to Nagaland, he actually said that the Naga issue is a political issue which needs a political settlement. In pursuance to the desire of successive Governments of India and the Nagas to come to the negotiating table, the NSCN (IM) entered into a formal ceasefire agreement with the Government of India (GoI) effective from August 01, 1997 while the NSCN (K) also entered into a formal ceasefire agreement with the GoI effective from April 28, 2001. The road towards attaining lasting peace and an ultimate honourable solution is long and winding. Both the Nagas and the Government of India continue to pursue the desired goal for permanent peace and an honorable settlement acceptable to all sections of the Naga society. When the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Nagaland in October, 2003, he recognised the uniqueness of Naga history which has gone on record. In the course of his public speech, delivered on October 28th, 2003 at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima, Vajpayee further said (and I quote), “Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga undergrounds did not fire on the Indian Army.” The wars are an obvious reference to the Sino-Indian war of 1962, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. This proves that the Naga people are a valiant yet respectable foe. The crux of this issue? Recognizing each other’s uniqueness!

My point here would also conform to the saying, “One good deed begets another.” Throughout a long history of violent struggle, there have been chivalrous moments such as those mentioned in the preceding paragraph and that is exactly what has sown the seeds of trust and hope towards attaining a permanent peaceful solution to the vexed Naga political issue which has graduated from a jungle war to the negotiating table. A small step taken from each side has led to the progress towards finding a solution to the age-old conflict.

Case Study of Cause(s) and Effect(s):

I have noticed that the ongoing issue in www.kuknalim.com has stemmed out of differing views and opinions of the members and guests vis-à-vis the Naga political issue. I understand and respect an individual’s right to freedom of thought and expression, but it is unfortunate when he/she should choose to arrogantly express his/her thoughts at the expense of the pain and suffering of other people! I have noticed certain member(s) quoting the Naga “freedom fighters” as “gun totting extortionists” besides making fun of the Oral Tradition of the Nagas by terming it as “hearsay”. When a member expresses his/her views without understanding the CAUSE which led the Nagas to take up arms in the first place, and dwell only on the resulting EFFECTS (as to why they carry guns), I cannot help but perceive such a member to be intellectually bankrupt when it comes to the Naga issue. Every cause has an effect, and every effect has a root cause. I have also noticed some member(s) relying/banking heavily only upon the writings about various Naga underground organizations posted on www.satp.org (as quoted by them) without attempting to understand the ground realities the other side(s). I find this part amusing. Why do some members harp only on the writings there? Now some member(s) are so pathetically bankrupt intellectually that they have turned into parasites who feed off the highly questionable intellectual integrity of some retired Indian Police Service Officer vis-à-vis the Naga issue.

Since the member(s) concerned have openly declared the source of their self proclaimed knowledge over the Naga issue, I can’t but help think that they are more or less mere parrots, repeating the voice of a bigoted system to undermine the Naga political issue. I am sure that the license to extreme violation of human rights under the guise of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 cannot bring about any superficial or realistic calm over the Nagas. The views of the member(s) concerned would be more substantial if they themselves would come to Naga inhabited areas and do a case-study. First hand views of any issue hold more weight rather than diluted accounts aimed at negating the facts. Or in simple words, come, see and study the ground realities and then judge.

Coming to the case of Oral Tradition of the Nagas being referred to as “hearsay” by the particular member, I deem it as charity to feed the knowledge-starved mind of a pseudo intellectual. Oral tradition is the transmission of cultural material and other knowledge through vocal utterance handed down from generation to generation with the intent to keep the culture and tradition vibrant and safe from erosion or obliteration. Are not the epic poetry of the Iliad and the Odyssey examples of the combined oral literature and oral history of the Greek Civilization before it was recorded in writing? Whereas, on the other hand, “hearsay” is pure and simple rumor or gossip with the intention to indulge in mere idle talk which creates more damage rather than bringing about any benefits.

Comments, from a particular member, who has the traits of a pyromaniac hell-bent on igniting the wrath of the Naga people with seditious comments, are found in many topics relating to the Naga issue. Perhaps the most demeaning comment towards the Naga people and the Naga political issue which I have come across till today is a comment from that particular member which reads like this: “I jeer the idea of sovereignity based on the power-hungry ambitions of a few, imposed on their larger ethnicity (which is but ONE of MANY ethnicities in this country) under the garb of a "difference" based on superficial grounds of race and religion (both of which are to be found in good measure amidst the "others").
and It is my RIGHT to jeer....as long as Im not making personal attacks on anyone.( which is more than what I can say for a lot of the people "posting" in the threads)
I doubt if that right to jeer will be guaranteed in the "promised land" of the divinve-right-invoking insurgents.”

Now, let’s try to assess the brazen display of mental dysfunction from some of these lines:
(1) “…… power-hungry ambitions of a few….”: Who are those few? Care to name them? If the concerned member can’t name those “few”, his claim is no more than an erroneous perception.

(2) “…imposed on their larger ethnicity..”: Imposed? What does the concerned member know of the solidarity towards the Naga political issue? To use the word “imposed” means that the concerned member must have conducted a plebiscite or poll as to how many Naga people actually support the Naga political issue and how many don’t. I seriously doubt he conducted a poll on the matter which compels me to aver that his view is another instance of parasitic feeding off diluted information.

(3) “…….(which is but ONE of MANY ethnicities…): Whoever disputed the fact that there are MANY ethnicities “in this country”?

(4) ….under the garb of a "difference" based on superficial grounds of race…”: Difference on superficial grounds? Ever heard of Article 371 (A) of the Constitution of India? Does the concerned member understand why it was incorporated into Constitution in the very first place? Ever tried reading it? If the particular member has read it, it proves his incapacity to understand. If he has not read it, then it proves his ignorance as well as his arrogance. Further, it’s an irony that the concerned member thinks that the “uniqueness” and the Naga “political issue” is superficial when former Prime Ministers of India like late P.V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have acknowledged the Naga issue as “political” which needs a “political settlement” and recognized the “uniqueness of Naga History.”

(5) “…….It is my RIGHT to jeer….”: Some definitions of “jeer” are “make fun of”, “deride”, “scoff” and “taunt” etc to name a few. So the concerned member is hell-bent on contemptuously provoking the Naga political issue at the cost of all the blood spilt and the pain and suffering faced for more than 50 years. Is this “RIGHT,” which is bereft of any humane approach, but rather fuelled with sarcasm, justified? SARCASM IS THE GREATEST WEAPON OF THE SMALLEST MIND.

(6) “....as long as Im not making personal attacks on anyone.”: Very true. This line proves my point. The concerned member is not making personal attacks on anyone. He is attacking the entire Naga people with his verbal tirade!

It is precisely such kind of successive, egocentric propelled comments on a variety of Naga related issues by irresponsible member(s) which CAUSE dissension in www.kuknalim.com while the reactions of the other members are the resultant EFFECTS. I would like to ask those perpetually cynic member(s) some few questions. “Have you ever been caught in a crossfire and have had to run for your life?” “Have you ever turned a dead body over only to see his brains spilling out and a dead eye staring at you in the face?” “Have you ever seen a man struggling for his life even though his head has been partly blown apart?” The pain that I have felt after witnessing these incidents myself has been more than enough for me to understand in depth why our society needs healing. If I, an unknown person unrelated to the unfortunate victims, can feel this way, imagine the hurt their family members must have felt. Only God knows why He destined their fate to be so, but as a Naga, it pains me to know that the fratricide goes on. Its easy to comment from a distance, but to actually understand and feel what the system is like, you have to be there to witness first hand, live through it, and continue to survive. I hope logic will pierce through the thick veils of conceit worn by some particular member(s) so that they refrain from committing similar mistakes henceforth.

Solution-based approach:

Let us be pragmatic and adopt a solution-based approach to the various issues particularly the ongoing War of Words. Hence this post is necessitated because THIS WAR OF WORDS MUST END. Let us find the solution instead of pointing fingers. Let us try to heal the wounds instead of picking at the scabs. This suggestion goes out to all responsible, matured and understanding members in general and some member(s) in particular who constantly provoke our sentiments in various unwarranted ways as cited above. The solution to the ongoing war of words lies within ourselves. While I respect every individual’s freedom to comment, I request that he/she be responsible and maintain atleast a modi* of decorum while posting their comments. On the other hand, we have numerous challenges to face in the contemporary context. The Nagas have had to bear the onslaught of bullets, ill effects of drugs and alcohol, and in addition to all these problems, the present generation faces the biggest challenge whatsoever to the very existence of mankind: the scourge of HIV/AIDS. The answers to these issues are not easy to find. Let us put our heads together and be the harbingers of change in our society. Put your opinions across, but kindly do not revive the long suffered wounds or racially discriminate your fellow friends. Let’s be diplomatic and humane in our approach and accommodative in spirit. The battery of hate posts directed towards the Maos and the Tangkhuls and others (if any) is totally unwarranted and uncalled for. Let’s refrain from being misanthropic and work cohesively to do away with the thorns of tribalism. As for the Site Administrator and the website being blamed for “promoting” tribalism, I would negate that allegation because it is only meant to create more confusion. If the site was promoting tribalism as alleged, no right thinking person would have continued to be a member. So, on a positive note, I want to suggest a more comprehensive formula. Since www.kuknalim.com represents a community, every member should participate in the tedious task of identifying and weeding out the inflammatory posts instead of leaving the responsibility entirely up to the Site Administrator or the topic Moderators. The basic concept of community participation, in this case, being empowerment of the kuknalim community members to conduct effective policing against anti-social elements besides constructively utilizing the various facilities provided by the site. LET’S JOIN HANDS TO KEEP KUKNALIM CLEAN.

Bottom-line:
We are pointing fingers at each other because of certain members who believe in Chinese whispers! I believe that it lies within our power to be more responsible members with our comments and inculcate a positive outlook towards finding solutions to all the issues that plague our contemporary society. Let not the future generations question us.
I believe that God has created everyone differently with a purpose. Like an artist, he has painted us in various hues and colors. I believe that it has always been and is the honest intention of the founders/administrators of www.kuknalim.com to project us as a beautiful bouquet of wild flowers. Instead of pointing fingers, let us join hands together towards keeping our home on the net cleaner and free from discrimination. Instead of taking a step back, let us come forward in unison towards a common goal – to make www.kuknalim.com an even better home for Nagas on the net.

Let us remain beautifully united in our diversity. Let us put the theatrics to an end and allow good sense to prevail. To err is human but to forgive is divine, it is said. I believe that to err is human, but to admit and rectify one’s own mistake(s) makes one a better person. A wise man learns from his own mistakes. A wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.

P.S: THE POINTS MENTIONED ABOVE ARE NOT MEANT TO IGNITE A HATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANY MEMBER(S) IN ANY WAY BUT IS INTENDED AS A CASE STUDY AND THE QUEST TO BRING AN END TO THE ONGOING BARRAGE OF VERBAL ABUSE SO AS TO FACILITATE A BETTER AND HEALTHIER ATMOSPHERE.

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