Kohima: The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) has once again reached out to the Naga public for its ‘active’ guidance, suggestions and prayers, intending for the Naga reconciliation to be ‘inclusive, participatory and transparent’.
In a release the FNR said this comes at a time when despite a declaration of reconciliation, ‘even today, factional violence in its many forms–abductions, killings, provocations, justifications and threats–continue to undermine the process’.
‘The Naga leaders are found wanting in demonstrating their statesmanship and respecting the people’s desire for reconciliation. Rather than working together to build ONE Naga House, the political groups are busy building their own respective houses, thereby, further fragmenting the reconciliation process,’ the release said.
The task of the FNR, it noted, is to build One Naga House founded on Naga historical and political rights.
‘This allows for the Naga political groups to reconcile in the spirit of forgiveness and mutual respect; to acknowledge mistakes while also recognizing their achievements and contributions made at various stages of the political history,’ the release said.
While acknowledging that ‘no single process is perfect or satisfactory to all circumstances and parties involved,’ the difficult choice of ‘personal and group commitments are necessary in order to move forward together based on the lessons learnt from the past and by taking inspiration in the positive political steps that have sustained and strengthened the Naga movement since its inception,’ the FNR statement asserted. (UNI)
