Imphal, Feb 23 : The leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (K), S.S. Khaplang, today hailed the Kohima meet that aimed at finding a consensus towards “achieving our rightful goal as a people and nation”.
The two-day Naga convention expressed solidarity to the current re-conciliation process. Various Naga tribes, underground groups and churches adopted a resolution and urged all organisations to “genuinely and honestly” implement reconciliation.
Khaplang lauded the Naga organisations, Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), Naga Hoho and its constituent units, for taking the initiative to hold the Naga Convention for Reconciliation and Peace.
“Killing among Naga brothers is most painful. It has also given our enemies the comfort and space to sow seeds of distrust among us. In displaying our domineering attitudes, the commonness of our struggle has suffered,” he said in a statement.
He reminded the Nagas that any political settlement with the Centre depended upon which path the Nagas decide to walk.
“A solution without consensus of all Nagas is a mere wish. What the Nagas witness today is a further fragmentation of our society owing to inflexibility and rigidity of our earthly wisdom,” he said.
“Leaders opposing the cry of the people become recluses in their own rigid world. Let us not become victims of impractical philosophy or principles,” he said.
“I have hurt and I have been hurt beyond tolerance but to dwell on the bitter past only prolongs my bitterness against my fellow brothers. This I have decided to do away with,” he said.
He appealed to all Naga comrades to work as servants of the Naga nation and not as soldiers ready to kill.