Federal Government of Nagaland and Naga National Council to record atrocities during Naga freedom struggle since 1950s.
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DIMAPUR — The Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) has stated that in the long struggle for freedom, Nagas have experienced “unimaginable atrocities and brutality” when external forces struck the nascent Naga nation on its soil from the 1950s.
In a press release, the FGN informed that the Naga National Council (NNC) and FGN will document the atrocities committed. The initiative is described as a Naga national undertaking of collective memory in remembering and recording the atrocities.
“We will remember the lives of individuals who selflessly and voluntarily gave their resources, who gave their life-long years of inimitable services to serve the people and who made the supreme sacrifice and laid down their lives for the national cause.
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This is a responsibility owed to the generation of our parents, our grandparents, to ourselves, and to the future generation as a commitment to our struggle, to freedom and to human dignity, because when people stop telling stories, a nation ceases to exist.”
The FGN further stated that it would undertake the process with solemnity, honour and commitment, and that the undertaking would be coordinated and carried out with the support and involvement of all Nagas — young and old, and with the participation of the village-republics in every region of the Naga country.
“This is our bounden duty. God is our witness and guide. May God give us the courage, tenacity and integrity to honour the truth,” it added.