DEFINITION of a PEOPLE and NATION:
A nation is the sum total of millions of people, thousands of villages, hundred or thousands of tribes and communities, who come from the same history, practice the same culture, profess the same religion and politics and who inhabit the same land. A group of people or a few tribes or communities are only parts of the people, not the whole people.
PEOPLE:
People and history are inseparable
People and land are inseparable
People and culture are inseparable
People and politics and inseparable
People and state are inseparable
People and God are inseparable.
SOVEREIGN STATE:
Sovereign state is the giant machine through which people subdue nature. The state makes and unmakes things. It makes money and development. It makes man master of nature, master of the air, the sea and land.
To build a sovereign state, we need millions of people, thousands of villages, tribes and communities. We need land and ocean, hills and valleys, rivers and forests, stones and irons, gas and oil and animals and birds. We need academic institutions and churches, swords and pens, organizations and Governments. The bigger the land and population the better the state; the bigger the number of tribes and communities the better the state; the bigger the rivers and forest the better the state.
VILLAGE-STATE TO NATION-STATE:
Our fathers begun their politics with village-state, but they found that the village-state was too weak to subdue nature. It was too weak to defeat the enemies and protect the people from aggressors. So the movement for nation-state started under the leadership of NNC. But after the failure of NNC, the Naga people continued the struggle under the banner of NSCN.
After decades of fierce confrontations GoI and NSCN entered into a cease-fire agreement in 1997 and engaged in dialogue, which has culminated in the historic Framework Agreement of 3rd August 2015.
THE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT:
The Agreement is based on the uniqueness of Naga history, which means Nagas have never been a party to the Union of India or that of Burma. The government of India has, for the first time, recognized the sovereignty of the Nagas. The Naga people are now a recognized entity. However, for the sake of security, social and commercial interests, the two people will share sovereign power and coexist as two entities. Government of India has also recognized land of the Nagas stating that land and its resources including minerals belong to the Nagas. Nagas are the owner of their land and everything in it. The Nagas and India are entering into a new relationship based on the ‘Framework Agreement.’
IT IS THE TIME OF RECONCILIATION:
This is the time of reconciliation, not fighting; this is the time of building bridge, not wall; this is the time of negotiation, not confrontation; this is the time of cooperation, not opposition; this is the time of reunion, not separation; this is the time of building relations, not destruction of relations and this is the time of embracing, not parting.
The era of the British has gone never to come back. The era of occupation of Nagalim by India and Burma has to be ended to give way to the era of the Nagas.
The era of the Nagas has begun according to the timing of the Lord. No power however big and strong can stop the Nagas from reaching their destination. The Nagas will be blessed in the east, in the west, in the north and south and everywhere. They will be successful in all fields and in whatever they do.
It is the time for the Nagas to start building the nation. Building the damaged psychology of our people, broken relations with our neighboring people and nations through dialogue is a social necessity. Building the war-torn relation between India and the Nagas is indispensable. On top of that building our relation with God is imperative and paramount.
In order to develop our land and move forward it requires of us to build up human resources. And that we need to establish science and technological and other schools, colleges and universities, medical colleges and universities, sports universities, religious universities, cultural institutions so that we grow physically, mentally and spiritually to become a creative people and community.
To become a creative people, we must learn to live by the principle of self-reliance so that we produce our own bread and honey. We will be identified with what we create. What we have invented or created is our identity. We will rebuild everything destroyed by war. We do not have an identity until and unless we produce something made in Nagalim.
