The European Parliament making Rules to settle Immigrants in its 28 States, brew resentments in the Member States and propelled Britain to exit from the EU; Hungary began to strongly express the sentiments of the song.
Exodus:
‘This land is mine
God gave this land to me
This brave and ancient land
To me.
And when the morning sun
Reveals her hills and plains
Then I see a land
Where children can run free.
So take my hand
And walk this land with me
And walk the lovely land
With me.
Though I am just a man
When you are by my side
With the help of God
I know I can be strong.
So take my hand
And walk this land with me
And walk the lovely land
With me.
Though I am just a man
When you are by my side
With the help of God.
I know I can be strong
To make this land our home
If I must fight, I will fight
To make this land our own
Until I die, this land is mine.’
The EU is now therefore contemplating even some stiff terms which will make it much more difficult for a Member to leave the Union.
Otherwise, in the European Union, any person from any Member State can move about freely anywhere within in the Union without any Visa. Once a Visa is obtained for Switzerland, for example, with that Visa, One can move about freely in any of the 28 Member Nations. The EU currency is used in any of the Member States.
Universally however, ‘the Freedom to travel and to movement in another Country is strictly controlled.’ In terrorist threatened State like Israel, even a valid Passport for a religious tour is very critically scrutinised in the border check posts before one is allowed to enter the state.
Any Native can move about freely in his own Country, but none of Non-Native can do so. Without a valid Passport and Visa nobody can travel to a Foreign Country even for a short Visit.
The right to move about in a Country is necessarily a Political Right and this right is the inherent right of a sovereign state to insist. The Power of granting travel permit does not belong to the President nor to the Governor; does it not belong to any Bureaucrat. It belongs solely to the State.
Even in private property, the right to roam about in a land belongs only to the owner of the property, otherwise it would be a case of trespass, and in civilized behaviour one does not enter anybody’s property or house uninvited.
The right to an Indigenous Citizenship cannot be taken casually as if it is the right of everybody.
Except for, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal in varying degrees of seriousness, every Indian can move about freely in any state and can stay there, but certain privileges under Art. 371A of the Constitution of India is granted to the Naga of Nagaland State only; not to every Dick and Tom from other states.
One of the most important of these is: The right of Traditional, Customary Practices of the Naga of Nagaland:
i. On Land and Its resources,
ii. On Judicial Procedures.
These rights are available only to Nagas from Nagaland and not to people of other states. The Constitution clearly states that even the Parliament in Delhi can overrule the provision. And the ‘Special Provision’ covers the past, the present and the future legislations. Nothing in the Parliament, without the consent of the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland, can contravene the provision.
These privileges are available only to the Indigenous native Naga tribes of Nagaland and not to Naga tribes of other states.
The word ‘Indigenous’ means ‘Native’ and Native means ‘Things that are Natural to the Land’.
The Rongmei are not native of Nagaland State, they cannot be recognized as ‘Indigenous Tribe’ of Nagaland state because they do not naturally belong to Naga Hills, now Nagaland State. This is true not for the Rongmeis alone, this is true for all Naga tribes from outside the State.
The Naga from outside the state can come and stay in Nagaland, he/she is not prevented from staying in Nagaland, but he/she is not an ‘Indigenous Tribe’ of Nagaland because he/she is not a natural native of the State. An INDIGENOUS has to be a NATIVE and NATIVE has to NATURALLY OF THE PLACE.
Nobody can artificially earn to be natural of a place; it has to be only by a batural process, not by artificial means.
A Rongmei can be a domicile of Nagaland through a Legislative Process in the Assembly by which means he/she can have his/her residence in Nagaland but he/she cannot buy land in Nagaland without the permission of the Government.
The Right of Indigenous or Native is not something ‘earnable’ artificially; it has to be only through nature. Rongmei or for that matter, none of the Naga from outside Nagaland can be Indigenous to Nagaland. Unfortunate but that is the Law.
Thepfulhouvi Solo. I F S Retd.
(RR -68)
Principal Secretary
Nagaland
