'No one suffered like Nagas' !! NPMHR seeks PM's intervention

New Delhi

There may be issues in several states vis-a-vis human rights violation
and social unrest but no community has suffered like the Nagas, said former Congress MP from Assam Kirip Chalhia.

"Naga ki Tarah aisa dur dasha kisi ka nahi hua (No one suffered like
the Nagas)," said Chalhia while addressjng a seminar organised by the
Naga People's Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) in the national capital here on Friday.

Chaliha said, "What were the fundamental points agreed as consensus between the Government of India and the NSCN-IM in 2015 August that should be made public; and what are the points of contention today".

Chaliha is a kin of former Assam Chief Minister, a Congress veteran and freedom fighter B P Chaliha, who worked with the likes of Rev Michael Scott and Jayaprakash Narayan to end the turmoil and bring harmony in Naga hills in the 1960s.

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He suggested that the NPMHR and like minded bodies should try to
organise a meeting with all the MPs from NE under the aegis of North
East MPs Forum to discuss the Naga issue in details so that adequate
pressure could be mounted on the central government to address the
issue.

"May be at the next level, you organise a bigger public meeting and

also an all party meeting," he suggested.

Speaking on the occasion, NPMHR convener Neingulo Krome flayed Home

Minister Amit Shah and also former negotiator and ex-Nagaland Governor

R N Ravi.

He said, "....If the ongoing peace process and a piece meal solution

or agreement is rejected by some parties, things will go out of

control".

Dwelling on various issues involved since the 1960s and the 1970s, he

said when the first ceasefire had ended there was turmoil. "But now,

if this happens again, it will be worse".

Krome accused Ravi of "not respecting his own signature" in the

context of 2015 Framework Agreement; and instead had gone ahead with

the new pact with the NNPG in 2017.

On Home Minister Shah's role Krome said, "Today he is trying to decide

things in his own ways".

The seminar was organised as part of commemoration of the 75th

Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the theme

of the discussions was 'Save The Peace'.

Participants from Tamil Nadu and Sikh activists from Punjab also participated.

 A resolution adopted at the end of three-hour long deliberation said

- "The house expressed concern at the lack of any significant progress

in the peace talks since the signing of the Framework Agreement on 3rd

Aug, 2015".

The house noted that there "have been attempts to retract from the

intended spirit of peace process".

"The house resolves that this stagnation and reversal of Indo Naga

peace process is

detrimental to peace in the Naga areas. Given the geo strategic

significance of the north eastern region, mishandling Indo Naga peace

process is unwarranted. The house, therefore, urges the PM (Narendra

Modi) to personally ensure that the peace talks are successfully

concluded as per the provisions of the Framework Agreement".

 ends