Isak says Dialogue, not Might, for Solution

Dimapur : The chairman of the NSCN (IM) today said to have asserted that “we rule out violent means” and rather, dialogue should be engaged to solving issues.

The statement comes in the wake of yesterday’s reported statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram expressing reservations on the “unending ceasefire” with the outfit and that it has “gone on for too long”.

According to a copy of Isak Chishi Swu’s speech on the outfit’s “raising day”, received here, he also condemned “any attempt at settlement of the issue through military might”.

This approach has proved a futile exercise, he said. “This is the era of democracy and we are committed to settlement of all human problems through dialogue based on mutual respect, understanding and recognition of rights. We also believe that there is no problem, which we cannot solve through discussions” Swu’s speech said.

The outfit’s chairman also observed that “whether the Naga people want to join the Union of India or that of Myanmar or be free, it is their divine right to decide it by themselves”.

“In the matter of approach to the confronting problem, NSCN is deeply committed to political solution and we will continue to do so” Swu stated. Saying that “we” are not “begging freedom from India or Myanmar or for that matter from any others”, Swu asserted that the freedom of a people “is inbuilt and it is our inherent right” and “we are not asking territory from any other states”.

The NSCN (IM) leader said “we have our own territory inherited from our fathers” and the “good Lord has created the earth for all, big or small and even the smallest animal and nation have their own share in it”.

He expressed belief in what he called the ‘inter-dependent relationship’ of people and nations in as much as everything on earth “is inter-related and nothing stands in isolation”.

The NSCN (IM) leader said “we” do not “nourish enmity towards any of our neighbors particularly India and Myanmar”. Rather, he claimed, “we have been good neighbors” from time immemorial and “we will continue to maintain that spirit”.