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DIMAPUR, MAY 29
THERE appears a marked lack of interest among Naga youths in the report that the government of India would be offering a solution in the form of the Mizoram Accord to solve the Indo-Naga political issue.
The Calcutta-edition of The Telegraph’s Thursday reported Thursday that the government of India was likely to arrange a state-governance system where leaders of the armed group the NSCN (IM) would lead the state.
government of India and the NSCN (IM) has been in truce for about 17 years after peace talks began with the separatist group in 1997.
part of the formula, NSCN (Isak-Muivah) chairman Isak Chishi Swu — and not general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah — will become the chief minister of Nagaland, taking along some of his close followers in the council of ministers, and will face fresh elections within six months,” The Telegraph had reported.
However, till late in the night there has been no response worth its name even on the social networking sites on the internet – a place usually rife with Naga youths and their opinions about current happenings.
Normally, even the most insignificant of news or current events related with the Naga political issue or the underground groups receive heated responses – usually vehement and negative reactions – from the lakhs of Naga internet users. However, most interestingly this time, even for something as hated as the underground groups, who draw only the criticism and cynicism from youths usually, nobody was bothered about the news.
The Naga Blog, believed to be the largest active group among Naga communities on the internet, received three shared-links of the news report early in the day. The group has more than 40, 000 youths, young professionals, as well as senior citizens from across India as members. However, the focus of the youths’ discussions was mostly on other issues such as extortion and crimes in the state, discussions about the ACAUT movement against extortion by the underground groups, as well as on topics about social work and philanthropic activities. Only around 9:00 PM or so, three or four members had left a brief, dry comment or two. The currently most active discussions in the forum are about the ACAUT’s drive to stop “illegal taxation”, corruption and extortion in the state.
The Naga Spear, another group on Facebook with more than 17, 000 members showed some reaction but most wither either in humor or general comic antics instead of discussions. There were a few expressions of surprise, and some in jest. But most responses were trite cynicism either against the NSCN (IM), or the government of India, and general discussions about the degeneration of the political movement, and crimes against Naga civilians today by the Naga armed groups.
The blogosphere was quiet too. There are barely any Naga bloggers or bloggers from Nagaland on the internet except for one or two serious journalists who blog. However, the few that were, have yet to blog about the news at this time.
The websites of the state’s English newspapers Nagaland Post, Eastern Mirror, Nagaland Page, and The Morung Express were also eerily quiet with literally no one responding to the news. There was also literally no response on the Telegraph’s website as well on syndicated news agencies news coverage on the report.
