[dropcap]I[/dropcap] attended uninvited the 50th Ceasefire, between the Government of India and the Federal Government of Nagaland, Commemoration Service at the Chedema Peace Camp on 6 September 2013 and I was completely, unexpectedly surprised but very happy to meet a Professor in a College in Lucknow, the wife of one of my interesting Officer when I was in the Forest Service. She appeared to have met great Peace in the Green natural Vegetation of Nagaland. I did not tell her the political mess Nagaland is in, lest I spoil her great happiness at seeing the green nature of the State. After the Service, I phoned an old time class friend, a former Minister and now the Chairman of Nagaland Peace Council, whether he has arranged any Peace Commemoration Service I did not hear of. “Yes”, he said, “the Council had a Service in the Peace Centre with the Governor; I shall invite you in future in any big Meeting”. Then I poignantly saw even the one GoI and the FGN Ceasefire Peace Agreement has become two Pieces in Nagaland, -one the Nagaland Peace Centre observes and the other the FGN observes. It is unfortunate how the 6th September 1964 Ceasefire Peace Agreement has become two Pieces in Nagaland. Already the Ceasefire between the GoI and the NSCN (IM) appears to be running into rough waters and seems to have developed two contending Understandings! The younger generations of Nagas may not fully comprehend the things that have happened to the Nagas in the fifties at the hand of the Indian Army. Kaka Iralu has enumerated a lot of the unmentionables in his Book, but many conscience-searing episodes still remain starkly silent, overgrown with nature forever to be lost. The Indian Army was about to make mince meat of the last remnants of the Naga Army; out of the thousands that initially started the Journey of Naga hope, only 69 left unblemished, -not 609 but 69, not even one hundred. And in more than one Tribe, there not a single unblemished person remained! Yet the ‘Remnants’ refused to surrender and were prepared to die unknown, un-mourned and unremembered for the land they loved. Treacherous political cannibalism appeared, Ignorant suspicions and wrong deductions grew up, inadequacies became too big a mill stone in the neck of the Nagas; for many Self-seeking became the best proposition; Nagas were about to be finished. The Indian Army was bent upon finishing the Nagas; they were not interested in any Ceasefire. They would even sabotage the Ceasefire. If there was no Ceasefire, Naga Political history would suffer terrible injury. But the Bible saved the Nagas. God appeared to His Church and some Churchmen saw the terrible end of the Nagas. They created the idea of Ceasefire between GoI and the FGN. Without Peace, Naga Politics can not survive. Nagas do not require Army Leaders: Nagas need Peace Leaders. If Nagas do not preserve Peace, the Naga Society can not produce Peace Leaders. If Naga Society do not produce Peace Leaders, God help Nagaland.
Thepfulhouvi Solo
