Nagalim Voice September-October 2025
TH. MUIVAH’S UNFAILING GRATITUDE
On the occasion of the 79th Naga Independence Day celebration, Th. Muivah, Chief Political Negotiator and General Secretary/Ato Kilonser, National Socialist Council of Nagalim/Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim, at Council Headquarters (CHQ), Hebron, 14th August, 2025, said, “We are reminded that this achievement is a result of the seed planted by our past Naga leaders like T. Aliba Imti, AZ Phizo, T. Sakhrie, Scato Swu, Khodao Yanthan, Isak Chishi Swu and several others who have stood uprightly for the Nagalim history and sovereignty. The leaders of India including Mahatma Gandhi, Shri Rajagopalachari, PV. Narasimha Rao, HD. Deve Gowda, IK. Gujral, Atal Bihari Vaypayee, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi whose understanding and counsel on the Indo-Naga conflict also guided the course of the history and have enabled the official signing of the Amsterdam joint communiqué of July 11,2002 and the Framework Agreement of the 3rd August, 2015 between the Government of India and the NSCN. In this regard, due acknowledgement must also be given to the representatives of the Government of India for the Indo-Naga peace talks for their conclusive contribution towards the signing of the two historic agreements, including Swaraj Kaushal, K. Padmanabhaiah, Oscar Fernandes (former union minister), RS. Pandey and RN Ravi. We also fully acknowledge the role of individuals like noted human rights lawyer and activist Nandita Haksar and others like Michael Van Walt Praag of Kreddha as ‘third party mediators’. They helped sustained the Indo-Naga peace process in difficult times.
He also fully acknowledged the contribution on the Naga tribes and civil society organizations from different places in India and Burma (Myanmar), “I cannot thank them enough for their selfless services and cooperation against all odds as they stood up firmly to the occasion in times of conflict and peace. In this regard, please allow me to acknowledge all the Naga civil societies like Naga Hoho, Eastern Nagaland Peoples Organization (ENPO), Tirap Changlang Longding Peoples Forum (TCLPF), Global Naga Forum (GNF), United Naga Council (UNC) and Naga tribe organizations from Myanmar, Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), Naga women organizations including the Naga Mothers Association (NMA), Naga Women’s Union, Manipur (NWUM), the students fraternity including the Naga Students Federation (NSF), All Naga Students Association Manipur (ANSAM), Naga Student’s Union (Delhi, Shillong, Tirap Changlang Longding), Dimapur Naga Students Union (DNSU), Eastern Naga Student’s Federation (ENSF) and Naga Students Organization (NSO), Myanmar, etc. Last but not the least, we are thankful to several individuals, organizations and committed well-wishers from the mainland India and elsewhere, wherever they are, for their unwavering and unfailing support to the Indo-Naga peace process.”
NSCN as an internationally recognized organization finds support from different organizations, particularly from European -based countries. Muivah expresses his gratitude, “We are also thankful to the international organizations who acted as the main pillars in our international campaign on Nagalim and such support had contributed to signing of the ceasefire on July 25, 1997 and the start of the Indo-Naga peace process between the GoI and NSCN from the 1st August, 1997. In this regard, mention may be made of organizations like the Society for Threatened People, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), KWAI-Support Group for Indigenous Peoples, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and several others. The United Nations (UN) and its various human rights mechanisms including the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples (UNWGIP), Permanent Forum, the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights within the ECOSOC and others provided the much-needed platform for the NSCN and the Naga civil societies to highlight Nagalim situation to the international audience. The NSCN becoming the UNPO member on January 23, 1993 was momentous and ground breaking. Today, the Nagalim national flag stands proudly in the institutions that support human rights and self-determination of nations and peoples”.