NATIONAL SOCIALIST COUNCIL OF NAGALIM
Alee Affairs (Foreign Affairs)
Nagalim 80th Independence Day
The 80th Nagalim national independence day of August 14, 1947 was celebrated all over Nagalim and elsewhere. The Naga civil societies took a politically correct step declaring their non-acceptance of the August 15, 1947 India’s independence day. The boycott and total shut down in the Naga areas on August 15, 2026 was a powerful message showing their rejection of India’s colonization of Nagalim and its narrative of Nagalim history as India’s “internal law and order issue”.
One of the predominant and central political agenda of national struggles around the world is the resistance to the colonial interpretation of history that are consciously created and nurtured to subjugate peoples and nations. For instance, the stories of voyagers who have been romanticized and credited for the discovery of new continents including Christopher Columbus are not very popular figures among the subjugated peoples and nations as it opened the way for the colonization of the indigenous peoples and it was the root of oppression. Today, the international communities have called for a change and review of such distorted histories to eliminate colonialism and the roots of oppression.
Nagalim is a victim of the colonial history, whereby, India and Burma claimed that they have inherited Nagalim from the British. Interpreting Nagalim as their internal matter has been the primary justification of militarizing Nagalim and that has led to the violent military conflict and genocide of the Naga people. In the ongoing Indo-Naga political negotiation between the GoI and the NSCN, with the official signing of the July 11, 2002 Amsterdam Joint Communiqué and the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement, the GoI, who has been consciously propagating the Nagalim national struggle as “secessionist” and its “internal matter”, has officially recognized and acknowledged the unique history and sovereignty of Nagalim. With the signing of these two agreements the GoI has officially recognized and acknowledged that the conflict between India and Nagalim is a political conflict of two entities and not the internal matter of India.
The NSCN Chief Political Negotiator and Ato Kilonser, Th. Muivah on certain occasion stated that there are thousands of problems being created by Nagas themselves and these have shaped into problematic historical forces and divided the Nagas. In his independence day speech he mentioned that Nagas are divided on two ideological line, one set of Nagas believe in their history, the other does not. He emphasized that those who believe that Nagalim belongs to the Nagas are the right people to decide Naglaim’s future and they will own Nagalim. Without any ambiguity he has explicitly emphasized that the Indo-Naga political agreement must be according to the uniqueness of Nagalim history, for Nagalim was/is never a part of India or Burma either by consent or by conquest. The NSCN Chief Political Negotiator and Ato Kilonser, Th. Muivah concluded that July 11, 2002 Amsterdam Joint Communiqué and the official recognition of Nagalim unique history by the GoI was the most realistic step taken for an honourable solution. In his interview to UNPO News, May-July 2002 he outlined this fact:
“The joint communiqué of the 11 July 2002, Amsterdam is significant for both the parties in that it officially recognizes the very point indispensable to the real start of the political negotiation. It is the first realistic step ever taken towards working out an honorable solution to the long-drawn-out Indo-Naga issue. For it is futile to talk of solution without recognizing the facts of history. It is futile to give efforts so long as truth is kept negated; it is futile too, to seek solution despising genuine aspiration of the people concerned. The guts to face realities are therefore essential to solve problems. We praise the Indian leadership for the right step taken. We see the shrewdness in the recognition of “the unique history and situation of the Naga’s,” although it has taken too much time. It is a broad-based agreement. With this, we feel, we can now get off to a more realistic start.”
Late Chairman Isak Chishi Swu and the Chief Political Negotiator and Ato Kilonser, Th. Muivah, of the NSCN/GPRN had on several occasion assured that the Naga people will be consulted before the final political agreement is signed. Among the NSCN/GPRN leadership who have saved the Naga nation from perishing together with the 1975 Shillong Accord, General Secretary – Ato Kilonser, Th. Muivah is alive and in the ongoing political negotiation through his statesmanship the GoI and the NSCN have officially signed the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement. In the ongoing Indo-Naga political talks there is no ambiguity in his political position regarding Nagalim’s unique history and sovereignty. He has made it very clear that the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement is between two entities and hence, the political agreement must be of the two entities. He has also stated that it is the GoI who has betrayed the Nagas and destroying the important political steps already taken in the ongoing Indo-Naga political peace process between the GoI and the NSCN, including the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement. He has concluded that the GoI has betrayed and lost its political will to implement the letter and spirit of the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement. It is therefore imperative that in order to conclude an honourable and acceptable political agreement between the GoI and the NSCN, the GoI must redeem itself and exercise sincere political will to implement the letter and spirit of the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement.
The NSCN Chief Political Negotiator and Ato Kilonser, Th. Muivah has emphasized the following according to the letter and spirit of the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement:
First, the final political agreement to be concluded from the ongoing political negotiation between the GoI and the NSCN shall be according to the letter and spirit of the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement, duly recognizing and acknowledging the Nagalim national flag and national constitution.
Second, the NSCN stands for an acceptable and honourable political agreement, wherein, the mutually agreed “sovereign powers” from the political negotiation shall be based on letter and spirit of the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement. Hence, in all the matters our own affairs, as mutually agreed upon, Nagalim shall be sovereign.
Third, the mutually agreed “sovereign powers” concluded from the political negotiation shall constitute the constitution which shall be called Yehzabo/ Nagalim national constitution.
Fourth, separate Nagalim national flag and separate Nagalim national constitution shall be the basis of sharing sovereign power, not the constitution of India. Therefore, the sovereign Nagalim flag and sovereign Nagalim constitution are non-negotiable. and the NSCN shall stand to the last defending them, come what may.
Fifth, the mutually agreed “sovereign powers” concluded from the negotiated political agreement between the two entities shall be implemented and enforced under the Nagalim national flag and Nagalim national constitution.
Sixth, the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement was officially signed between two entities and therefore, the “New relationship of peaceful co-existence” is of two entities, not the constitution of India.
Kuknalim!
External Publicity Wing (EPW)
Alee Affairs-East, NSCN/GPRN
August 17, 2026