Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 23:
While appreciating the resolution of the Zeliangrong people�s convention held at Jalukie on November 15 to protect, preserve and maintain the unique territorial existence of the Zeliangrong traditional and ancestral land, the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) took strong exception to the unscrupulous expression such as �unflinching support to the ongoing peace process Isak-Muivah� as reportedly found mention in the resolutions.
A statement issued by Munsin Panmei of FGN Zeliangrong region, Publicity and Information Dept asserted that �unflinching support� with regard to the ongoing peace process was never and will never be the voice of the Zeliangrong people as it only a process to sell out Naga national rights.
That the Zeliangrong people have been steadfast in defending the Naga sovereignty and their ancestral land is known to the Baudi leaders and as such the alleged treacherous act of IM group can never be supported by the Zeliangrong people, the FGN noted.
Any public leader or citizen of the Zeliangrong region supporting such perfidious act will be treated as a traitor, it cautioned.
Citing the reported statement of Th Muivah that �he now stands for a special federal relationship with India�, the FGN questioned the Zeliangrong Baudi leaders their rationale behind extending unflinching support to the peace process of IM group.
Stating that hundreds of Zeliangrong people have made supreme sacrifices for the sovereignty of Nagaland in the last more than half a century, the FGN again asked the Baudi leaders if they are attempting to betray their own people.
The resolution of the convention is like adding fuel into burning fire and as such, the Baudi leaders should be held responsible for more killings in Zeliangrong region, it warned.