Naga National Council Statement: The Nagas Outrageously Rejected Fencing

Statement by Naga National Council (NNC) | January 6, 2017

The Nagas had been living in this land “Nagaland” since thousands of years. The Nagas knew nothing about Burmans and Indians and neither did the Burmans and Indianns know about the Nagas. They came to know the Nagas only in the British Colonial era, and only yesterday they came to occupy our land by forcefully. How then can they have the right to fence in the heart of Nagaland?

The Nagas rejected the cursory boundary drawn by the British in the heart of Nagaland in 1914 without the knowledge of Naga people, and neither recognize the dissection of our land by India and Burma in 1953 after they had emancipated from the yoke of the British Colony. And now also the Nagas outrageously rejected the fencing in the heart of Naga country by alien nations, India and Burma. Because they have no right to fence in between our homes and farms, the hearth and bed room.

Nagaland is not their country, but just occupying by them forcefully. They have no history to prove that an inch of land in Nagaland was belonged to their Kings. Since this is not their country, they have no legal and moral right to fence in the heart of other country. As they are foreigners, one day, they have to go back to their country, such as the British left from  Burma and India. Therefore, what they are doing to fence in the heart of Nagaland will not benefit to them and to the Nagas either, but it will remain forever as a black mark of their occupation in the history.

 W. Shapwon, 

Joint Secretary,

Naga National Council.