Chumoukedima, Nagaland, November 22 (HBTV): A senior leader of the armed group NSCN-IM has said that any solution to the Naga political issue without a ‘Naga flag’ and constitution will be a ‘repetition of past mistakes.’

Member of the NSCN-IM’s collective leadership, Rh. Raising, issued a statement stating that the faction’s chief negotiator general secretary Th. Muivah had said any solution without a flag and constitution would be unacceptable to the Naga people.   

“Solution without Naga flag and constitution would be a repetition of the past mistakes. This battle will decide our future. We cannot afford to lose it. If we lose this battle, our land, our identity, our culture, our literature, our history, our politics, our religion, our future and everything of us will fall from us.”   

‘Our survival strategy lies in resistance to the aggressors or we perish,’ Raising said. 

The statement stated that ‘enemies in the form of Naga traitors tried to finish the NSCN.’ 

“Enemies in the name of Khaplang tried to liquidate the Naga revolutionary patriots, but we survived by his grace. Enemies in coalition with the enemies of the Naga people tried to uproot the NSCN, but we survived by his grace.”     

“Again enemies of all hues have started forming coalition forces to give a final blow to the NSCN, but we will stay the course in the name of the Lord, God of the Nagas. We cannot run away from our country, from our people and from our God. We do not fear any power that be because the mighty name of the Lord is with us,” Raising stated. 

“Let us look up to the Lord and rebuild our faith. Victory of a battle is decided by the Spirit of the Lord, not by might nor by power of man. Ours is the Lord’s battle.”