There Is No Permanent Thing Except For Tears And Fears (opinion).

There is no permanent thing except for tears and fears (Opinion).

By Nirendra dev
New Delhi Dec 7 : .Things have come full circle again.

 There Is No Permanent Thing Except For Tears And Fears (opinion).-TeluguStop.com

What has happened between 1995 and 2021? Over 26 years.


This columnist was 25 then and a bachelor; and today – I am a father of a doting daughter and on the wrong side of 50.

The Nagas were waiting for a Christmas gift and peace and solution to the decade old insurgency issue.

The Home Ministry mandarins said the peace talks initiated in 1997 during the tenure of I.K.Gujral has been elected Prime Minister.

Instead of celebrating the Prince of Peace’s birthday on December 4, three weeks prior, innocent Naga lives were taken.

It is possible to argue that insurgency or military operations often work together like a vicious circle.

On November 13, 2021 in Churachandpur, Manipur, Colonel ViplavTripathi, his wife, and their nine-year old boy were ambushed and killed.

Violence swept through Mon district in Nagaland in less than a month.

Two families were responsible for four of the victims.Two brothers were killed.

Thapwang and Langwang were sons of one Leiwang while Yeihwang and Shomwang belonged to the family of another villager Chemwang.

Why guns tend to have say?

In the words of veteran Naga leader S.C.Jamir: “The state of Nagaland was born out of tears and blood and through much pain and travails.”

Things are not different after decades of murder and arson.December 4, 2021 will be remembered as the Black Day in which 15 Nagas lost their identities.

The worst part is that the victims were innocent Konyak tribe coal miners.The merciless killing took place at the hands of security forces.

“For decades now the Naga people have been demanding withdrawal of AFSPA but it continues.Y.Z.says that he cannot understand why the killings have continued after peace negotiations between Naga groups, the Government of India, and began in 1997.Ovung of the Lotha Baptist Church in Dimapur.

Standing in Lok Sabha, appearing pensive and embarrassed, Home Minister Amit Shah said that it was a case of “mistaken identity”.
Other people were killed later.
Others lost their lives later.

In both the Houses of Parliament, Shah expressed “regrets” and extended condolences to the bereaved families.

It is not for the first time such a bungled operation took place in the northeast.

In Nagaland itself, another such ‘Black Day’ was March 5, 1995.Paradoxically, S.C.Jamir was the Chief Minister and the incumbent state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio – was then a dutiful Congressman and a trusted lieutenant of Jamir.

The incident had claimed eight lives, including few youngsters, when Rashtriya Rifles returning from election duty in the neighbouring state of Manipur went berserk in the southern part of Kohima mistaking a “tyre burst” to an ambush.

This journalist was inside AIR, Kohima, newsroom that fateful day and made a miraculous escape.

We were four in that room when bombs flew over the small tinned building we were in.I was accompanied by a Lotha Naga journalist, one Keralite AIR employee and two Kuki gentlemen.

We had taken refuge under a table.Four people from different socio-political backgrounds and linguistic backgrounds were united by the fear of death.We were all shivering, it was obvious.

Did I get it right, “Dar Sab Ko Lagata Hai “.,” as the popular commercial ad says.
#@##My aging parents had summoned me back home in West Bengal but native Nagas remained clueless for days not knowing what was stored in their fate under the guise of combing operation and retaliatory violence.

My aging parents had summoned me back home in West Bengal but native Nagas remained clueless for days not knowing what was stored in their fate in the name of combing operation and retaliatory violence.

Two journalists (non-Nagas) belonging to the PTI and UNI later had to leave/flee state capital Kohima permanently and the then Deputy Commissioner Kohima, L.V.Reddy was killed few days later.

The journalists had to flee because they had reported that it was “reciprocation” action by the Rashtriya Rifles and Reddy’s fault line was – he was quoted in the agency dispatches.

One of the journalists later went missing mysteriously either from Sikkim or Kolkata.

In my book “The Talking Guns: North East India”, published in 2008, I had written: “The tension was palpable as reports suggested that Nagas would avenge this ‘Indian insult’ from non-Nagas and conflicting media reports only added fuel to fire.”

This unfortunate episode should have been avoided.In today’s social-media hyped world, how did forces and the personnel believe that their actions and misadventure would go unrecorded?

The government is stating the obvious that a Military Court of Inquiry has been ordered and also an SIT probe would be conducted.

The wrong doers ought to be punished in these cases.

Did the Rashtriya Rifles officers and soldiers were punished, one does not know.

The episode has brought the debate on Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) back in the public fore.

” The draconian law AFSPA allows for the killing of people on suspicion.It has once more prematurely ended so many valuable lives.

This incident is a reminder of what our older folk have faced in yester-years,” laments Baptist Naga leader, Rev V Atsi Dolie.

In July 2021, opposition leaders had penned a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind to take actions to withdraw some of the draconian and black laws.

These include the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, (UAPA); section 124A on ‘sedition’ of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era legislation; the National Security Act (NSA) and the Public Safety Act (PSA) and Disturbed Area; and the AFSPA.

The letter was written on the background of the death of Father Stan Swamy.

However, those of you who have been following northeast have had a different experience.During the tenure of Atal Bihari Valpayee in Manipur, one Chief Minister demanded that the Disturbed Areas Act (AFSPA) and Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) be withdrawn.

However, when a top general met him in Delhi and said, “we are withdrawing from Manipur as you desire”, the said politician had shot back: “What will happen to the law and order situation then”.

The moral of the lesson is – nobody really has a short cut to the solution to some of these complex questions.

The military treatment of the malady has been that the only language the ultras understand is hardcore counter-terrorism.

The other side also plays havoc.

My friend Lelie Legisie was left with serious injuries after the explosion.That explosion had left my senior journalist friend Lelie Legisie maimed.

The state capital Kohima had no public cinema hall since then.

(Nirendra Dev is a New Delhi-based journalist.

He is also author of books, ‘The Talking Guns: North East India’ and ‘Modi to Moditva: An Uncensored Truth’)


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