The following Khalistan Calling newsletter has been published in
the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of
the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI KALA, (Issue of
July 05, 2001 : Vol. 17 ; No. 27). (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/)
It was also published in the first week of July in the Vancouver-based
PUNJAB GUARDIAN, Toronto-based SANJH SAVERA, Calgary-based SIKH VIRSA
and numerous other Punjabi/English weekly and monthly publications which cater
to the three million strong Sikh diaspora in Europe, Africa, Asia and
Australia. It can be viewed on the Khalistan Affairs Centre web site:http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07052001.htm. The Overseas Sikhs,
unlike their 19 million compatriots captive in India, are free and prosperous
and they are determined - as they believe it is their destiny and pray for it
every day; Raj Karay Ga Khalsa; Sikhs will rule - to carve a sovereign,
democratic, egalitarian Sikh buffer state of KHALISTAN in South Asia,
stretching from the Jumna river on the East to the Pakistan border on
the West, China on the Northeast and Kashmir on the North.
Khalistan Calling newsletter dated July 05, 2001.
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A CHRISTIAN BUFFER STATE ON THE
INDO-BURMESE BORDER!
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OVERSEAS SIKHS OFFER SUPPORT FOR
AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN CHRISTIAN NAGALAND
BY
Dr. Amarjit Singh
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DC: July 5, 2001: The Naga Freedom movement,
India’s oldest (1948) and most powerful Christian insurgency (which is
considered by Delhi as the 'mother of all separatism' in India) has served
notice on the Indian government through its eloquent spokesman, Thuingaleng
Muivah, 66, that; "If peaceful solution cannot be reached within the
ceasefire period, we will be bound to go back to square one", and again
take up arms for a separate country of Nagaland on the Myanmar (Burmese)
border. We Sikhs welcome and hale this declaration as we too want an
independent sovereign country of Khalistan - from the River Jumna to the
Pakistan border - and have no wish to be part of the so-called Brahmin
Castocracy - dystopian India - which was described so eloquently by Mr. Winston
Churchill to be 'as much a country as the Equator'.
Mr. Thuingaleng
Muivah, General Secretary of The National Socialist Council of Nagaland
(NSCN. I-M) told the Press Trust of India (PTI) in Bangkok, Thailand, last week
in an interview - (http://www.timesofindia.com/today/25indi17.htm) about the latest ceasefire
extension in the border state of Nagaland (area 16,500 sq. km) that;
"the next step would be to find an acceptable solution to the Indo-Naga
issue which has seen over 53 years of confrontation (and bloodshed) in Eastern
India. If the Indian authorities and the Nagas would not understand the true
nature of this issue it will be very difficult to talk."
When asked about
the Indian press reports (disinformation) about a 'greater Nagaland' demand
which rumour has caused apprehensions among the Manipuris and Assamese in
Eastern India (there are over 200 distinct communities in India's seven
Northeastern states - which sit astride Bangladesh connected by a 15 mile wide
strip of land to India called the Siliguri strip bequeathed by Mountbatten to
Nehru - among whom the morally repugnant Indian rulers play the 'Divide and
rule' game) Muivah is quoted as having said that: " Nagas are not
living in anybody else's territory but in their own, so the question of
'claiming' any territory does not arise. We don't have greater Nagaland nor do
we have smaller Nagaland. We just have the land that belongs to us from times
immemorial. If our brothers Meities and Assamese interpret
ceasefire as more than ceasefire, it is their own creation, and we will not be
responsible for anything that may arise there from."
Asked why he was
opposed to Nagaland being a part of the Indian Union, Muivah said that;
"we Nagas fear that we would lose our identity. We fear that we Christians
Nagas will lose the right to live on our own. Before 1947 there was not a
single Indian or Englishman in Nagaland. Only one Punjabi had come in as a
businessman. Today there are five hundred thousand Indians there. If the Indian
government would not understand the true nature of this issue then it will be
very difficult to talk." Recent protests against the extension of the
Nagaland ceasefire between the Central government's occupation army and the
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isaac-Muivah) have drawn blood in
Manipur as the Manipuris were angered with rumours of a Greater Nagaland demand
- a rumour fanned by government agencies for obvious reasons.
Mr. Muivah,
66, who was educated in Shillong, now wears the 'mantle' of the legendry Naga
leader Dr. Phizo who died some years ago. Muivah has been in Bangkok for
the past year facing trial in a Thai court on the charge of travelling on a
fake passport. Mr. Muivah's predicament has aroused sympathy in the
powerful Sikh community in Bangkok who look upon the Naga leader as a fellow
freedom fighter. We urge the Sikh diaspora to follow the lead of the Bangkok
Sikhs and offer hospitality to the Naga revolutionary if and when called upon
to do so. According to the PTI report in Times of India Muivah
claimed that his faction "had supporters in South East Asia, Europe, the
U.S. and Canada." In September 1998 Prime minister Vajpayee and his
principle secretary Brajesh Mishra are also said to have met Muivah in
Paris, France, when the two were on their way back from the U.N. which resulted
in the current Nagaland ceasefire.
The Indian rulers
have not understood, or do not want to understand, the raison d'etre of the
insurgency in which the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) is
engaged. The educated (literacy rate over 70%) but warlike freedom-loving
Christian Nagas represented by the NSCN wants the Naga areas near the Burmese
border - which happen to be closer to Bangkok, Thailand, and Kunming, China,
than they are to New Delhi - recognized as a sovereign independent territory
with no outside interference where they can live in peace. Please see Khalistan
Calling dated February 21, 2001: (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc02212001.htm) .
We Sikhs respect
that noble thought and assure our Naga Christian brothers of our unflinching
support for their right of national self-determination enshrined in the U.N.
charter. We condemn the Indian rulers Machiavellian tactics of divide and rule
in Nagaland under which the Indian occupation army has resorted to dishonest
ethno-political manipulation. This tactic calls for state-sponsored selective
arson, rape and murder which has been going on in Nagaland even after the truce
which first came into effect in 1997. We Sikhs, faced with a similar situation
in occupied Punjab where outsiders are being imported to change the ethnic
composition of the Sikh homeland, empathise with the Nagas when they speak
about the flood of immigrants which is overwhelming their beautiful homeland.
Long live an independent Christian Nagaland.
Khalistan Zindabad
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