Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) has made an open call to signatories of the Covenant of Reconciliation (CoR), the Naga political groups (NPGs), individuals and groups to desist in toto from using violent or extremist language defaming and undermining the shared humanity.
In a statement, the forum said June 13 marked the 14th year of the signing of the CoR, which had helped cease violence amongst different NPGs. It noted that since June 13, 2009, the signatories had revalidated the CoR on five different occasions, the most recent one being signed on September 14, 2022 at Sovima, resolving, “… to refrain from all forms of rhetoric, assumptions, and agendas that are divisive. Such a culture must end immediately.”
According to FNR, the resolve emerged from common convictions that rose above a group’s political purity and self-justification. The forum stressed cultivating and activating what was affirmed on September 14, 2022 and supported by all Naga apex organisations, the Church and the State government.
Pointing out that the agreement of January 14, 2023 between the NNPGs and the NSCN presented the way forward, the forum said it could not be misused, compromised or erased in the hands of any individual or groups.
It called for marking with high definition that “one cannot supersede the law of the Divine” in whose name the CoR was signed.
