A PRAYER FROM EXOTIC TRIBE!

THOSE ARE THE TIME WHEN WE CRY

When will our time come? will our waiting be forever, to be free???

Top NSCN (I-M) leaders Thuingaleng Muivah and Isak Chishi Swu arrived here tonight to hold sustained and intensive dialogue with the Centre on contentious issues...including 'Greater Nagaland', for an amicable and honourable solution to the five-decade-old insurgency.

They arrived at 2315 hrs by a KLM flight from Amsterdam.

Nearly 2,000 of us, Naga students from Delhi and Nagaland along with members from civil society groups -- Naga People's Movement for Human Rights, Naga Students Federation, Naga Mother's Assosciation and Naga Hoho accorded a colourful civic reception to the Naga leaders and welcomed them in their traditional fashion.

Within two days of their arrival, they call on to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil as part of the seven-year-old peace process to resolve the prolonged insurgency, official sources told UNI.

This the first meeting between the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government and the NSCN (I-M) leaders in India. They had last visited India in January 2003 during which they held talks with the top Indian leadership. Mr Muivah and Mr Swu have held nine rounds of peace talks with the Centre on various foreign locations in the past.

The leaders were originally scheduled to visit India earlier this year which was postponed due to the Lok Sabha polls. After the Congress returned to power in last May, two rounds of talks have been held in Bangkok during which the ceasefire was extended for another year from August one.

They also learnt to have sought meetings with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP president L K Advani, CPI veteran A B Bardhan and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, the sources said. The Naga leaders are also likely to meet Rama Pilot, the wife of late Union Minister Rajesh Pilot who had played a crucial role as Prime Minister's special emissary to the Naga peace talks, and former chief negotiator Swaraj Kaushal.

''Although no immediate permanent solution could be arrived in this visit, nevertheless it is important to maintain the momentum of the peace process. Sustained and structured dialogue would be held to find out means to resolve the prolonged insurgency,'' the sources pointed out.

''As this would be the first meeting between the NSCN(I-M) leadership and the Manmohan government, the talks would help to create better understanding between the two sides and strengthen the peace process,'' I hopeid.

'Their visit to India last year was a breakthrough in itself and created better understanding between the two sides which has helped to sustain the dialogue,''

''The expressed purpose visit of the collective leadership aims at hastening the pace of the ongoing peace process in the search for lasting solution to the long-delayed Indo-Naga political conflict,''

We've waited really long too long, so i hope and pray that something come out of these.

KUKNALIM (It means long live)

MAYOSORO DELHI.

NAGA PREAMBLE

We, the people of Nagalim, solemnly acknowledge that the Sovereignty over the earth and the whole universe belongs to the Almighty God alone, and the authority of the people to be exercised in the territory is the sacred trust from God, who sustained our forefathers, the national workers and our people through the years of trials, and having committed to the trust of popular sovereignty as declared in the Manifesto of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim on January 31, 1980 to constitute Nagalim into an Independent Sovereign Christian Socialist Democratic Republic, we hereby adopt and anact this amended Yehzabo of March 21, 1980 on this sixth day of the month of April in the year Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-six Anno Domino in the National Hoho held at the Gilgal Camp.