In­dige­nous Naga peo­ple, liv­ing in the North­east of the In­dian sub-con­ti­nent and the North-west­ern of Burma -pre­sent-day Myan­mar, strug­gling for the right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion, protest­ing dur­ing the G20 For­eign Min­is­ters meet in Delhi, have sought third-party in­ter­ven­tion to re­solve the pro­tracted Indo-Naga con­flict with the hope that it will pro­vide a just and last­ing so­lu­tion to ful­fill the right­ful as­pi­ra­tions of the Naga peo­ple.

The Indo-Naga con­flict has seen the loss of thou­sands of lives, dis­place­ment of mil­lions, and ha­rass­ment to one and all, es­pe­cially wom­en­folk and chil­dren, with a vastly neg­a­tive im­pact on the so­cio-eco­nomic de­vel­op­ment of the re­gion, says the Naga Stu­dents Union, Delhi which or­ga­nized the protest march.

“We be­lieve that a neu­tral third-party me­di­a­tor could pro­vide an un­bi­ased plat­form for ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the In­dian gov­ern­ment and the Naga lead­ers, lead­ing to a sus­tain­able peace agree­ment.”

Not very far from the venue of the G20 For­eign Min­is­ters meet­ing in Delhi, the Na­gas liv­ing in Delhi held a peace­ful demon­stra­tion near the Rash­tra­p­ati Bhawan -Pres­i­dent House.

“We be­lieve that a neu­tral third-party me­di­a­tor could pro­vide an un­bi­ased plat­form for ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the In­dian gov­ern­ment and the Naga lead­ers, lead­ing to a sus­tain­able peace agree­ment.”

The demon­stra­tors called for the at­ten­tion of promi­nent in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions, in­clud­ing the United Na­tions, Eu­ro­pean Union (EU), and mem­bers of the UN Se­cu­rity Coun­cil to dis­cuss the Indo-Naga con­flict and help bring the In­dian gov­ern­ment once again on the ne­go­ti­a­tion table as there has been no fol­low up on the agree­ment signed be­tween the In­dian gov­ern­ment in the pres­ence of Prime Min­is­ter Modi and the Naga NSCN leader Is­sac Muivah.