Mokokchung  singnal

Recent happenings in Mokokchung and Tuensang districts, where common people have come out openly against the underground forces should act as an eye-opener to those who totally rely on gun power. There is also a message loud and clear that is applicable to the entire North-East. That is people are fed up with mindless violence and senseless killings. It is high time for the terror merchants to heed the signals, realize the futility of violence and join the mainstream for redrassal of their grievances. Guns achieve nothing but only bring out bloodshed and pain. People’s ire against the militants is no sudden development. As a matter of fact, the warning bells were chiming for a while. Not too long ago, people from all walks of life participated whole-heartedly in a bandh against violence. The call for the bandh was given by all political parties of the region, who with their ears to the ground were the first to sense the groundswell of opposition to the culture of violence. But the underground choose to ignorents with lofty ideals is getting blurred. Images of terrorists, who have no concern for any value system, are appearing everywhere. In the past few years, innocent people have fallen prey to the reckless gun as the insurgent turned terrorist is creating unrest, as the forces of destruction and mayhem are fishing in the troubled waters. How soon this will be a thing of the past is any body guess. But what is no longer a matter of conjecture is the increasing aversion of the people to the gun culture and their craving to live in peace and to strive for higher levels of human resource development. This augurs well for the future. So is the manifestation of people’s will.

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