Dimapur, October 30 (MExN): The NSCK (K) today accused the Government of India (GoI) of empowering the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with “un-paralleled extra-constitutional and extra-judicial” powers to “harass, arrest, torture and imprison the Nagas far beyond legal limits.”
“House raids have become a trademark of NIA in Nagaland,” alleged the NSCN (K) in a press release from MIP, NSCN/GPRN, adding that the agency has been “persecuting even the innocent Nagas including the NSCN sympathizers” in indiscriminate manner.
It further maintained that while such “repression” has been tactics of GoI over the years, earlier it passed “unnoticed without international community or United Nation’s intervention due to complete censorship of international press and media coverage and partly due to physical and topographical isolation of Nagaland.”
“Now, with the world watching, the GoI can no longer replicate the past,” the NSCN (K) noted, but has reinvented the tactics by branding “NSCN/GPRN as terrorist organization,” which, according to them, has “re-enforced AFSPA, Terrorist Act, POTA etc in the Naga country.”
In the face of such actions, the Naga Army has “been resisting in self defense” against “forceful militarization,” it said, adding that it had “never resorted to terror methods even against Indian Armed Forces.”
“The Naga Army and NSCN had never ventured out beyond the India occupied Naga territory to attack Indian forces or has caused harm to any Indian citizen within and without or caused damage or destruction of vital installations or properties and assets belonging to Indian Government nowhere within or outside,” it maintained.
However, even recently, “innocent family members, wives and children of NSCN workers are harassed, tortured, homes raided and money and properties stolen and damaged by Indian Forces especially by the NIA.”
Regardless of the endless provocations, the NSCN (K) stated that it had been “maintaining maximum restraint.” But the NSCN (K) cautioned that if the NIA’s “trend” continues, it will be “compelled” to treat Indian citizens in Naga country in the same “indiscriminate” manner as Nagas are being treated by the NIA.
“The Naga’s struggle for freedom is not mere anachronism requiring resuscitation but a live and continuous progression of the people’s aspiration as a whole which cannot be stamped out through Indian government in an overnight,” the NSCN (K) affirmed.
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