NSCN (K) on 21st Century Panglong Conference, Myanmar

Censures move to demand for any alternative other than sovereignty  

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 6 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today issued a clarification on the public consultation initiated by the Council of Naga Affairs and Naga Literature and Culture (Central), Myanmar on July 30 2016 at Khamti, which had resolved to attend the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference and demand for a “Federal Status” under Myanmar constitution.  

Terming the demand for “Federal Status” under Myanmar constitution as “unwarranted and a complete contradiction to the Naga sovereignty struggle,” the NSCN (K) in a statement through its MIP said the early 70 years of Naga’s struggle for sovereign independent nationhood cannot be equated or subjected to demand for mere constitutional reforms under the occupational authority.  

It also explained that the September 13, 2007 United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people (UNDRIP) supported by 144 countries, though a significant international effort to help eliminate human rights violation, discrimination and marginalisation against world’s indigenous population, however, is not legally binding under international law and therefore not a political solution to the Indo-Naga –Myanmar political issue.  

The NSCN (K) therefore said it censures any move to demand for any alternative other than sovereignty and cautioned that it shall not remain a silent spectator to the unfolding “sub-national activities” at the behest of “few vested interests” attempting to misguide the innocent common Nagas.