Dimapur, June 30 (MExN): The Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) and Naga Women’s Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) stated that they cannot tolerate, and are “tired” of, “anti people activities” such as the life-attempt on NSF leader, Christopher Ltu. The NCD and NWHD condemned the NSCN cadres in this regard.
The two Dimapur-based organizations have given “full-hearted support to NSF called bandh on 1st July” and appealed to “all Dimapurians to express support for the bandh which is a protest not only against the UGs but also against the duly elected state government which has failed to enforce law and order miserably.”
In a press note from NCD Vice President Vikato Zhimomi, Finance Secretary Joel Nillo Kath and NWHD President Hukheli Wotsa, the organizations have requested “authorities” to declare incidents involving the Naga factions as “pure law and order problem”. They have asked for politicians to find the “spine & will” to allow the police force to engage “these criminals acting the farce as freedom fighters”.
Further the two organizations “reminded” the Naga groups that they have now “run out of excuses and any sort of justifications for their existence”. “The UGs groups are now caricatures of their former selves; a picture of lawlessness, greed, factionalism, and tribalism with all their ranks and files in a rat-race to amass much wealth through illegal taxations and extortions,” they alleged.
The NCD and the NWHD maintained that Naga writers Thepfulhouvi Solo, Kekhrie Yhome, Kaka D. Iralu “do not deserve the thinly veiled threat of the barrel of their guns just because they don’t agree with NSCN-IM, GPRN/NSCN, NSCN (K) brand of nationalism”
In line with the Kohima public rally demand on June 28 to “flush out” cadres of the groups from civilian areas, the NCD and NWHD stated that “the GOIs diabolic policy of allowing UGs a free run hoping to sow contradictions in Naga society with strategic advantages for it vis-a-vis Naga nationalism is malicious and vengeful and negates the principal of constitutional protection of its subjects by the state”.
Additionally, they stated that it is time for Naga civil society, intellectuals, politicians and student community to discuss “this thin line separating the cross-over from revolutionary groups to criminals”.
