Dimapur, Nov 13 (MExN): The NSCN-IM has strongly condemned the killing of ‘terrorist cold-blooded killing of harmless, blameless innocent people’ in the name of nationalism, stating that no justification can supplement the killing of the innocent.
An NSCN-IM MIP release stated that the NSCN-K’s “ominous claws of communalism have once gain cast its shadow over innocent people”. It strongly condemned the November 11 abduction and subsequent killing of Enoch Shinglai from the Tangkhul community, by what the NSCN-IM stated was by the NSCN-K by falsely accusing him of being an informer. The MIP release clarified that the victim was never associated with the NSCN-IM in any manner or way “but has become an innocent victim of the blood-thirsty Khaplang outfit in their intent to spread fear psychosis, disrupt peace, sow division on communal lines and dislodge the efforts to find a peaceful settlement to the vexed Indo-Naga political issue”.
It stated that no justification can supplement the killing of the innocent for no fault of theirs but for simply belonging to a Naga community. “The pretext ‘informed is just one of the false labels branded on the victim to give reasons for their cold-blooded murders. There subsists murky days ahead unless the psychotic mania of barbarous resort is stopped. Analyzing the causes of this vicious cycle of cold-blooded killings by Khaplang outfit, no valid grounds or rationality can be deduced” the NSCN-IM stated. It further asserted that respecting the voice of the Naga people, the NSCN-IM had extended “to Khaplang’s invitations sent mediators with letters of good-will and various other feelers in all sincerity with the spirit of forgive and forget, reconciliation and unification several times”. However, all these efforts were responded in outright negativity on the pretense of ‘this or that’ in all callousness, the NSCN-IM asserted while maintaining that in addition to the rejection, the NSCN-K “enhanced their association” with the enemy and indulging in anti-Naga campaigns. “Following their stubborn and obstinate response and continuation of engaging in divisive and disruptive activities of senseless killings, threats, permeation of social insecurities, vitiations of peaceful atmosphere and the other sinister anti-Naga stratagems, the NSCN/GPRN was spared with no other options but to confront the challenges posed in defense of our national principles and in safeguarding our de jure rights as a people” it asserted.
Further, the NSCN-IM asserted that the NSCN-K, “stranded in their Khaplang dilemma and situation created by their egoistic and recalcitrant selfishness, bereft of any other political agenda to obstruct the peace process or to disintegrate the Naga family”, is now venting their frustration on the Naga public. It warned that the perpetrators would be penalized for their crimes as was done to war criminals of the World Wars. “The crimes committed in the name of nationalism today will not go unpunished tomorrow but tried accordingly for justice has to and will be delivered to the dead and the living. It is also to be understood that killings of innocent Nagas will betroth to us nothing but deep hatred and shameful ugly image” the NSCN-IM added.
