Dimapur, August 24 (MExN): Highlighting what it stated is the untold sufferings on “various counts,” NSCN-K appeals to the government of India and her leaders not to “persecute and punish the Nagas any more.”
“During the three quarters of a century of freedom movement, Nagas had undergone the untold sufferings and the hardships on various counts which many human races could not endure in order to retain God-given freedom” explained NSCN-K Kilonser AZ Jami. He mentioned that Nagas were summarily executed even on petty offenses and that even during the British Raj the people were deported to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The government of India continues to do so, waging a major but undeclared war against the Nagas, the Kilonser opined.
Jami also mentioned of the talks between the GoI and the NSCN-IM. “Now, during the more than 10 years of ceasefire between GoI and the I-K group nearly 70 rounds of talks had been abroad as well as in India without any result because of this all the I-K cadres and the I-K supporters among the Nagas are being kept in dark and in torturous suspense” Jami asserted. Three other Naga underground groups are also keeping in the same situation, he added. He explained that in this way, the Indian leaders are “planning to wear the Nagas out and to make the Naga movement meet a natural death.” However, this policy would be futile on the part of India, Jami asserted.
Further “the I-K leadership at one place and at one time declared that they had already dropped the sovereignty issue ad at another place and at other times said that they are claiming the sovereign rights of the Nagas.” Such “clumsy pronouncements” of the NSCN-IM’s leadership has completely confused the Nagas masses, the NSCN-K explained. But the GoI fully understands the NSCN-IM’s demands “so the GoI should immediately make solution to the problems of I-K group and wind up their talks” the Kilonser advised.
“Enough is enough therefore don’t torture the Nagas physically as well as mentally with your false diplomacies and hypocrisies; the demands of the I-K leadership are very simple and acceptable to India; settle the problems of the I-K group and give a chance to Naga freedom fighters to enter into a political dialogue” Jami stated, claiming the NSCN-K and the NNC/FGN are the “torchbearers of Nagas’ aspirations.”
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