Dimapur, Oct 16 (MExN): The NSCN-K has reacted strongly to the killing of one Ahoto Assumi stating that his life was taken by the NSCN-IM just because he happened to be a cousin of NSCN-K Army spokesman Isak Sumi. It stated that the factional feud should not involve targeting family circles of workers from either group.
“Late Ahoto Assumi a father of seven children, husband to wife and sole bread earner of humble family, was as usual in his daily chores to sustain his family. He was innocent of any crime or involvement of any kind in ongoing dirty factional feuds except that he happens to be a family relative of Isak Sumi, Army Spokesman” stated a note of condemnation issued by Akato Chophi, Supervisor UT-I and Isak Sumi, Army Spokesman.
“Factional conflicts going out of proportion and going to the extent of targeting innocent family circles of workers from either group, repercussion would be inevitable civil war in no distant future. However desperate one’s position could be, we are waging war not of personal vendettas or personal ambition” the release stated adding that hundreds of innocent Nagas have been slaughtered, countless untraced and hundreds of families still mourning and searching the mortal remains of their dear ones.
“The Most recent murder of Late Ahoto Assumi by IK cadres at the false instigation by one of it’s security Officer, Umesh, who is a Bihari and serving in IK Town command Kohima and a brother of proprietor UP Pan Shop Jail colony Kohima, and subsequent failure on the part of NSF, Naga Hoho, NMA, NPMHR and tribal organizations...
...despite repeated appeals by family members to look into circumstances under which the deceased was murdered shows how unjust and lop-sided Naga leaders have become” the NSCN-K rued.
It stated that a mass funeral was organized in Kohima when Late Hovizol and late ‘Shimrieh’ were killed. “Whereas when IK cadres murdered innocent father Ahoto kidnapped from the same spot where late Hovizol was killed, both the crime committed on false information provided by Umesh Bihari to IK cadres, several organizations including NSF, SKK, Sumi Hoho etc despite having acquired first hand information of the nature of case expressed inconveniences and other irrelevant excuses in order to remain in the good books of the perpetrators. Henceforth assertion of representing Nagas on equal and just basis is a complete false hood and a design to serve only ones interest or the interest of only such groups or organizations that embeds them” the NSCN-K stated.
