Dimapur, Feb 8 (MExN): Reacting to an earlier NSCN-K statement on the students’ issue, the NSCN-IM in a press release said it wants that “our egoistic cocoons” and “waging bad blood amongst ourselves” are done away with and rather, concerted effort be given to heal wounds.
“Let us be more sensible and come out of our egoistic cocoons and admit to facts and accept one another than waging bad blood amongst ourselves” an MIP statement from the NSCN-IM stated. “We should all try and contribute to give peace a chance so that our wounds are healed” it stated reminding that Nagas are one and “if one finger is hurt, the whole body suffers the pain”. On this account, the NSCN-IM called for healing with love and reconciliation.
It asserted that the NSCN-IM is struggling for the emancipation of more than 47 Naga tribes spread ‘in-between’ the borders of Myanmar and India. “We are against alien subjugation, aggression, occupation and arbitrarily imposed vivisection of the Naga country. We are fighting against the occupying nations and telling them to leave us alone as we were independent since time immemorial” it stated. “Through the course of the Naga people’s struggle, almost every Naga family has suffered in some way or the other. We have contributed and sacrificed much in some way or the other for our national cause which has been going on for more than half a century now” the NSCN-IM reminded.
It, however, also had a word for the NSCN-K: “The Khaplang camp proclaims that they are fighting for the sovereign Naga nation on one hand. They indulge in all kinds of anti-social and anti-peace activities under the guise of nationalism on the other”. The NSCN-IM queried how far the NSCN-K’s work corresponds to the Naga struggle.
“Do they not profess divisionism and communalism?” it stated while making mention of recent incidences like the abduction of an Indian Army personnel, shooting of a bakery employee in Dimapur and arrest of an NSCN-K cadre by the Dimapur police for extorting. The NSCN-IM maintained that Chairman Isak Chishi Swu’s ‘peace proclamation’ is being exploited. “When peace is declared, instead of extending goodwill gestures to strengthen peace and reconciliation, the Khaplangs have been trying to exploit the situation with all provocative offensives. They are trying to vitiate the peace and beguile the populace with their claws of terror. Are such responses in tandem with the desire of the Naga people”, it queried.
