DIMAPUR, JULY 9 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN today stated that the summons issued by the Nagaland Police, SIT Branch, to a top GPRN/NSCN functionary to appear at the former’s office in Chümoukedima is “unacceptable” and appears to be “ill motivated and uninformed.”
A press release from the MIP of the GPRN/NSCN stated that the Nagaland police “must understand that Indo-Naga political conflict is a legacy of blood and tears on the Naga side.”
“To equate genuine Naga revolutionary leaders and workers with government looters, swindlers, petty thieves, criminal gangs, street thugs, market goons and self aggrandizing godfathers to illegal immigrants would not only be socially and politically disastrous but it would equally hasten the death of Naga conscience,” it said.
It questioned as to what crime the GPRN/NSCN leader in question committed, and accused the SIT of “barking at a wrong tree.”
It reminded that the Cease Fire mechanism is in place and all conflicting ground rules issues are tackled at a CFMG meeting headed by the Chairman. “Summoning Naga revolutionary leaders to a police table is unprecedented and is never agreeable,” it added.
The GPRN/NSCN further reminded that the WC, NNPGs and the GoI have signed an agreed position on November 17, 2017 setting clear parameters for two entities for negotiations. After hectic parleys, both sides have chalked out a path for a future that is enduring and peaceful co-existence, it stated.
“All the Naga tribes and neighboring communities have been briefed on the political roadmap and the same has been acknowledged by Naga neighbors. Nagaland police must accept the reality of the situation,” the GPRN/NSCN said.
It further said that the WC NNPGs has presented the Naga tribal Hohos with the status paper, “absorbing opinions at all levels.” It stressed that “Naga people's understanding of our political and historical right and our distinct identity is most necessary. This strength must be harnessed and wedged to contemporary political realities.”
The Government of India, too, has understood the core inalienable sovereign rights of the Nagas and so the details of a relationship between the entities will be pragmatic, workable and enduring, the GPRN/NSCN stated. It asked the Nagaland police to “educate its lower rung officers and men on the current political status.”
It meanwhile claimed that “sustenance of a political movement for over seventy years is never done through extortion.”
“It is a people's ready contribution, desirous of an assured honorable political future that GPRN/NSCN, as equal member of WC, NNPGs, is negotiating with GoI,” the GPRN/NSCN said.
Further it stated that whoever ordered the “physical presence of the Naga revolutionary leader on July 7 2020,” has “failed to grasp the reality that Indo-Naga political conflict has spilled so much blood on both sides and caused much sufferings and destruction over seventy years.”
“Armed confrontation has been avoided as agreed upon bilaterally in order to seek a peaceful honorable and acceptable solution,” it stressed.
The GPRN/NSCN questioned whether this was a “deliberate ploy of Nagaland Police SIT to demean, devalue and muddy the water when both WC, NNPGs and GoI are on the verge of announcing honorable and acceptable political solution.”
It asked the State police force to desist from taking accusatory and confrontational posture at all times.
The GPRN/NSCN also accused the police force of indulging in “gangster behavior” and alleged that the June 23 Kohima incident was a “clear case of murder by police in front of bystanders and yet the killer is being shielded.”
“It is time to answer the people. Justice must be delivered to the family of the victim,” the GPRN/NSCN stated.
It further stated that this is a period to exhibit utmost restraint, engage in constructive dialogue between police force, administration and Naga revolutionary members through ceasefire mechanism.
