Morung Express News
Kohima | June 21
NSCN-IM rapped mainland Indian media for what they said as “playing destructive role” by misinforming the world community on the ongoing political talks with the government of India. The Organization, MIP Dy. Kilonser Kraibo Chawang said that the Indian media is playing a destructive role, by using certain words such ‘autonomy’, ‘special development or package’, ‘Naga inhabited areas’ etc which has never been used either by them or the government of India during the talks.
He said that the terminology such as ‘autonomy’, which was widely carried in several newspapers, is only the creation of the Indian media. “When we have never used these words in the talks, what type of autonomy are they talking about”, Chawang questioned.
What the two sides have been trying to work out since the talks started is the ‘special federal relationship’ on issues such as defence, external affairs, flag, currency etc, therefore, the question of ‘autonomy’ as appeared in Indian Media does not arise, Kraibo said.
Chawang also said that at no point of time they discussed anything ‘special development’ or ‘package deal’, as flashed by the media, with the government of India.
“We are only talking about the political solution. We never discussed about package deal”, Chawang said, alleging that the Indian media is trying to twist the whole truth of the ongoing talks and misinform the world community by using such strange terminologies.
“This shows that Indian media have not taken the seriousness of the Indo-Naga peace process with respect”, he stated.
Kraibo also clarified that they never used the term like the ‘Naga inhabited areas’, but only the term ‘Naga areas’.
Use of the term ‘Naga inhabited areas’ would mean exclusion of many Naga areas, which are inhabited by other tribes at present, therefore, they only used the words Naga areas, he clarified.
NSCN-IM also said that there is no greater or smaller Nagalim, but the Nagas are talking about what have been theirs since time immemorial.
Meanwhile, Chawang also said that the talk which is to be held from June 22 to the 24th in Hague will be a very crucial one as they are going to touch upon all the substantive issues.
Issue regarding ‘special federal relationship’ with the government of India on defence, currency, external affairs, flag etc would dominate the scheduled talk, he added.
The talk would be led by its President Isak Chishi Swu.
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