Dimapur, January 24 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today termed the recentmove of the Government of India (GoI) to abolish the time honoured Free Movement Regime (FMR) as a “rude shock to the NSCN in particular and to the whole Nagas in general” and said it would not allow the proposed boundary fencing.
“...We totally against boundary fencing in our lands that violates our rights as one family. Simply put, NSCN will not allow the proposed boundary fencing that further divides the Naga family as a nation,” stated the NSCN (IM) in press release via its MIP.
According to the NSCN (IM), the recent proposal conjure up the “treacherous division of the Nagas by the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and the Burmese Prime Minister U Nu in 1953.”
However, the fact remains that the Nagas have never accepted the arbitrary international boundary demarcation set up by these two primeministers and the Nagas living on either sides of the so-called international border have remain as one family defying all the odds, it asserted.
“As one family Nagas needs free movement from both sides,” the NSCN (IM) added.
It further pointed out that Nagas are indigenous people with high level of political consciousness, cultural and social cohesion.
“They are also fully aware of the irrefutable historical narratives of the Naga nation that transcend the international barriers, oppressively created by the Indian and Myanmar governments without consulting the Nagas,” it contended.
Such manner of injustice and wrong conduct against the Nagas, the NSCN (IM) maintained, continue to haunt the Nagas till today. It also reminded that Naga political movement came into existence with the avowed stand to defend the historical and political rights of the Naga nation and put to an end the hegemony of the GoI and Myanmar in the manner that is acceptable and honourable.
Accordingly, it called the recent move “rude shock.”
“Ironically, the nature of the boundary demarcation was so cruel that it runs right through the house of Longwa King in Mon district. Nothing can be crueller than this while dividing the Naga family,” it added.
Meanwhile, on the issue of illegal immigrants, the NSCN (IM) asserted that the Naga themselves would control any illegal immigrant in Naga soil.
“We will not allow any illegal immigrants in our territory,” it declared, while stating that it would not allow proposed boundary fencing along the Indo-Myanmar international border.
