DIMAPUR, OCT 5 (MExN): The Netherlands-based Naga International Support Center today called on all authorities and especially the Government of India to denounce the “atrocious act” of the killing of a Tangkhul Naga student in Kohima on October 2 and “to bring the culprits to justice at the earliest.” “This criminal act comes just after the self styled Khaplang group, K-group, a split off of the Naga Army which fights for the freedom of all Nagas, served a quit notice on the Tangkhul Naga tribe. This is the first act of the K-group which led to the murder of an innocent Naga civilian,” the NISC alleged.
The human rights organization “considers this killing an outrageous act and those who ordered this senseless and cowardly killing a blatant criminal act and those who committed the murder should be caught and prosecuted immediately” The murder was “plotted and motivated by those who want to destabilize the Naga society,” a release said.
According to NISC, two major currents or plots have led to the assassination. The first contention made is that after the NSCN (K) split from the ‘Naga Forces’ it has been “known to be financed and armed by both the then Nagaland Government headed by the then Chief Minister S.C. Jamir, now governor of Goa, directly and indirectly by the Assam Rifles with which they shared funds and weapons and the Indian Armed Forces.”
“By remote control and through intermediates the K-group is deployed by the Government of India. Since the Naga National Council has teamed up with the K, also financed by the Government of India regarding its peace camps established in 1975 with the Shillong Accord, both Naga Organizations seek to undermine the peace talks between the active Naga people, their Army and the Government of India.”
NISC claimed that the NSCN (K) and NNC/FGN use Indian made AK 47 “and there is overwhelming eyewitness evidence.”
The support centre claimed that since state election is fast approaching Jamir is deploying maximum efforts to destabilize the whole situation including the peace process. “Reliable sources known to us tell that the Government of India through Jamir, when he also received Khaplang’s men, told them to chase all Tangkhuls out of the so-called Nagaland State.”
Secondly, the NISC making reference to an NDTV India article, which said the Indian Government has begun to support Burma/Myanmar, said India this week supplied 98 truckloads of arms and ammunition to Myanmar last month and to confirm the joint operations the Indian Defense secretary visited Yangon last week. “The Myanmar army has started a crackdown on camps run by NSCN (K) and ULFA in the country’s north.”
The Naga International Support Center has observed two currents in Indian politics- ‘Doves and Hawks’- as confrontational.
The Doves of the Indian policymakers want peace and through negotiated settlement which would be honorable and acceptable to both. Now that talks have entered a conclusive stage, the reactions have become very strong as well, NISC said. “The Doves also want to achieve peace by minimizing the discrepancies which are being created by the hard liners using Khaplang and NNC.”
“The Hawks want to eradicate all resistance and follow the Nehru principle of not allowing the Nagas to control an inch of their Homeland, considered to be India. So, the Hawks are plotting and planning and now are dividing the Nagas again by arming and propagating inhuman acts like ordering to quit on an entire tribe and ultimately, so true to their word, to begin killing their self created adversaries, to create the atmosphere for submission to the K group but ultimately to India.”
The NISC has called on the international community to strongly condemn the killing orchestrated by those who have, but to divide and rule, the Nagas as their prime objective “if the Indian Government cannot provide protection and justice to the Naga citizens.”
“The NISC call on the Government of India to show it is sincere in talking peace and so to publicly condemn this murder and to catch and bring those who plotted it and execute it to justice.”
The NISC has also called on the Naga Forces, the Naga People and the Naga civil society organizations to “voice grief over the senseless murder, to demand justice from the authorities and to show restraint in retaliating against this violent act of inhumanity, because to pay back violence for violence will not only bring the slain and innocent young Naga victim back to life, but will only breed more and more violence.”
