DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): NNC Member, Thomas has expressed appreciation at the political statement of the Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) which appeared in the local dailies and pointed out that the CPO had taken its political position based on historical facts. “Not like the NGO leaders and some Church leaders who wrote their statements based on false propaganda of Muivah and Isak”, Thomas stated in his press communiqué. The NNC member pointed out that unlike the CPO's stand, their statements ‘pleased the leaders of the so-called NSCN-IM and thereby tremendously patronized fratricidal killings among the Nagas’.
Referring to the statement that “the CPO believes in the principle of the NNC and expects to recognise and consider the NNC as legitimate ground where the Nagas must meet and unite again for the better future”, the NNC stated that such bold statement was never released by other public leaders or organisations for the interest of the Naga national unity.
The NNC statement pointed out that the NSCN (IM) reacted strongly condemning the CPO’s statement “because they cannot allow the public leaders to speak the truth”.
The NNC member also expressed the view that the statement of the CPO is good for young Naga people who were born after the Shillong Accord as “they have stated the exact situation and circumstances which the Nagas had experienced and faced before the accord was signed. Also they stated how the Nagas were compelled to sign the accord for the salvation of Naga national resistance against the aggressor”.
“They know they are telling lies that 'the NNC is dead' from where they are still fighting against the NNC. More than 25 years they are fighting against the NNC because the NNC is functioning in full swing for safeguarding the sovereignty of Nagaland. The implication of history is, the NNC is not dead, therefore the child of India ‘NSCN’ was born in 1980 to fight against the NNC, and it is still existed till date and fighting against the NNC”, it was stated.
The NNC member likewise pointed out that the NSCN (IM) was using the Accord of 1975 as a scapegoat to carry away the blame for division and killings among the Nagas. “But their (NSCN) scapegoat is a dead body.”
Muivah said, “The Shillong Accord is a dead paper” (Quote: Manifesto, page 18). They also claimed that the Government of India declared unconditional talk with the Nagas and recognised the unique history of Nagaland. Which was indeed the GOI admitted after more than 20 years that the Shillong Accord was only an invalid document or a dead paper”.
It was also pointed out that the accord was rejected by the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) in its emergency Tatar Hoho (National Assembly) held on 2nd December, 1975. For which the Kedahge (President) of the FGN released a formal statement and handed over to Governor L.P. Singh who signed the Accord on behalf of the GOI. The statement was accepted by the Governor on 3rd January 1976. Hence the accord was neither approved nor ratified by the both Governments (FGN and GOI). And thereby the accord faced its instant death and consigned to the pages of history before the NSCN was born into the world,” the statement further asserted.
As such the NNC member stated that in the light of “this historical fact, the question of Muivah and Isak reviving or saving Nagaland from the Shillong Accord does not arise. And neither did exist a question of contention or differences among the Naga national leaders on the matter of the accord, except differences had cropped up on socialist political ideology of Th. Muivah and Suisa’s proposal. Therefore no Naga leader should be condemned as traitor regarding on the accord,” the NNC statement viewed.
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