Dimapur, December 16 (MExN): “In the matter of Naga unity NSCN is always forthcoming. We represent the Naga issue, and therefore NSCN has always stands for the unity of the Naga people. There is no deviation till now”, affirmed the NSCN (IM) in a note issued by its MIP. It however pointed out that the crux of the matter was unity based on principle which “the NSCN repeatedly stressed and which other group find too harsh to adhere”. Sating that unity should be for the Nagas and not under the Indian constitution, the MIP note pointed out that this “political point has to be taken into account when we talk of unity”.
With reference to the Sumi Hoho president Hokishe Yepthomi’s comment that “unity is more important than status of solution”, the MIP pointed out that this was “sheer idiocy that reflects his political indiscretion”. “This is therefore misleading in the true sense of the term”, it stated. Making the point that “for over 60 years Nagas struggle was focused on solution, but at the same time NSCN has always encouraged the civil societies to work for Naga unity, while giving priority for political solution”, the NSCN (IM) stated that “political solution will automatically bring unity among the Nagas”.
Reiterating that the “spirit of NSCN on unity and reconciliation finds reflection in the Yaruiwo’s proclamation on 13th January 2007, Hebron wherein it was mentioned ‘let reconciliation, forgiveness and compassion ring all over Nagalim’, the MIP statement expressed that “Azheto Chophy and his company at the instance of Sumi Hoho ran away from the national call of duty for unity”. “They ran away from the national issue and revolution”.
Pointing out that if “Hokishe Yepthomi is so restless for Naga unity, then he must preach the theory and practice of unity to the unification group that Azheto claimed to represent, but never to the NSCN”. The MIP reminded Hokishe “that Naga unity can never materialize when handled in the manner of Azheto and Sumi Hoho who are working hand in glove with the Indian intelligence agents and armed forces”. “The Sumi Hoho after prodding Azheto to run away from Hebron can never retrieve its credibility although its fallen image is not NSCN’s pleasure”, the MIP note stated.
The NSCN (IM) further alleged that the term ‘Unity first and solution next’ was the creation of the forces or agents to put obstacles to Indo-Naga political solution. “NSCN is never for piecemeal solution. Sumi Hoho is nothing more than a mere social organization. What is best for the Nagas is the main factor that is occupying the thinking of the Naga negotiators with the GOI during the past eleven years”, the MIP clarified while adding that Hokishe Yepthomi was “simply going overboard and not tempering his inflated authority over the Naga unity issue”.
“With his typical bent of mind Hokishe’s political philosophy for the Nagas is ‘choose between bloodshed and peace’. There is no doubt that Hokishe is responsible for the bloodshed that has taken place in the name of Naga unification when the unification group started killing indiscriminately. He will be held responsible if more killing take place”, it stated while adding that the “NSCN have never gone for the killing, but only when provoked beyond control, to save the innocent Naga people from falling easy prey to the marauding elements”. “After all, who divide the Nagas? And who is against unity? Hokishe should not poke his nose unnecessarily. It is better to be sincere than being hypocritical. Deception and deceit should not be made to go too far to fool the Nagas.
The downfall is sure to happen. A social leader who only represents motley of Sumi’s should learn to mind his business”, the MIP note stated.
Pointing out that the recourse “to ban any tribal organization is a hard decision for the NSCN, but when NSCN ban Sumi Hoho the destructive nature of its activities became the indefensible reason”. It stated that in the place Sumi Hoho never stopped “abusing the name of Yaruiwo of GPRN and misleading the general Naga public and Sumi public by misinterpreting the Yaruiwo’s proclamation on unity through reconciliation and forgiveness”.
It went on to allege that the “Sumi Hoho also indulged in the sinister game plan to dislodge the GPRN led by Collective Leadership after the 23rd Nov. 2007, when Azheto ran away from Hebron to eventually form his self-style government ‘Government of the People’s Republic of Nagaland” and that “it actively involved themselves as the facilitators for the formation of the parallel government using the stolen name of NSCN”.
Narrating a related incident, the MIP statement went on to state that the “Sumi Hoho and Western Sumi Hoho leaders on 23rd Jan 2008 in their meeting with Yaruiwo at Bangkok admitted that they had prevented Azheto and his group from making their unification move ‘official’, though NSCN’s Joint Council took the decision to make it official”. “They have even given assurance to act as mediator. The SH/WSH leaders reiterated the same on 29 January 2008 in a joint meeting with Ato Kilonser Th. Muivah at Hebron. But they never translated their commitment into action, and their one sided inclination towards the traitors in the sweet name of unification discredited their image and betrayed the NSCN authority in particular”, it stated.
Pointing out that in a “show of their overbearing attitude the SH/WSH leaders on 23 January 2008 turned down the official request of NSCN Chairman Isak Chishi Swu to revoke/review the Sumi Hoho Resolution of 27 Nov. 2007 at Kuhuboto”, the MIP stated that “their sinister design was thus exposed more openly to the Naga people”. More than that, it alleged that the “Sumi Hoho played important role in mobilizing and instigating public to destroy properties belonging to NSCN members thereby inducing anti-Naga mindset to the people”.
“Unheard of in the history of the Naga people’s long struggle for freedom crossing 60 years no civil society had gone to the extend to denigrate the NSCN in the manner SH/WSH had done”, the MIP press note stated while adding that in the “name of unification, morality was discarded in the dustbin when SH/WSH intentionally supported the unification initiated by deserters who fled from Hebron at night on 22 Nov. 2007 with arms and other government properties”.
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