Dimapur, June 13 (MExN): The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) today expressed deep concern over the abduction case of Mr. T. Sashi, Child Development Project Officer, who is said to have gone missing along with his driver while traveling to Hojai, Assam on the 4th of June, 2010. A press note issued by the NPMHR Secretariat extended solidarity with CANSSEA and the demand of the Government of Nagaland to speedily pursue the tracking down of the said miscreants involved and to facilitate the safe release of the missing officer and his driver.
The NPMHR appealed to the Chief Minister of Assam and the civil society organisations in the neighbouring state to kindly intervene to seek the safe release of T.Sashi, CDPO on humanitarian ground as the CDPO is a patient of hypertension and diabetics. The NPMHR also pointed out that the current culture of abduction and extortion prevalent in the region should be “cooperatively stamped out with wider debate, discussion and campaign through more mass awareness”.
“Naga society today should collectively stand up together to shoulder the responsibility of removal of this evil culture based on selfishness and avarice which has eaten into our society’s foundation. Unless the current culture of apathy towards the evils of violence, abduction and extortion is addressed, the question of sustainable peace, safety and exploitation by brute force against a rational culture of human rights and accountability with dignity cannot fully germinate and sustain”, the NPMHR stated.
It also appealed to all section of the society to unitedly resist the evils of abduction and extortion culture and spread public awareness to jointly participate in this campaign to end abduction and extortion which remains an abhorrence, negating the growth of a progressive, accountable and violence free society.
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