DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 8 (MExN): The Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) today stated that the Nagaland State Chief minister must take moral responsibility for the violent incidents in the state and “step down as happens in any democratic nations and societies across the world, whether one is at fault or not.”
A press note from the NPMHR said that the relentless position taken by the Chief Minister refusing to own moral responsibility and to step-down over the violence in the state, “all in the midst of uproars against the holding of ULB Elections causing an unprecedented mayhem in the Naga society has become one of the most unfortunate turn of events in the present day situation.”
“While issues of disagreements over the ‘imposition of undesirable alien legal systems and socio-cultural concepts and ways of life’ continue to create chaos and confusions all these while ever since Nagas declared their Independence one day before India, on the 14th of August 1947, all successive state governments from the beginning till today, choose to defy and suppress its own people’s wishes and aspirations in the name of ‘upholding the Constitution of India,’ even when there is no need at all,” the NPMHR stated.
It stated that the sufferings already caused to every household and families across Nagaland, the entire tensed atmosphere has become grimmer with the growing stand-off between the Naga Public and the State Government under the present leadership.
“If situation does not normalize in the coming few days and weeks, there is an entire generation of Naga children whose career and future would be affected. And no amount of apologies or justification can undo these damages, for which the present day leadership of all shapes and sizes will be responsible,” it cautioned.
The NPMHR meanwhile extended condolences to the families of those who were killed as a result of the recent violence in the state and expressed resentment over the “high-handedness of the state’s brutality.”
