Claims internal investigation reveals plot to smear NSCN’s image
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 20 (MExN): Two days after clarifying on viral video purportedly showing one private of the ‘Naga Army engaged in selling/supplying arms to a particular party/community,’ the NSCN (IM) today alleged the “existence of a conspiracy group managed by a powerful and sinister security forces to assassinate” its image.
In an update to the incident, the NSCN (IM) informed that upon the release of private H Khosiivei Lovingson Roah from the custody of the Indian security forces, he was “taken over by the Naga Army to unearth the truth of everything and the exact circumstances that led to creating the stinging sensation in the social media platforms.”
“It is however understood that he was released after rewarding him handsomely for doing what he was asked to do in order to fulfil the scheming game plan to corrupt the communal integrity of NSCN amidst the communal violence that is burning Manipur,” the NSCN (IM) maintained in statement from its MIP.
As per Roah’s “confessional statement,” the NSCN (IM) informed that he was caught somewhere at Lamlong, Imphal East, Manipur, on August 15 by the security forces and taken to their camp somewhere beyond Chingmeirong, Imphal.
“After that he was blindfolded and taken to the Army Camp located between Koirengkei and Mantripukhri where he was interrogated,” it claimed.
The NSCN (IM) further alleged that the private was “subjected to 3rd degree torture and under duress he was made to speak out exactly as tutored, before the camera” and threatened with “dire consequences if he refused to cooperate.”
“Thus, everything that flowed from his mouth was done under duress and nothing of his own version,” it asserted.
Accordingly, the NSCN (IM) stated that the “manner of how it happened leave us nothing to doubt about the existence of a conspiracy group managed by a powerful and sinister security forces to assassinate the image of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) before the world by plotting such an extremely dramatic situation in the midst of the Meitei-Kuki-Zo ethnic pogrom.”
This is the awful truth of the Indian Security Forces targeting the NSCN and dragging them into the “communal pool of violence,” it added.
On August 18, the NSCN (IM) clarified that the person seen in the viral video went missing since he was granted medical leave on August 7, 2023 for ear infection and was sent to Dimapur but went missing since then and “surfaced through this viral video floating on social media.”
