DIMAPUR, FEB 27 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) explaining the root causes of division among the Nagas pointed out that their peaceful existence was shattered the day “Indian occupation forces invaded on their land” and termed this as the “genesis of fighting and killing in Nagalim”. The Peace and Reconciliation Committee of the NSCN (IM) in a press communiqué while mentioning among others, the 16 point agreement, Shillong Accord, Military coupe d’ etat staged in 1978 and the other abortive coupe by SS Khaplang however stated that “when one dig deep into the heart of the matter”, it was Delhi and Rangoon who are the authors of all these bloodshed in “Nagalim”.
“They are the culprits. Our political battle or military battle is in Delhi and Rangoon. Our fighting strategy should therefore, be directed against those aggressors, not among ourselves. The Nagas realized the curse and shame of chopping the heads of their own brothers for status, money and tinsel medals from their enemies”, the statement pointed out.
While stating that the message of peace should be preached to the aggressors and ‘their allies’, the NSCN (IM) Peace Committee also maintained that it was the ‘collaborators of the enemies’ who betrayed the cause for ‘status and money’. “It is they who magnified fighting in Nagalim. It is they who made the stay of the occupation forces prolong this far. And that Nagas they are the innocent victims of those demons”, the Peace Committee maintained.
Making it clear that the Nagas are the aggrieved party, not the aggressor, the NSCN (IM) stated that it was imperative to know the causes of war and the roots of peace if Nagas are to eliminate war and restore peace in the land. Besides the occupational forces, which it stated was the genesis of fighting and killing, the NSCN (IM) Peace and Reconciliation Committee stated that the 16 point agreement was an attempt to legitimize the occupation of Nagalim by India. “It is never a boon as claimed by a few demagogues. It is only political bait to trap and murder the right of the Nagas”, it stated and further termed the Shillong Accord as another diabolic attempt on the life of the Naga nation, which had claimed thousands of lives.
On the military coupe d’ etat staged in 1978, it termed the move as a conspiracy hatched by the Indian intelligent agency, which had taken a heavy toll and went to state that the wounds of the Naga people were further widened by another coupe attempt of SS Khaplang, who butchered hundreds of fellow workers on ‘fabricated grounds’.
