Dimapur, August 19 (MExN): The NSCN-IM has reacted to the ‘Quit notice’ issued by the NSCN-K to the Tangkhul community. Various Regions of the NSCN-IM, asserting equality among all Naga brethren, condemned the notice issued.
The Lotha Region in a release termed the notice as a heinous crime against the Nagas and asked the NSCN-K to come out clear “if they have a clear conscience and work for the Nagas as they claim.”
“It should be remembered that Nagas are from three linguistic groups. Like the Tenyime, in which the Angamis, Chakhesang, Mao, Zeliangrong etc., belong the Aos, Lothas, Tangkhuls, Sangtam, Yimchungru etc and some tribes in Myanmar and Manipur belong to the same linguistic family. Likewise the Konyaks, Phom, Khiamniungan etc., and some tribe in Myanmar belong to another linguistic tribe. On what authority and what moral right does a particular Naga tribe can be expelled from a particular area” Renthungo Ovung, CAO, stated. The Region cautioned educated Nagas not to be misled by “some ignorant group with a self-centered interest”.
Also, the Sumi Region asserted that the people would never yield to “outside devices and dictations to draw a bead on us”, stating that mandate has been given to the Collective leadership of the NSCN-IM at the 4th Naga Consultative meeting at Hebron by the Sumis. “Quit Notice being served on any Naga tribe by some section of people just to please their pay masters is foolishness. The unfortunate development has prompted Sumi national workers to ask the Kaphlang group to spell out their actual motive” stated Kihoto Yeptho, CAO UT-I and Vihoto Chishi, CAO Sumi region in a joint release. It condemned the quit notice and urged all Nagas to reject it.
The Angami Region through its CAO T Keditsu, stated that the NSCN-K “are always to bring division enmity and ism”. “Thereby, we are aware of their policies and agendas which might be framed to quit other Naga tribes as well as from a region in future as their policy is to construct a partition wall of the Nagas for confusion and misunderstanding” it stated while condemning the quite notice as well as other “heinous crimes”.
Further, the SPMTH, ZLR Region in a joint release while condemning the quit notice urged the Nagas not to forget that “we Nagas have a common adversary to the GOI and that Nagas are Nagas and non-Nagas are that”. The region asked the NSCN-K to offer public apology “before the rest of the world” for causing “severe moral damage” to the Nagas as a whole.
“The Chakhesang Region condemns in the strongest terms the quit notice served to a particular tribe and term this divisive forces who are hell bent upon destroying Naga integrity and solidarity, the very prerequisite of nation-building, as most unfortunate” stated a release from Venehu, CAO Chakhesang region of the NSCN-IM. It held view that “unlike this narrow-minded elements claim for fighting for the Naga people minus certain tribes acknowledge the immense contribution of Tangkhul brothers and sisters in our struggle for freedom”. It declared that no forces on earth can undo what God had already planned, that ‘any tribe today is destined to be a Naga tomorrow.’
The Sangtam Region of the NSCN (IM) also strongly condemned the notice singling out a particular tribe of the Nagas, “when we are on the same platform fighting for the same cause”. “GPRN, NSCN (IM) is a peoples’ government and USR works in the best interest of the people. Thus any vested individual or group representing USR without people’s mandate amounts to total betrayal to its own people”, stated Lisechem, Tatar/Caretaker, CAO, United Sangtam Region, in a press note. The NSCN (IM) Konyak Region also stated that “all the Nagas are sons and daughters of the same parents”. “Traditionally, culturally, religiously and by blood we are same, only recently enemies divided us into many parts. From the inception of our national movement, every Nagas had equally fought against the invaders, of course some earlier and the other later. Th. Muivah was told to lead 300 Naga armies to China in 1966 by the Naga Tatar Hoho. He did not go by himself or sent by the Tangkhul tribe. He did his mission successfully and the Nagas in those days were proud of going to China. It is unthinkable to drive some tribe or tribes out of Nagaland”, stated Retd Captain Chingkap, CAO Konyak Region in a press note.
Pointing out that the enemies unable to defeat the Nagas militarily and politically have started using selfish interest elements to spoil the Naga family as in the past, the Konyak region CAO stated: “Mr. Angpa never represents the whole Konyak, so to drive some Naga brothers out of Konyak Region is not the decision of the whole Konyak but his own personal whims”.
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