Dimapur, Oct 22 (MExN): NSCN-K Lotha region held a “retrospective and an introspective” meeting on October 17 to “deeply retrospect the workings of the NSCN/GPRN cadres” in the region and has acknowledged excesses that “might” have been committed by its cadres. For this the region “had prayed to God for His forgiveness”.
“The Lotha leaders and officers acknowledged that there might have been many wrong doings and excesses of NSCN indiscipline cadres in Lotha region in the past. And that for those omissions and commissions, the NSCN/GPRN authorities prayed to God for His forgiveness in many church and fasting services” said a statement issued by the region’s caretaker. The house observed with regret that its cadres had “faced a public mob once at Wokha village in the past due to excesses of some cadres in which one cadre was killed by the public.”
The NSCN-K Lotha Region also mentioned several instances of what it said was NSCN-IM cadres facing the Lotha public “four or five times in the past due to their acts of terrorism in Lotha region”. It stated that about 4 cadres of the NSCN-IM were killed in several instances in separate incidents in Wokha town, Bhandari and Longsa village as well as being “beaten black and blue’ by the Lotha public. The Region observed that more than 40 Lothas have been killed and more than 100 humiliated and assaulted some of whom were “invalidated” by one Yisanbemo Kikon of Tsungiki village “either under his own hand or under his command on the pretext of being NSCN members or NSCN sympathizers of members, relatives or alcoholics or drug users or on I-K’s extortion cases”. The meeting observed that under no circumstances Yisanbemo can be absolved from the charges, “including his parents, brothers and sisters and wife and children” it stated.
After discussions the house decided to leave to the wisdom of the Lotha people whether they would follow the NSCN-IM or the NSCN-K. Resolutions taken at the meeting included submitting a report on “tax evaders among contractors and suppliers and government servants” and respond with a befitting reply; take action against individuals or groups obstructing developmental works in the region. While viewing seriously what it stated is the highhandedness of NSCN-IM cadres, the NSCN-K expressed happiness at the “swelling beyond proportion the number of Lotha cadres and officers in the NSCN/GPRN in the recent past through defections from I-K and newcomers”. The meeting also expressed condolence at the death of one Yibenthung Lotha, a cadre from Shaki village and prayed for the bereaved family.
