DIMAPUR, JANUARY 23 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today said that it would boycott India’s Republic day celebration on January 26 all over Naga inhabited areas “as part of the people’s struggle against India’s illegal and forceful colonization of Naga country for three quarter of a century.”
A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (K) stated that the “brutal crackdown on the voice of the Naga people for the last seven decades with sheer military might and violent repressions at the cost of more than half a million precious lives of the Nagas merely cannot be silenced or sentenced to oblivion.”
“Our silence and passivity only emboldens India to relegate the legitimate people’s liberation struggle to a mere secessionist movement before the international community,” it added.
It therefore urged that “every patriotic Naga must have the courage to assert for the just rights and identity that has been inhumanly suppressed for too long.”
“Let the whole world know of the suffering of the Nagas in the hands of one of the world’s largest democracy and expose the sham and hypocrisy of India’s democracy tainted and concealed with one of the most excessive human rights violation since her Independence from Britain till today. Deploying lakhs of her troops in Naga country and armed with the most potent and draconian Armed Force’s Special Power Act (providing immunity to Indian soldiers from legal prosecution) solely to violently crush the aspiration of the Naga people is the biggest blot on India’s democracy and the world must be made known of her crimes against humanity being perpetrated in silence and isolation,” the NSCN (K) said.
It further cautioned “curious Naga onlookers, civilians, students etc” to “refrain from participating in the upcoming event so as to avoid collateral damage.”
