DIMAPUR, SEPT 21 (MExN): With regard to the quit notice issued to the Tangkhul community, the NSCN (K) in a press statement issued by Nitovi Aye, Cabinet Secretary GPRN stated that the quit notice is served to the Tangkhuls as they have become more cruel and overbearing towards the Nagas. “This time the quit notices have been issued by all Naga tribes or regions and the issue is serious and should be compiled with. We accept the challenge of I-K in this matter that they would give us befitting reply. The NSCN/GPRN never asks or pressurizes the Tangkhuls to go away from their land in Ukhrul. But Tangkhuls have their ancestral land and properties in Ukhrul District of Manipur state. They have their home and hearth in Ukhrul. So much so, that they (Tangkhuls) leave Nagaland bag and baggage, safe and sound and live in Ukhrul peacefully,” a release stated.
It mentioned the following reasons why the quit notices were served. It stated that the Tangkhuls did not participate when the Naga elders submitted the historic memorandum to British Simon Commission in 1927, formation of NNC in 1946, declaration of Naga Independence by the then NNC in August, 1947 and the historic Naga plebiscite on May, 1951.It also stated that the Tangkhuls did not join the Nagas in boycotting general election in 1952, Naga armed resistance in 1955-56 against the Indian forces occupation in Nagaland and formation of the Federal Government of Nagaland in March, 1956 adding that the Tangkhuls refused to join Nagaland when it was created as a separate state (though it was against the interest of the Naga Freedom movement).Tangkhuls joined the Naga freedom struggle only after the signing of the first cease-fire between India and Nagaland in 1964. “Ramyo Zimik was no doubt a capable person and the Naga reposed their faith in him and gave even the post of Kilo Kilonser (Home Minister) at one time. But he was mainly responsible for the deadlocked of Indo-Naga political dialogue in 1964. And he was one of the main architects of the signing of Shillong Accord,” the statement added. From the time of his joining the Naga National Movement Th. Muivah was at the helms of affairs by becoming the General Secretary of NNC and subsequently NSCN. With such powers vested in him, Th. Muivah had become obsessed with re-writing the history of Naga movement starting from Tangkhuls participations. “It was no other Chief Minister or authority of Manipur, but former Manipur Chief Minister Reishang Keishang Tangkhul promised and declared that not an inch of Manipur should be ceded to Nagaland,” the NSCN (K) stated in the release. Right from the beginning Th. Muivah had been campaigning that could there be any political dialogue between India and Nagaland, it should be under his leadership and none else. This shows his policy of alienation and selfishness. Th. Muivah, V.S. Atem and Rh. Raising (All Tangkhuls) are the main culprits who are deadly against Naga unity and reconciliation, it stated.
“In 1998, a mob like situation was created as is natural in all revolutions like ours and many lives belonging to different tribes were lost. But Th. Muivah and his henchmen are singing and orchestrating the incident to make cheap political mileage out of the unfortunate incident. Let us not talk who were right and who were wrong at this stage. But with this excuse Th. Muivah started hate and vengeance campaign and continues to kill hundreds of innocent Nagas,” it stated. It further asserted that the genocides and fratricides under Th. Muivah and his men who resort to the extend of awarding hard cash to the killers of the Naga leaders, is neither compromisable nor excusable. “With this points in view, the NSCN/GPRN is most reluctantly compelled to issue quit notice to Tangkhuls so that peace prevails in Nagaland,” they stated.
Furthermore, the NSCN (K) stated that the NSCN-IM’s activities have escalated in Kohima and Dimapur after the visit of ‘ill-will mission of Grace Lyu Collins and her team’ when they had had secret parleys with NSCN-IM leaders leaders at Hebron camp. These have been re-charged by the acts of “Neo International Satanic Centre (NISC) and Neo Surrenders Groupings (NSG)” it stated adding that the recent killing and bomb blasts in Kohima and Dimapur should be condemned by one and all.
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