New Delhi, November 2 (ANI): At a time when the General Secretary of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isac-Muivah) faction has expressed its desperation over the progress in the talks with the Indian Government, the rival Khaplang faction has refused to restrain itself and added salt to the former’s wounds.
The NSCN (K) has termed the decade-long talks between the NSCN (IM) and the Centre as the betrayal of the Naga cause. “The ongoing talks between IM and the Indian Government have made the IM group a stooge in the hands of the Indian Government. In some years, these people will start singing Vande Matram,” said Kughalu Mulatonu, an NSCN-K leader who supervises the group’s ceasefire supervisory board.
He described Thuingaleng Muivah and Isac Chisi Swu as “jail birds” who were not the real representatives of the Naga people. “They don’t reach out to the people. They just try to invite the attention of the people....There is no Naga talks. Only IM and Government talk, when you talk about the Naga talks, the talks have to be based on the consensus between the Nagas. Isac and Muivah stay in Hebron Camp. They are making a laughing stalk of themselves,” observed Mulatonu.
Mulatonu challenged the IM leadership to attend a joint press conference if they were really serious about Naga issues. However, he refused to join hands with the NSCN (IM) saying that NSCN (K) can never be with a “terrorist group”. “We have never been together. We will never be together...Nagas will never mix nationalism with terrorism,” said the NSCN (K) leader.
Commenting on NSCN (IM) charges that the Assam Rifles is colluding with the K group to hurt the IM leadership, Mulatonu countered it by saying that the IM faction was playing into the hands of the Indian forces and killing Naga K cadres. “They have reached an agreement with the Indian and Myanamrese Governments,” Mulatonu claimed.
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