Dimapur, Nov 11 (MExN): Taking exception that oftentimes the NSCN-IM is referred to as the biggest and strongest organization in the north-east, the NSCN-K has challenged the notion stating that the assertions are “exaggerations” and “flattery”.
“Many a time we come across some people and media persons saying that IK organization and its armed terrorists are the biggest and strongest organization in the entire Northeast and Indian sub-continent. Is it true, how? Is it logically inferred conclusion by studying all the ground realities or figments of imaginations?” an NSCN-K MIP release questioned. It stated that such exaggerations and “flattery” embolden and excites the NSCN-IM to carry out more acts of terrorism in Nagaland and elsewhere, and that their cadres are deployed in Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh Assam and Meghalaya to extort money. The NSCN-IM has also declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Myanmar military junta and that “they need not keep their contingents in Myanmar”, the MIP maintained.
However, the NSCN-K has its ‘administration’ in most parts of Naga-inhabited areas where “we are at daggers drawn with the Myanmar army junta and so the major portion of the Naga peoples’ army are mobilized in the so-called Burma Naga areas” it stated adding that “we have our administration in the entire area which is at least four times of the size of present Nagaland”. In the Naga areas “the so-called Nagalim”, only (remnants) of our personnel work especially for the protection of civilian authorities because we have ceasefire with the GoI”, it asserted. Further, the NSCN-K held view that the “expertise” of NSCN-IM is due to its ‘terrorizing people into submission, hiding their killed members so that they are not degraded and living a luxurious life at the expense of the common people’. On this, the NSCN-K challenged that the notion of “who is big, who is small and who is strong and who is weak” be examined and cautioned against ‘exaggerations’ which would create more confusion.
