DIMAPUR, SEPT 13 (MExN): The NSCN (K) has termed the May 16-27, 2005 visit of Grace Lyu Collins and her team from USA to Nagaland as an ‘ill-will’ mission and has alleged that, “She and her team came to Dimapur and Kohima not to study the conflicts between India and Nagaland, but to conjecture accusations and abuses against NSCN and NNC/FGN by conducting stage-managed interviews and interactions with Isak-Khodao terrorists group as taught and instructed by Thuingaleng Muivah, the architect of terrorisms in Naga areas.”
“Grace Lyu Collins is a Korean-American and is paid 10,000 US Dollars per month by Isak-Khodao terrorists group and also some additional fund for carrying out her nefarious activities in the name of Naga self-determination,” an NSCN (K) MIP release said.
Quoting a passage from Collins’ report which says she received most of her information from members of civil society organizations, the NSCN (K) said that as indicated in the report, the Naga Hoho, NSF and NPMHR were invited by the NSCN/GPRN to Mon in order to have discussions on the report and to thrash out all misgivings contained in the report. “But the three organizations refused to turn up.”
In the aftermath of this, the Naga Mothers Association leaders were then invited to Mon to which they obliged, the release recounted. “The NSCN leaders politely told them that they had been indicted in the Grace’s report and that those indictments are on their charge sheets. But the delegation members (NMA) expressed their ignorance of the contents of the report.”
The NMA leaders were then told “to do something in this regard and distance or disassociate themselves from the report, if they really wanted to absolve themselves of all the charges” to which they agreed and left, the NSCN (K) said.
“But on reaching Kohima they (NMA) have had a meeting of the so-called executives. After the meeting, they issued press statement only saying that the ‘NMA had nothing to do with the report and findings’ of the Grace Collins team ‘mission report’.”
Stating that the motives and intentions of the NMA leaders are now very clear, the NSCN (K) said, “They could not absolve themselves from the charges, because the report of the ill-will mission had been well-documented and cannot be erased easily.”
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