Dimapur, May 26 (MExN): The NSCN-K is not convinced of the NSCN-IM calling all who are ‘for sovereignty’ and rather, advised the people to “open your eyes, ears and minds; look, listen and try to understand what is what and who is who.”
“Now, why should we argue and condemn each other to become a laughing stock before our adversaries? But what we want to say is that the patriots or the revolutionaries should be always discreet, firm, honest, consistent and play a very clean politics, come what may, lack of honesty, cheatings, bluffing and inconsistencies are the real attributes of self-interested over ground puppet politicians” the NSCN-K maintained through Ami Konyak, “under-secretary” of MIP. “Any sign of inconsistencies or infirmness would certainly cost any revolutionary movement costly or rather collapse any movement” a statement observed.
While acknowledging that Isaac Swu and Thuigaleng Muivah, no doubt, started their work for Naga sovereignty “in their early lives” but, the NSCN-K stated, they are also responsible for thousands of innocent Nagas killed in the name of sovereignty. “They have put down any voice of dissent with iron hands. Now, they are indiscriminately killing innocent men in hundreds in order to bring the sovereign Nagas under threat and coercion under the Constitution of India or Union with India under the duo’s wishes. How long and how many times they would befool the innocent and simple Nagas?” the NSCN-K queried.
The NSCN-K also took note that while 31- point charter of demands or competencies were submitted by Swu and Muivah to the Indian government at the beginning of their dialogue, “was there any mention of Naga Sovereignty in that charter of demand?” When the “competencies document” met with a failure, Swu and Muivah submitted “lower and lesser proposals in early 2005 to Indian government that also could not pass through” the NSCN-K observed.
It also recounted Th. Muivah’s December 15, 2005, interview Subhir-Bhumik of the North-East Sun where Muivah said (the NSCN-K quoted) “I feel doubly tired because there seems to be no results coming out of the talks. We have come from our demand of absolute Sovereignty, but the GoI seems to be playing for time.” The NSCN-K also stated that in an interview with senior journalist Sheela Bhatt, the interlocutor of the NSCN-IM is said to have replied, “They are not sticking to their original stand of Sovereignty. I personally think they are looking for a solution within the Indian Union, and that is a major step forward.” Similarly in 2005, in an interview with the BBC (Hard Talk) in Delhi, Th. Muivah said, ‘we have climbed down from our position of absolute Sovereignty, but still the government of India does not want to concade to our other demands,’” the NSCN-K stated.
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