The itinerary of the NSCN’s Leadership to Zunhebuto has been deferred on account of the following untenable conditions laid down by the Government of India and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) through its CFMG signed by Col. Rajwant Singh Colonel General Staff for Officiating Chairman,
1. NSCN (IM) leaders will travel without weapons
2. Personal security guards shall not carry weapons even in concealed manner
3. Number of vehicle not to exceed twenty.
4. Leaders will not hold any public meeting or press conference
We are extremely shocked by the immature policy of the GOI when the NSCN is holding serious political negotiation to end the more than six decades of conflict. We seriously question the stand of the GOI and the MHA. The position taken by the MHA has nakedly exposed the true colour of the GOI and a big question on their sincerity in finding an early and honourable political solution.
We condemn in the strongest term the double standard and provocative decision of the GOI to prevent the visit of our Chairman Isak Chishi Swu and General Secretary, Th. Muivah to Zunhebuto. We consider this a policy of dividing the Nagas and deliberately excluding the Naga people from the efforts to arrive at a peaceful political solution.
Lasting political solution can be arrived at only through genuine democratic process of involving the people. Therefore, we question the deliberate strategy of the GOI to exclude the Naga people from the peace process and that certainly will have grave ramifications.
Failing to understand and value the steps taken by the Nagas to seek peaceful political solution to the decades old political conflict, we observe, is a serious political bankruptcy within the Indian leadership
The NSCN thank the Sumi people including the Sumi Hoho, student communities and Church fraternity for their earnest effort to welcome the Collective Leadership, Chairman Isak Chishi Swu and General Secretary, Th. Muivah and their entourage. We learnt that you have given your utmost efforts. We are sincerely moved. We thank you, the Sumi people. We will not fail to come and we will not leave you behind in the final political solution.
Kuknalim
MIP, NSCN/ GPRN
