Dimapur, November 12 (MExN): The National Socialist Women Organization of Nagalim (NSWON), the women wing of the NSCN (IM) today strongly deplored the rising cases of violence against women in the society, especially the two recent rape cases in Mokokchung district and said that the incidents ‘is shameful and insulting in the true sense of the term given the status the Naga women enjoyed in the by-gone years and the public feeling we valued’.
“The NSWON while observing the sorry state of affairs in Mokokchung District wished that Mokokchung as one of the few places in Nagalim with seeming show of development had not come into the glare of the public on the issue of these rape incidents where the arraignment is also yet to take off,” the NSWON said in a press release issued through the MIP.
Strongly deploring the indifferent attitude of the law-enforcing agency towards the rape cases, the NSWON pointed out that ‘rape is no ordinary crime to be given these sorts of legal negligent’. “The way the District Police is sitting over the issue that has direct bearing to human dignity is absolutely repugnant we are still too distraught to think of the police morality that has gone down to such level,” the release stated. The release opined that the police forces should go extra mile to nail the rapist and prove their worth by judicious use of the power at their disposal.
“The Mokokchung Police’s follow up of the rape cases is far from satisfaction,” the release stated and at the same time echoed the NSCN (IM)’s opinion that capital punishment should be awarded to rapists. “More painful is the absence demonstrative conviction of rapists with capital punishment to drive home the point that sexual crime against womenfolk is abhorrent to a civilized society that the Nagas is also a part of,” the release stated.
The release also exhorted the apex Ao Women organization and said that ‘it is a matter of responsibility with social commitment that the WATSU Mungdang awaken themselves to the issue that has pricked their conscience as women who value their dignity and honour’. “The tradition of the Ao or for the same matter the Nagas who normally attached a place of honour for the women must be preserved at all cost,” it stated.
The release pointed that the rape of Narokala of Kangtsung Village and the rape and murder of Tajennaro of Mokokchung Village, who went through ‘animal like aggression on women will remain as a painful episode in the psyche of the Nagas who matters in guarding the women’s rights without which our obsession for human rights is meaningless’. The NSWON also decried the assault of the Wanching villagers by the NSCN (K).
“This is not only inhuman but highly uncivilized. This is archaic and unfair and the Nagas as a whole need to react in a befitting manner,” the release stated and added that hurting public sentiments through physical torture is a risky gamble going by the sensitivity of today’s public mindset.
The NSWON also expressed solidarity with NSCW member Ellen Konyak that National Workers without the cooperation of the public can achieve nothing worth for the cause of the Nagas.
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