Kohima, April 23 (MExN): The Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) has welcomed the Open Hearing of the National Human Rights Commission which is scheduled for April 24 in Kohima.
Eight cases pertaining to Nagaland would be taken up in the Open Hearing which will be led by Justice D. Murugesan, Member NHRC.
The NVCO in a statement from its Media Cell claimed that violation of human rights has become a “day to day event” in the society and insisted that human right is the “need of the hour”.
Pointing out that there is no State Human Rights Commission in Nagaland, the NVCO termed it “unconstitutional” on the part of the state government for not extending co-operation to the NHRC.
“Despite repeated direction sent to the State Government by the Central Government, Apex Court and also High Court directive through PIL, the State Government fails to establish State Human Rights Commission,” the NVCO stated.
The consumer organization stated that Nagaland “is an example of being a slaughter house of human rights” and as an argument cited a number of incidents of “atrocities and barbaric killings” which took place in the state in the past 4 years. “Insurgency, problems of drugs, alcoholism among youths and adults, child abuse, extortion, delay in receiving justice… have seriously disturbed the peace and tranquillity of the citizens in the state,” the NVCO argued.
It further argued that the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, 1958, was “one of the main problems” faced by the citizens of the region. “A major theme of the human rights discourse is the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act 1958 widely seen in this state as ‘Draconian’”, the NVCO maintained.
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