DIMAPUR, MAY 27 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today asked the Government of India to understand that “no amount of force however oppressive and overwhelming can be forceful enough to suppress the genuine human longing for freedom, liberty and justice for too long.”
A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (K) said that “declaring and treating the Naga freedom fighters as terrorist will not make us a terrorist...” The oppressed, it said “have every right to use every means to defend itself.”
It further asked the Government of India whether India would accept their freedom fighters who fought against the British being branded as “terrorists.”
The NSCN (K) said that the colonial British laws which oppressed Indians for centuries had failed to suppress the Indian freedom struggle. This, it stated should have convinced the Indian leaders of the “futility of reinforcing the same laws upon the Nagas for more than half a century now.” “It has yielded nothing else but the senseless,” the NSCN (K) said.
“The Nagas and the NSCN/GPRN in particular since the imposition of the foreign rule and resultant aggression have not targeted, injured or killed even a single innocent Indian civilian citizen. There is not a single report of the Nagas damaging the properties, assets and vital installations owned by Indian citizen or the Government of India hitherto. Either in Naga country, India or abroad, the Nagas have not hurt or sabotaged the interest of the Indian Government or engaged the Indians with violence anywhere across the globe,” the NSCN (K) claimed.
It further stated that the Nagas “did not take to arms until India began using her Armed Forces.” It added that if the “gross human rights violation” by the Indian Government in J&K and North East is exposed, India’s claim to being a non violent welfare democratic country and its prospects of becoming a permanent of the UN Security Council “would revert.”
The NSCN (K) said that India’s decision to enforce “inhuman laws of the British era” on the Nagas in a “more systematic and sophisticated manner in an era of democracy and global enlightenment will certainly be highly regretted.”
