Morung Express News
Dimapur | August 18
A UK based Naga Support Group has issued a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on the quit notice served to the Tangkhul community recently by the NSCN (K) and has alleged that “the Khaplang group from Burmese-occupied Nagalim has been made to issue ‘quit notice’ to the Tangkhul Naga community”.
Terming the NSCN (K) as a ‘tool of the Indian intelligence services’, Professor Timothy Kaping, President of Naga Support Group (UK) alleged that the Indian government, in its attempt to pressurize the NSCN (IM) to renounce its struggle for self determination and to accept the “Hindu-inspired Indian constitution”, was indirectly resorting to such kind of ploy.
“India had unsuccessfully played this dirty game through the Khaplang group before, killing many Tangkhuls and other Naga civilians. As such, we will be indebted if the UN kindly takes note of this sadistic savagery of India and its mercenaries, and also encourage the Indian government and the NSCN to work sincerely for peaceful resolution of the 50 odd years Indo-Naga conflict”, the letter written to the UN Secretary General stated.
The letter also complained that, in spite of the many assurances given to the NSCN (IM), the Indian government was yet to take any positive steps. The UK based Naga Support Group also informed Annan about the twenty-four US Congressmen who wrote a letter to President Clinton on 20 October 1999 in support of “Nagalim’s right to self-determination”.
The September 8, 2005 letter written by former US President Jimmy Carter praised the Indian government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as the NSCN leaders for the initiative taken to work towards a peaceful and lasting solution to the Indo-Naga political problem was also mentioned to Annan.
