DIMAPUR, JULY 12 (MExN): Expressing concern on the slow progress of the Indo-Naga peace dialogue which has stretched on for 10 years, the Naga International Support Centre today squarely blamed the Centre for intensifying “it’s divide and rule tactics” to weaken “the Naga forces which on behalf of the Naga peoples stand for their right.”
A press note titled ‘Cease Fire between the Government of India and the Naga Peoples hanging by a thread’ enunciated, “Ten years of Ceasefire followed by Peace talks between the Government of India and the Naga Nation have not resulted into anything tangible.”
“This conflict has to end and not just because it is not just one sided. It has to end because it is inhumane. It is India which as a state commits state terrorism. To be respectable the International community to end this long standing human misery, should intervene instantly.”
Reiterating that India annexed Nagaland and divided it after British colonial rule, the NISC stated, “Playing with the mouse Nagaland the elephant India time and again requires the Nagas to come up with proposals to end this conflict but does not seem to have any policy which could lead into that direction. Playing the divide and rule game to the fullest it stalls for time while hoping that way the Naga Society will disintegrate and thus will no longer put up the resistance to the neo colonial rule which India by way force through stationing 200.000 soldiers there. It holds Nagaland in an iron grip.”
“And, now that India occupied their divided lands, still the Nagas have not been conquered.” “Considering the imminent collapse of the Ceasefire and Peace talks which will lead to exorbitant turmoil and bloodshed, the Naga International Support Center calls on all nations and the international press to expose this festering sore which has rotten in obscurity for over 50 years now. On the basis of human rights alone this outrage, this open wound in the side of mankind has to be dressed and the war has to be stopped.”
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