Dimapur, August 19 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today said that the mob that killed three of its cadres inside a Jail in Tuensang on August 18, was a group of lunatics who were carried away by the call of some war-mongering leaders, and clarified the NSCN (IM)’s Ministry of Information and Publicity should have not categorized the mob as belonging to the Phom community.
“It is an inadvertent mistake on the part of MIP to have categorized the mob in the Tuensang incident as Phoms. This is not the true picture of the story and the mob are a group of lunatic-like people carried away by the call of some war-mongering leaders usually found on the streets looking for trouble,” an NSCN (IM)/MIP press release said.
The release said that the mob indulging in such fury is just mindless demonstration of their overbearing mindset. “The incident have brought heaps of insult and lost of human dignity to the whole Nagas,” said the release.
The release said that due to ‘certain circumstantial pressure’, the NSCN (IM) Phom cadres might have gone overboard in their ‘tax collection’, which might have caused the incident. However, the release asserted that the incident created by the unruly mob can never be condoned by any human standard and that the ‘application of animal-like instinct to take full control of the situation’ was not warranted.
“The NSCN (IM) cadres in Tuensang may come and go, but if the uncivilized method of social dealing is not buried for good, where is the guarantee that such horrid human drama shall not be repeated,” the release said. “Certainly Nagas should be ashamed of witnessing their own people going headstrong, but only to bull-doze their way to damnation,” the release added.
The release called for good sense to prevail among the people in Tuensang, and also called for doing away with ‘the Tuensang social status which has already been rated as below standard by today’s civilized scale’.
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