DIMAPUR, OCT 13 (MExN): The Naga Peoples’ Movement For Human Rights (NPMHR) expressing shock over the recent spurt of violence reminded that the inhuman acts are alienating the people. The violence has inflicted a deep physical and psychological wound on the people, it reminded. The NPMHR strongly condemned the killing of an innocent boy late Inato, who became a victim of a factional clash at Zunheboto on September 29, 2006.
“We are also anguished that an innocent student late Shimmei Shingnaisui, was kidnapped and murdered in cold blood. Such an inhuman cowardice act of crime is alien to our society,” the NPMHR stated in a release. It also stated that the killing of a policeman late Hovizo Puyu in broad daylight in Kohima is a grim reminder of unprecedented violence in the society. These gruesome crimes demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the state security system to protect its citizens.
While on the other hand the recurrence of the highhandedness of the state security machinery against the public is increasingly becoming a threat to the safety of the people as exemplified by the brutal killing of a student late Lumtiplung Kamei by the 11th IRB personnel on September 28, the NPHMR added.
The NPHMR cautioned that when a law enforcing agency itself becomes a threat to the people it is expected to protect, and also when crimes are perpetrated under the guise of national struggle, there is this imminent danger of creating alienation among different sections of the people.
“This will serve only to create confusion among our people and give more space to forces inimical to the Naga cause to further their policy of dividing the Nagas. At this crucial juncture when we need a concerted effort from all walks of life for strengthening our struggle, it is regrettable that we often fall prey to the insidious neocolonial design of division, extermination and self destruction,” the NPHMR lamented
While expressing its deepest sympathy to the families of the victims, the NPMHR extended its solidarity and support to the people against all acts of violence, and reaffirmed its endeavor to establish a society based on justice and dignity for all. The NPMHR also cautioned against introduction of any kind of fanatism and extremism in the society which will only tarnish the history of the Naga movement. The NPMHR called on the Naga people to be on guard against the rise of all sorts of extremism which is alien to the Naga culture of tolerance and mutual co-existence.
