Ceasefire exist in Nagaland not Burma: GPRN/NSCN

DIMAPUR, JULY 14 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN has pointed out that the “problem confronting the Naga people in the aftermath of impeachment and expulsion of former chairman S.S Khaplang from NSCN on 7th June 2011 by the National Assembly” was the “emergence of antisocial elements threatening the Naga people, especially business establishments with violence and bloodshed”. A press note issued by the MIP stated that the “bomb explosion twice in a short span of time” was a wake up call for the Nagas to assess the real intention of these elements propagating the name of S.S Khaplang.  
“GPRN/NSCN is clear that if they want to hang on to Khaplang, they should go to Burmese side and indulge in violence and extortion. To still regard Khaplang as GPRN president is comparable to few Egyptian lunatics who still call discarded Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as the president of Egypt”, the MIP note stated. The GPRN/NSCN argued that till 2010, Hosni Mubarak signed many peace agreements, treaties and business ventures with other countries yet the former president is now a mere public while the agreements he signed are still in force implemented by new Egyptian leaders.
Similarly it stated that S.S Khaplang, in his time, endorsed Ceasefire with the GOI in 2001 and did signed the Covenant of Reconciliation in 2008 yet by the verdict of the National Assembly on 7th June 2011, as per the National Yehzabo, all GPRN presidential responsibilities and NSCN Chairman’s authority and powers now vests with Gen. Khole Konyak as the smooth transition of responsibility has completed.
Pointing out that if the Government of India (GOI) was really sincere in seeking a solution to the Indo-Naga political problem, it need not be bothered by “few miscreants stretching a thin rubber between eastern and western Nagaland”.  “Ceasefire exists in Nagaland and GPRN/NSCN leadership is consulting the Naga people”, the MIP stated.
The GPRN/NSCN stated that it was “closely monitoring a group of anti-social elements who, under the shadow of S.S Khaplang, appears to have found a perfect way to make easy money through extortion threats and intimidation of business community and offices in Nagaland”. At this period, GPRN/NSCN appealed to general public and business community and offices in Nagaland not to cow down to the threats and diktats of extortionists such as A Kits, L Tuccu, A K Yeptho, G Sema etc., terming them as “men with criminals records in various police stations, bombarding the business community and offices with telephonic threats and dishing out telephone numbers in the local dailies where extortion money is to be submitted”.
The GPRN/NSCN stated that it “will not hesitate to arrest these men as each has a non-existent government in their pockets” and that if “Nagas really desires peace and unity, these anti social elements must jointly be controlled”. “GPRN/NSCN demands the law enforcing agencies to put an end to the activities of these prime offenders who are keeping the business community and offices in Nagaland at ransom”.



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