Instead of healing the mind of dear and near ones for the loss of my loving father, late Venyiyi Rhakhu, who was massacred along with many more precious lives during the end of 1979, it is shocking that the perpetrators are rubbing salt into the injury even after 30 years of his assassination, in APO consultative meeting with TH. Muivah on the 9th July 2010. Muivah have attempted to justify killing of my father, alleging that late Mr. Vamuzo and Mrs. Rano Shaiza has sent to assassinate him. The allegation is unauthenticated and lacks evidences. Knowing a dead man cannot rise to defend himself.
Therefore I am compelled to issue this statement to clarify the position as much as I know. After he refused to sign the Shillong Accord, my father attempted to move to China and my elder brother and I have joined him in his entourage/ Alee Command to Tibet in 1977.we have stayed for nine months at Lhasa. With assurance from China we returned to mobilize our people. Thereafter we traveled to Bangladesh stayed at silheite and returned home. Eastern Nagaland also did not agree with the Shillong Accord, which was conspicuous. During this period at home in Nagaland, deputed him from time to time to Eastern Nagaland ( Myanmar) perhaps to keep the relation at home ( Nagaland) and Eastern Nagaland (Myanmar).
I know my father as true God fearing Naga National Worker. I do not believe that anyone would be able to employ my father as an assassinator. He works in his conviction and unless he is very clear he would not act. He is more careful because his paper qualification is low. He refused to join the revolutionary Govt in 1970’s. He refused to sign the Shillong Accord after verification and re-verification through interpreters.
While writing this clarification, I also wish to put our record straight before the Nagas, that late Mr. Vamuzo and Mrs. Rano Shaiza and our family knew them as our sympathizers. Similarly they have extended their thoughtful courtesy towards the other Naga National Workers family equally. Over and above we also knew both the leaders as conscientious and God fearing leaders. Therefore, the allegation of their role in hatching criminal conspiracies in any manner are erroneous and beyond our imagination.
Lastly, as stated above, baseless and outrageous public utterance made by a leader of stature has pushed us to give this clarification. Otherwise, after the gap of 25 years, when the mortal skeletal remains of my father late Mr. Venyiyi Rhakhu was restored at Thuvopisu village from Eastern Nagaland, I the writer of this press release on behalf of the family members have already declared to forgive the perpetrators of the crime whoever they maybe during the memorial service on the 12th Dec’ 2004. As such, this sordid episode that haunted the conscious of some Naga National Workers for the last three decades may please be put to rest in a true Christian spirit.
Dezoto Rhakho,
Thuvopisu village
