Dimapur, July 3 (MExN): The Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) today said the recent split in the erstwhile Khaplang faction of the NSCN is a setback and that unless the “trend is reversed” the future seems even bleaker for the Nagas. The Working Committee of the NPF met on July 1 in Kohima. The party discussed on the recent division that took place within the erstwhile GPRN/NSCN (K) group. The NPF said the “unfortunate turn of event” has surprised the Naga people.
“At a time when Nagas were desperately trying to forge unity amongst the national workers through the spirit of reconciliation, this further division has emerged as a major setback. Unless this trend is reversed and cohesion is consolidated amongst them, the future scenario appears to be very grim and so members expressed serious apprehensions under such circumstances,” the NPF’s working committee stated in a statement today.
The NPF working committee appeals to all the leaders of the various groups to let good sense and logic prevail over their decisions and sink their differences in the greater interest of the Naga people “while we continue to make a concerted effort towards achieving an amicable settlement to the Indo- Naga political issue.” The party also requests the Government of India to continue and extend the ceasefire to all Naga underground groups to ensure a “conducive atmosphere for the ongoing peace process at various levels.”
Another issued the NPF Working Committee broached was the June 30 spate of violence in Dimapur where three people were killed in separate incidents. “The meeting out rightly condemned such dastardly act of violence in the Naga society and appealed to one and all to rise above narrow issues and find a more tolerable way of expressions other than resorting to such extreme measures,” the NPF statement said.
“Terror attacks on the common man will not be condoned at any cost and such practices should find no room in the Naga society. The meeting therefore, resolved to appeal to all concern to book the culprits and set an exemplary punishment,” the committee stated. KG Kenye, member secretary of the committee, appended the statement.
“At a time when Nagas were desperately trying to forge unity amongst the national workers through the spirit of reconciliation, this further division has emerged as a major setback. Unless this trend is reversed and cohesion is consolidated amongst them, the future scenario appears to be very grim and so members expressed serious apprehensions under such circumstances,” the NPF’s working committee stated in a statement today.
The NPF working committee appeals to all the leaders of the various groups to let good sense and logic prevail over their decisions and sink their differences in the greater interest of the Naga people “while we continue to make a concerted effort towards achieving an amicable settlement to the Indo- Naga political issue.” The party also requests the Government of India to continue and extend the ceasefire to all Naga underground groups to ensure a “conducive atmosphere for the ongoing peace process at various levels.”
Another issued the NPF Working Committee broached was the June 30 spate of violence in Dimapur where three people were killed in separate incidents. “The meeting out rightly condemned such dastardly act of violence in the Naga society and appealed to one and all to rise above narrow issues and find a more tolerable way of expressions other than resorting to such extreme measures,” the NPF statement said.
“Terror attacks on the common man will not be condoned at any cost and such practices should find no room in the Naga society. The meeting therefore, resolved to appeal to all concern to book the culprits and set an exemplary punishment,” the committee stated. KG Kenye, member secretary of the committee, appended the statement.
