Dimapur, August 29 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN has termed as “absurd” the allegation made by V Horam, Kilonser Ministry of Internal Security of the NSCN/GPRN who had stated that Major Ngachonmi was killed by the combined force of 6th Assam Rifles, the GPRN/NSCN and the 164th Infantry Territorial Army. “To drag the name of GPRN/NSCN in the killing is utterly disgusting. As a Christian he has devalued himself miserably by indulging in an inconceivable lie. Such outrageous accusations could only originate from Hebron camp and from people like V Horam who have nothing but destructive policies”, stated a press note issued by the MIP. Stating that the public in the area are the witnesses, the GPRN/NSCN pointed out that the Assam rifles have clarified that they fired in self defense which killed the victim. “Habitual liars sometimes deceive themselves”, the press note stated.
On the killing of Zaremo Odyuo, a civilian worker on 26th August at Mekokla in Lotha Region by “Hebron campers”, the GPRN/NSCN reminded the Nagas that “there is a group operating in Nagaland who believes that Reconciliation and killing must go hand in hand”. “It is to be clarified that when a group of men attacks an unsuspecting victim who has no intention to cause harm to anyone especially during reconciliation process, it is murder and not a factional clash”, the note stated. Pointing out that this was a deliberate violation of the Covenant of Reconciliation; the GPRN/NSCN stated that the FNR and all peace loving Nagas “may differentiate between factional clash and non retaliating victims who are murdered in time of peace”.
The GPRN/NSCN also alleged that in the name of Naga political struggle “blatant accusations, killings and justifications have been the three most important tools employed by a group of people at Hebron camp against the Nagas”. It stated that many “prominent Naga intellectuals have been killed simply because they chose reason over emotion” and also that “thousands of civilians and national workers have been murdered over the decades accusing them as traitors”. It went on to state that a “struggling people deserve the right to know and identify the obstacles along the path to unity and political destiny”.
According to the press note from the GPRN/NSCN, the greatest challenge for the Nagas today is to “understand the ground reality and prepare future course of action towards our inalienable political right in relation to” what it described as the “dead of the peace talks between IM and GOI as announced by the Indian Home Minister in the Parliament”; the “welcome progress and scope of Naga Reconciliation Process spearheaded by the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) and lastly the “the groundwork being prepared by a section of people at Hebron camp aiding and abetting demand for alternative political arrangement for Nagas in Manipur state”.
The press note stated that “elaborations of the above points are not necessary as they are self explanatory” and that it is “important that Naga people disapprove violence to be the refuge for those who have failed the Naga Nation”.
