‘Threat culture against tenets of Naga unity’
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 22 (MExN): The United Naga Council (UNC) along with the Naga Women’s Union, Manipur (NWUM), All Naga Students Association, Manipur (ANSAM) and the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR South) has stated that it considered the “recent emergence of threat culture as totally against the process of Naga unity and is antithetical to the spirit of our common struggle towards our united vision”.
This joint statement was issued against the background of ‘quit notice’ served by the NSCN (K) to the Tangkhul community recently through the local media. “The strategy of selective branding and targeting of a community falls within the larger stratagem of the dominant powers ‘cut and clear’ tactic to weaken the Naga struggle for self – determination”, the joint statement issued by four organizations stated.
While pointing out that it was astonishing for any Naga struggle group to make allegations against “another as ‘terrorist’ which similarly falls within the same propaganda wave of the subjugating powers”, the organizations stated that this would endanger the collective peoples’ struggle, leading towards a self-annihilatory process besides projecting the peoples’ movement negatively to the wider international community.
“The Naga public should jointly voice out against promotion of such culture of hatred and intolerance but progressively work together with increasing understanding and goodwill for the fulfillment of our aspiration”, it stated and appealed to all Naga political groups to maintain restraint, rationality and courageously work with a united purpose to usher in healing and lasting peace in our homeland.
Naga MPs appeal to NSCN (K)
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 22 (MExN): Four Naga Parliamentarians have in a signed statement pointed out that they were “saddened beyond words” to learn about the Quit Notice served to the Tangkhuls to leave Nagaland State by August 17, 2006 as issued bt the NSCN (K). “We consider the notice unfortunate, unwise and against the interest of the Naga people”, stated Rishang Keishing, MP, Rajya Sabha, Manipur; Wangyuh Konyak, MP, Lok Sabha, Nagaland; T.R Zeliang, MP, Rajya Sabha, Nagaland and Mani Charenamei, MP, Lok Sabha, Manipur in a signed statement issued from New Delhi. The four MPs have therefore appealed to the leaders of the NSCN (K) to reconsider their stand in the interest of Naga unity and integrity and also urged the Nagaland government, the leading NGOs to take up all precautionary measures so that no single drop of innocent blood is shed due to the quit notice.
