Dimapur, September 15 (MExN): An organization in Nagaland today denounced with it called “recent incidences of Indian security forces vandalizing homes, looting and harassing of women and children at Mon town and burning of peace centers.” Naga People’s Movement of Human right (NPMHR) issued a note today decrying the “recent incidences.”
“The recent incidences of Indian security forces vandalizing homes, looting and harassing of women and children at Mon town and burning of peace centers at Ketsapo village of Phek district on the 12th and 6th of September 2011 and razing it to ashes respectively have once again brought back harsh memories of the Indian army atrocities that devastated the entire Naga areas in the backdrop of a 64 years of political conflict between the Government of India and the Naga national political movement,” the organization said.
The NMPHR trained its ire on the security forces, who according to the Naga organization is the only one responsible for “thousands of scars” that have ‘not healed yet and thousands of homes still bleed and weeps for the lives that were inhumanly snatched away by Indian armed forces.’
The NPMHR said the Naga “national movement” was also for safeguarding the Nagas’ land and its resources, “which were again thoroughly exploited by various Indian agencies and in many cases in collaboration with local people who are ignorant in some cases and with state agencies who exploits its own people and resources devoid of any sense of responsibility and regardless of future prospects so long as it benefits their immediate interests.”
ONGC and Oil spill
An instance of ‘exploitation’ the NPMHR gave was that of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) and issues associated with oil in Nagaland.
The NPMHR explained in one length: “And ever since, in the guise of exploring, the ONGC started exploiting and taking away thousands of metric tons of crude oil daily from Changpang oil fields despite protests from NSF and other Naga organizations and peoples movements.
Ultimately for the situation their activities have created, the ONGC was compelled to stop their activities leaving the oil fields and wells unattended and open to all kinds of spillage leaving the areas surrounding them vulnerable to all kinds of health hazards and environmental dilapidation, for which the people of Changpang and Tissori villages are now suffering the consequences.”
For the stated reasons, the organization said, the Public Interest Litigation filed recently against ONGC and others should be ‘supported by all concerned and justice in whatever way be found although the damages that have been done are beyond repair now.’
“The PIL should also be viewed and used as an instrument to speed up all process of legal procedures and restoration of normalcy in all the oil ravaged lands and not be taken otherwise under any pretext,” the NPMHR stated.
The organization also welcomes “another milestone to unite” under a “Naga national government” in the recently concluded high-level meeting under the facilitation of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation.
“NPMHR also takes this as an opportunity to request all other political groups to take this development as an opportunity of an inclusive process and not to react otherwise, which the FNR have time and again assured and re-assured the Naga public,” the organization added.
“The recent incidences of Indian security forces vandalizing homes, looting and harassing of women and children at Mon town and burning of peace centers at Ketsapo village of Phek district on the 12th and 6th of September 2011 and razing it to ashes respectively have once again brought back harsh memories of the Indian army atrocities that devastated the entire Naga areas in the backdrop of a 64 years of political conflict between the Government of India and the Naga national political movement,” the organization said.
The NMPHR trained its ire on the security forces, who according to the Naga organization is the only one responsible for “thousands of scars” that have ‘not healed yet and thousands of homes still bleed and weeps for the lives that were inhumanly snatched away by Indian armed forces.’
The NPMHR said the Naga “national movement” was also for safeguarding the Nagas’ land and its resources, “which were again thoroughly exploited by various Indian agencies and in many cases in collaboration with local people who are ignorant in some cases and with state agencies who exploits its own people and resources devoid of any sense of responsibility and regardless of future prospects so long as it benefits their immediate interests.”
ONGC and Oil spill
An instance of ‘exploitation’ the NPMHR gave was that of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) and issues associated with oil in Nagaland.
The NPMHR explained in one length: “And ever since, in the guise of exploring, the ONGC started exploiting and taking away thousands of metric tons of crude oil daily from Changpang oil fields despite protests from NSF and other Naga organizations and peoples movements.
Ultimately for the situation their activities have created, the ONGC was compelled to stop their activities leaving the oil fields and wells unattended and open to all kinds of spillage leaving the areas surrounding them vulnerable to all kinds of health hazards and environmental dilapidation, for which the people of Changpang and Tissori villages are now suffering the consequences.”
For the stated reasons, the organization said, the Public Interest Litigation filed recently against ONGC and others should be ‘supported by all concerned and justice in whatever way be found although the damages that have been done are beyond repair now.’
“The PIL should also be viewed and used as an instrument to speed up all process of legal procedures and restoration of normalcy in all the oil ravaged lands and not be taken otherwise under any pretext,” the NPMHR stated.
The organization also welcomes “another milestone to unite” under a “Naga national government” in the recently concluded high-level meeting under the facilitation of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation.
“NPMHR also takes this as an opportunity to request all other political groups to take this development as an opportunity of an inclusive process and not to react otherwise, which the FNR have time and again assured and re-assured the Naga public,” the organization added.
