Dimapur, April 12 (MExN): Reacting to the Manipur government issuing arrest warrants against two NSCN-IM’s functionaries over a murder case, the outfit laments that the Manipur government is vying to exercise it judicial hand beyond administrative boundaries which, an MIP note asserted, is “contrary to international laws.”
“That the instruction and advice by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs to a state of their union of such directive, shows their dishonorable and disrespectable commitment to the Indo-Naga unconditional political peace process. That the inalienable legitimate rights of the Nagas be recognized and not infringed or encroached upon deliberately” the MIP note stated.
“The Naga people have since time immemorial been executing out legal laws in the customary law of our land. Therefore any crime committed under the jurisdiction of Nagalim is to be tried under the Naga customary law” the organization asserted while highlighting village local courts and their systems. The Naga people have a popular government with the NSCN-IM being, the note claimed, “the legitimate government of the Naga people,” which is engaged in dialogue with the GoI. “When crime takes place under Nagalim national jurisdiction and the investigation and trial under process, the issue of arresting GPRN authorities by an external entity is illegal, null and void” the MIP stated.
The NSCN-IM lamented that the Manipur state government “out of its inefficiency and contravening international legal norms” is trying to “escape its failures” and frustration by tainting the “GPRN’s mage” it stated adding that they (Manipur government) have employed all attempts to derail the peace process by “falsifying facts.” Now it is left to the GoI in demonstrating its respectability or “dishonorability” but the Nagas will remain committed to the peace-process but not at the cost of their inalienable rights, it added.
