NSCN (IM) says it cannot be part of the NNPGs solution
Says “if NNPGs are so keen to go for a Naga solution as per its Agreed Position we wish them to go ahead”
DIMAPUR, APRIL 14 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today said if the WC, NNPGs are “so keen to go for a Naga solution as per its Agreed Position, we wish them to go ahead and let the Naga people witness what they could achieve for the Naga people.”
However, it stated that the NSCN (IM) “cannot be a part of the NNPGs solution” because of what it said was “betrayal to the Naga people’s mandate of the 1929 Simon Commission Memorandum, 1947 Naga Independence Declaration and 1951 Plebiscite.”
A press release from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) in response to a recent statement from the WC, NNPGs stated that the NSCN (IM) can “never be a party to sell out the Naga’s political nationality and identity by stooping so low.” “We are never going to surrender our rights so tamely. History will judge and we simply cannot betray the sacrifices of the thousands of martyrs,” it added.
It meanwhile said that “Nagas who are working as Indian mercenaries” are at “work going through sleepless nights to wreck the Naga issue and destroy the Naga national identity which the Nagas have shed blood, tears and sweat for over six decades.”
It said that the NSCN (IM) “stood alone at the hardest times of the Naga national struggle. We fought single-handedly against the mighty Indian security forces and also against the misguided Nagas (mercenaries) that were given shelter and made to operate from the Indian Army camps.”
“The NNC groups were in Kohima Transit Peace Camp and of course the other groups using the NSCN nomenclature were everywhere in the Assam Rifles (AR) camps,” the NSCN (IM) said.
It stated that the Government of India created this “third force/party” to defend her interests against the right of the Nagas. It asserted that “any solution based on collaborators will only pave the way for a bigger disaster,” claiming that forces are working “hand in glove to engineer reedited 16 Points Agreement.”
The NSCN (IM) questioned who the civil societies are as pointed out the WC, NNPGs and further asked whether other Naga civil societies in other Naga areas are not a part of the Naga political family.
“They also take the name of church leaders. It would be interesting and grateful if documentary evidence could be produced before the Naga people how church leaders have blessed the Naga solution which sells out the Naga people’s rights,” the NSCN (IM) said.
Further, the NSCN (IM) claimed that during the June 15, 1995 Paris talk with former NSCN (IM) Chairman, late Isak Chishi Swu and General Secretary Th Muivah, the latter had asked then Prime Minister, Narasimha Rao: “Why don’t you talk with Khaplang and NNC?” According to the NSCN (IM), Rao replied: “The issue is not with them, they are in my hand. Why should I talk to the people who have no issue? You have proven, the issue is with you and the people are with you. If we talk, we can resolve the Indo-Naga political problem.”
