DIMAPUR, AUGUST 23 (MExN): In a hard hitting response to the opposition from various quarters to the quit notice it had issued to the Tangkhul community, the NSCN (K) warned that such reaction was nothing but a ‘clear incitement’ on them to carry on the campaign more vigorously. “As such, we do not bother whether these are incitements, abetments or appeasements. We will do what is necessary”, stated a press communiqué issued by the NSCN (K) MIP.
While affirming what N. Kitovi, NSCN (K) Ato Kilonser had stated, the statement pointed out that the NSCN (K) will not target any innocent persons adding that this was its stand and principle.
It however warned that since the NSCN (IM) had already deputed their intelligence agents to every nook and corner of Nagaland “in the guise of school teachers, nurses, office workers, businessmen and mission workers”, the NSCN (K) would be compelled to search out “such criminals” in Nagaland while stating that the NSCN (K) had been “most reluctantly compelled to take up this measure in order to bring peace in the strife-torn Nagaland engineered by Tangkhuls”.
The NSCN (K) therefore appealed to the Tangkhuls to leave Nagaland “safe and sound before anything bad happens to them, so that they may be no question of mistaken identities, self invited consequences etc in the future”. “Because the intention of the NSCN/GPRN is loud and clear in that there should be no shedding of blood of innocent persons in Naga soil”.
The NSCN (K) has also reacted sharply to the ‘unqualified’ reactions of the NBCC and NSF against the quit notice issued to the Tangkhuls. It reminded that in 1992, a UNC meeting under the Chairmanship of RK Theko, at the behest of the NSCN (IM) adopted a resolution serving quit notice to the Kukis. “The resultant effect was that the I-M terrorists under the covered name of Kuki-Naga clashes, hundred of Kukis including women, children and infants were butchered and hundreds of Kuki villages had been uprooted during the early part of 1990s”.
The NSCN (K) pointed out that during that time, there were no voices of the Churches, human rights groups and no NSF while adding that it wanted to know as to where the so called Naga sympathizers or supporters, especially people from the west were when Nagas were “burning in the fiery furnace of Indian aggression and oppression during the past half of a century and how come today during the ceasefire period that any foreigners should poke their noses in the Naga affairs without knowing who is who and what is what.”
“The NSCN (K) reacts with contempt the write ups of the so called Naga Solidarity Group”, adding that the signatories should undergo psychiatry examination and treatment and apologize to the Naga nationalists.
The NSCN (K) maintained that any domestic or international right group or civil societies supporting the Nagas legitimate cause in its entirety without adopting partisan roles will be appreciated, honoured and respected. “But any partisan role or prejudicial acts will be despised and rejected by the NSCN/GPRN”.
“For God’s sake, don’t add more seeds of discord and divisions among the Nagas by supporting one group and accusing the other”, the NSCN (K) stated and added that the nationalists and anti-nationalists will be known at the end of the struggle. “The sovereign Independent Nagaland is the objective of the NSCN/GPRN, nothing more nothing less”
