DIMAPUR, APRIL 23 (MExN): The NSCN Khaplang has stated that “whatever counter-actions” it has so far initiated, has “purely been in response to Kholi-Kitovi criminal offences and purely a corrective law and order measures against the dissidents gang and has nothing to do with Naga political issue”.
“The NSCN/GPRN under His Excellency SS. Khaplang’s leadership would like to make it clear before the Nagas and the world that the ongoing unrest and bloodsheds amongst the Nagas would not cease until and unless Khole-Kitovi gang revoke it’s sworn proclamation to obliterate the NSCN/GPRN as declared by Kitovi during the last FNR’s reconciliation meet on 28 th Feb.2012 in Dimapur”, stated a press note issued by the group’s MIP.
The MIP note quoted what it termed as “Kitovi’s daring ultimatum against Naga national workers/political parties”. It thus read- “We (Khole-Kitovi) shall no longer talk about the issue of Naga sovereignty or integration but shall pursue an alternative arrangement with GOI for the Nagas of Nagaland, therefore whoever opposes this shall not be spared but crushed and wiped out”.
The NSCN Khaplang stated that since it “represents the entire Nagas from across the length and breadth of India and Myanmar occupied Naga country”, it had never “particularised or prioritised any Naga territory over others in terms of struggle and elusive settlement”.
The MIP note added that Mr. Kitovi’s threat was directly aimed at the NSCN (K) and to “sabotage the Naga struggle for sovereign, independent nation under SS. Khaplang’s leadership merely to find favour in the good books of India”.
The NSCN Khaplang went on to state that it “does not regard Khole-Kitovi gang as political party, but a bunch of “renegades and soldiers of fortune” that has been sifted out from the main stream Naga freedom struggle” and that their “materialistic pursuits and inclination, rather open acceptance of enemy’s indoctrination and in-depth collaboration to stamp out the Naga’s struggle has compelled them to preach and act against the NSCN’s uncompromising conviction for sovereignty”.
