Dimapur, March 4 (MExN): Responding to the NSCN (IM)’s press statement on February 22 last which stated that “The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) is aware of the presence of N Kitovi Zhimomi, convener of Naga National Political Group...” the WC, NNPGs said, “the statement suggests a mindset of a debauched leadership that has sunk into its lowest ebb, both ideologically and intellectually.”
WC, NNPGs through its Media Cell on Friday said that in the past decade and a half, numerous reconciliation, unity and forgiveness meetings were convened and declarations signed among Naga Political leaders and groups before Almighty God, through fasting and prayer, assisted the Church, FNR, Peace Mediators.
“At this point, inventing atrocious accusations and presumptions about past and present leaders is an insult to Naga people's intelligence,” WC said.
Pointing fingers at WC Convener, N Kitovi Zhimomi of colluding with Indian Army is simply a “figment of imagination,” it stated. The WC refuted both allegations that Kitovi received hundred and four crore from then Chief Minister Dr SC Jamir and that Jamir supplied hundreds of arms and ammunition to NSCN (K).
The WC also stated that ‘till date Th Muivah is the only leader to publicly admit that Naga sovereignty and integrity is not possible at a present time.’ “He declared it on the dais of FNR organised Naga consultative meet at Agri expo ground in Dimapur on February 29, 2012. Three years later he signed the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015, inking conclusion of the talks,” it stated.
On the Indo-Naga political conflict, the WC expressed ‘shock’ that it “was reduced to a mere six decades, admitting to have understood the intricacies of the Indian system.” It said, “The questions arise, who mandated Th Muivah to say that the Indo-Naga political conflict was 60 years? What of memorandum to British Statutory Commission of January 10, 1929 and Naga plebiscite of May 16, 1951? Under whose authority did they forfeit the two cornerstones of Naga sovereignty and integration to the Government of India?”
“At a crucial time, the WC, NNPGs, after open consultations with Naga Tribes, traditional institutions and guardians, signed an Agreed Position in New Delhi on November 17, 2017. The content of this agreement reaffirmed the legitimacy of 1951 Naga Plebiscite,” it asserted.
It stated that since 1997, under the shadow of ceasefire and peace talks with the Government of India, NSCN (IM) leadership has involved neck deep in the Indian constitutional exercise, as in current Manipur elections, where emotive matters like Naga integration, Naga flag or Naga constitution lay buried deep in Indian election frenzy. “There is clear moral and political degeneration,” the WC stated.
The WC stated that ‘NSCN (IM) has literally exhausted all its weapons on Dr SC Jamir for the many initiatives, evil or noble, in the political and social life of the Nagas.’ WC added that “The Sixteen Point agreement signed on July 26, 1960, between the Naga People’s Convention (NPC) and the GoI, which declared Nagaland as a sixteenth state within the union of India on December 1, 1963, was without the knowledge of the real players in the conflict. It was akin to ball boys stealing the trophy on the table. Politically, it was a treacherous act and some of the NPC members paid with their lives.”
Stating the ‘NSCN (IM)’s vitriolic, concocted biography on N Kitovi Zhimomi as very uncomfortable yet unavoidable acknowledgement of NNPGs political negotiations with the GoI, more so, awareness of the possible outcome,’ the statement said, “WC Convener’s interview to mainland Indian media, citing a clear practical approach to solve Indo-Naga political issue, seems to have rattled the IM leadership.”
While questioning, ‘Did the Naga people not give them a quarter of a century to complete their secretive peace talks,’ WC said “There is no answer from 1997 till 2022 despite announcing the conclusion of negotiations through FA on August 3, 2015.”
Asserting that “for the sake of political decency in public space,” it said “WC, NNPGs will refer only the facts as recorded by history and therefore, will not indulge in character assassination and smear campaign against any individual leader.” It also added that “all merciless killings, sufferings and bitterness perpetrated in Eastern Nagaland and western Nagaland leading to 1988 crisis and in the 1990s, driven by extreme communist tenets, all in the name of Naga freedom and liberty, are chronicled minutely for posterity.”
“WC, NNPGs will refrain from opening personal pages of history that demean Naga polity,” the WC stated.
