DIMAPUR, MAY 20 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) has yet again voiced its opposition to the Government of India “hobnobbing” with former Governor and Chief Minister, Dr SC Jamir in regard to the Naga issue, and stated that a “wrong approach will bring no solution.”
A press release from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) stated that the “bloodshed and killings that followed after the 16 Point Agreement is a matter of historical record.” “All the discords and factional clashes are rooted in this anti-Naga divisive agreement with Jamir as one of the architects and the only survivor architect today,” the NSCN (IM) said.
“The very person who has vouched strongly to defend the interests of India rather than Naga people’s political interest has no moral authority to speak for the Naga political rights as he doesn’t represent the Naga political interest anymore. This also goes against the essence of Indo-Naga political talks,” the NSCN (IM) stated.
It claimed that the NSCN (IM) leaders came back from abroad on the invitation of the Government of India for political talks after the GoI “pointed out that the 16 Point Agreement was just a futile exercise except to generate bloodshed and wars between India and Nagas and need to be corrected by another agreement.” It noted that the 16 Point Agreement covers only 16000 sq kms leaving out the rest of the Naga areas covering more than 100,000 sq km.
It further said that in 1998 “when the Naga people cried for Naga solution and not election, the Congress in Nagaland under SC Jamir went against the will of the people and put themselves in Nagaland Assembly without the mandate of the Naga people.” It accused Jamir of having “no respect for the God’s given rights to the Naga people and no matter how loud he speaks on Naga solution with a handful of people by his side, that doesn’t represents the voice of the Nagas.”
It said that the Government of India must choose to either choose to go with the “condemned past agreements” or to go with the Framework Agreement.
The NSCN (IM) also put on record that it is not opposed to an early solution but stated that it must be honorable and acceptable. “We understand the pressing situation where people are over burdened with multiple factions and taxations and which can only see the end once early Naga solution materializes,” it said.
It said that these factions “are not created by Nagas themselves,” but “it was the Government of India who created it in order to burden the Naga public with the sinister design to pull down the Naga nationalism.”
The NSCN (IM) meanwhile said that the Nagas cannot afford to make another mistake in accepting a settlement which does not guarantee secured future of the Naga people as well as complete eradication of taxes in the name of Naga political struggle.
