KOHIMA: In what may be called a truce between good and evil, the NSCN (K) released a press note that it will maintain its unilateral withdrawal from the Indo-Naga ceasefire. It urged the country’s Ministry of home Affairs to re-consider the ceasefire with the outfit.
All of this came about when the MHA officials made claims that the Indian government has no plans to re-consider the ceasefire with the outfit and that counter insurgency operations will still continue against the group.
NSCN (K) Col. Isak Sumi, MIP in the press note asserted that the group is completely prepared to face any upcoming events. In the press note, Isak recalls the years of State-sponsored violence that occurred from the 1950s up to 1990s, stating that those years of torment of branding NSCN (K) as a terrorist group are resurfacing again.
Thereby it only indicates that the Government of India is fully determined to eradicate and wash out Naga rights and aspirations through similar methods which is why the outfit believed that the GOI has implemented promulgated laws such as Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act, Disturbed Area Act, Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), National Security Act in Naga society. The press note stated, “Without any regard or conformity to international human rights norms, Geneva convention on the rights of Indigenous people to self determination.”
The outfit also claims that more than 50 NSCN workers are being tortured and held at various prisons across the country with indefinite bailable terrorist act. Pointing out the human rights violations heaped on the Naga people by Indian Armed Forces, the NSCN (K) maintained that due to complete press/media censorship, the world was never made to know of these incidents.
Lastly, the press note stated that the identity and existence of the Naga people are under threat and it urged every Naga in the region to rise and fight for their rights and to resist restraining laws. It further made stements encouraging all Naga people to surpass the present forced territorial and administrative divisions to conceive and uphold Naga nationality that envisions a united Naga Nation.
It may be noted that NSCN (K) has been banned by the Government of India for five years. The government dismiss all hope for peace talks with the group and it will continue to bring down the outfit to justice.
(TNT News with Inputs from the Internet)
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