Dimapur, Sep. 27 (EMN): In a scathing pronouncement, the Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) has declared that “the Naga freedom fighter (sic) are not fighting for sovereign (sic), but fighting for money.”
The council issued a press statement on Wednesday informing of issues that were discussed during what it stated was ‘a joint-coordination’ held on September 26 last at Dimapur. Representatives of Naga women hoho Dimapur, Dimapur district citizen forum (sic) and leaders of tribe organisations – who attended the meeting – resolved ‘in one voice’ to condemn the ‘attempt on the life’ of Naga businessman, L Doulo and a Naga family by “non-Naga (sic) at Chumukedima.”
It stated that there is no ‘justification’ to any kind of killing ‘because there is no killing that makes sense in this civilized world.’ it also asked the law-enforcing agencies ‘to deal promptly and to register criminal cases against any such group/ individual making demands, which are accompanied by fear, threat, intimidation.’
'Hot-bed of terrorism'
It also stated that Nagaland is ‘very vulnerable to the influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh’. “...with the increased threat from the ISI in the country and in the absence of co-ordinated policy and approach in handling illegal migrants, the Northeast can become a hot bed for terrorism in the country affecting not just the people of the region but the entire country.”
For strict implementation of the ILP restrictions, the NCD suggested that the state government should frame guidelines “from time to time that inner-line is required to be obtained by non-indigenous person for entry in the state of Nagaland.”
‘Lessons from Assam’
“The Naga should listen gently to the signals from Assam, (and) Tripura. The state of Assam and (sic) has also contributed significantly in causing serious internal disturbances in the shape of insurgency of alarming proportion making the life of the people of Assam wholly insecure and the panic generated thereby has created a fear psychosis.
“The impact is such that it not only affect the state of Assam but it also affect its sisters state like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland etc. as the route to the said places passes through the state of Assam. The unabated influx of illegal migrants of Bangladesh into Assam, Nagaland has led to a perceptible change in the demographic pattern of the state and has reduced the Assamese/Naga people to a minority in our own state sooner or later,” it stated.
The NCD has also lauded New Delhi for inviting the ‘working committee’ representing 6 Naga political groups to formal negotiations. The meeting resolved to constitute an action committee "to deal (with) the life attempt on (sic) L Doulo, proprietor (of) M/s Kuda Could storage by NSCN-K (members) and illegal migrant (sic) issue."
