EMN
Dimapur, July 19
Naga People’s Movement for Human Right (NPMHR) said the incident at Wuzu village where two young students were killed and another young woman was injured from the indiscriminate firing of Assam Rifles was gruesome, inhuman, and contemptible deserving intervention of the United Nations in the light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
While condemning the coldblooded murder of innocent students, NPMHR has condemned in equal degree the inhuman and anti-life “colonial” policy of the Government of India. It claimed that those murders were no accident but pre-mediated and duly sanctioned by the provisions of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act duly enacted by the people of India through their Parliament.It recalled the incident in 1979 at Bible Hill, Phek town, where two school children namely Chikhoyi (15 years) and Nuhutso (14 years) were mercilessly beaten and tortured by personnel of the 14th Assam Rifles, for speaking to them in English as these children did not know Hindi. It reminded of the “Matikhru Massacre” where the entire male population of Matikhru Village, also not far from Phor and Wuzu villages, were herded together in concentration camp, tortured and beheaded by the Indian Army.
NPMHR has also condemned the cruel act of the AR personnel who shunned all humanly decent regard for the dead by transporting the slain “Nagas” as “hunted games.”
It has also lashed out at the Indian news media, which reportedly went hysterical with excitement to announce 24x7 that Indian soldiers had killed 7 terrorists and 2 civilians in Nagaland while people were grieving over the terror let loose by the personnel of the AR.
It regretted that the Indian media acted without any sense of responsibility or accountability and had not even bothered to check the authenticity of the news source much to the dismay of the Naga people and to their discredit. While on the other hand, the top brass of the Assam Rifles continued to claim that the two students were killed by NSCN (K) cadres who were nowhere in the vicinity at that point in time.
NPMHR has invited the Indian media to come and see and truthfully state who were the real ‘terrorists’ – whether it was the Indian security forces in the persons of the Assam Rifles personnel or the young Naga teenage students as was in the case.
NPMHR further affirmed that ‘recruiting child soldier’ is a very serious offence and violation of children’s human rights and also not at all acceptable by the international community including the Nagas. NPMHR, therefore, has urged to ‘respect and uphold the human rights of all fellow human beings with whom we share equal dignity, and strive for a world where all of us can settle our differences through reasoning and reasons.’
NPMHR further felt that extension or renewal of imposition of the DAA and AFSPA in the Naga homeland was a glaring reminder for the Nagas and the world that India, having invaded and occupied the Naga nation and its territory, adopted for itself to control with brute force and stifle the voice of the Nagas who continue to resist the invasion, occupation and militarization of their nation.
