Dimapur, April 3 (EMN): NSCN (K) has warned of justified act of vengeance against any Naga leader cutting across party affiliation conspiring with colonial forces to betray the established age-old Naga identity based on temporal political advantage.
“NSCN/GPRN cannot remain mute and idle but resort to justified acts of vengeance equally against Indian Hindus, Indian public servants or civilians living anywhere including Nagaland and NIA must bear the sole responsibility for being the precursor of the despicable communal and sacrilegious acts against peaceful and neutral institutions of faith,” Col (Retd.) Isak Sumi, MIP deputy kilonser, stated in a press release which was made available to media houses.
The statement stated that the long standing Naga issue must not be dragged down or equated with the present corruption riddled electoral politics. It was appalled to witness that instead of allowing the wounds to heal, the GOI had allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to outlandishly attack even the Naga Christian churches of extortion.
Stating that Naga churches, in the true spirit of forgiveness had for decades in the face of all the hazards been ushering peace and understanding between GOI and armed Naga political groups and between conflicting Naga political groups without bias or favour, it however stated that NIA, in its effort to scuttle the Indo- Naga political processes and to completely down trod the Naga cause, went to the extent of making open criminal insinuations against the churches and the church leaders thus bringing back the horrifying memories of the past where raping of mothers and daughters inside the churches and razing down of churches after using them as concentration and torture chamber during 1955-1980’s occurred all over Nagaland.
It stated that the open attack on the church by the same forces in the form of NIA was an attack against the collective conscience and the whole polity and faith of the Nagas and in a state of affairs where even the chief minister and top Naga bureaucrats of the state were being harassed and arrested with impunity by NIA.
In the light of the above stated circumstances, NSCN (K) stated that it would not remain mute and idle but resort to justified acts of vengeance equally against Indian Hindus, Indian public servants or civilians living anywhere including Nagaland. In the same vein it stated that NIA must bear the sole responsibility for being the precursor of the despicable communal and sacrilegious acts against peaceful and neutral institutions of faith.
It stated that NIA is no longer an investigative agency doing its bidding but purely a political conspiracy and a communal force attempting complete subjection of the Nagas taking advantage of the situation.
“The collaborating Nagas using NIA as double edged sword of political vendetta against their adversaries should not have taken advantage of the NIA led communal forces intent to crush the Nagas and NSCN in particular and to annihilate the Naga’s struggle altogether,” it stated adding it shall be recorded in the Naga history for posterity to credit even their progenies as traitors.
Stating that it is a testing time for all the believers in Christ, NSCN (K) has urged all the Nagas to demonstrate resilience and firmly uphold their faith by standing up to evil forces threatening their very belief and existence.
