Dimapur, Jan. 23: Declaring boycott of the Republic Day celebrations, the NSCN (K) on Monday warned “curious Naga onlookers, civilians, students etc” to “refrain from participating in the upcoming event so as to avoid collateral damage.”
The organization issued a press statement, appended by “Col.” Isak Sumi of the MIP, NSCN/GPRN on Monday stating that the group “shall not be accountable for any eventuality.”
“Curious Naga onlookers, civilians, students etc are cautioned to refrain from participating in the upcoming event so as to avoid collateral damage. NSCN/GPRN shall not be accountable for any eventuality,” the press release stated.
“The NSCN/GPRN boycotts India's Republic day celebration on 26th January all over Naga inhabited areas as part of the people's struggle against India's illegal and forceful colonization of Naga country for three quarter of a century,” the press release asserted. According to the group, the “brutal crackdown on the voice of the Naga people for the last seven decades with sheer military might and violent repressions at the cost of more than half a million precious lives of the Nagas merely cannot be silenced or sentenced to oblivion.”
While the India's armed forces continue to “maraud our country” and the entire nation is “enveloped with abject terror,” the NSCN / GPRN “cannot allow any imposed colonial events to be hosted in the Naga soil,” it asserted.
“Our silence and passivity only emboldens India to relegate the legitimate people's liberation struggle to a mere secessionist movement before the international community.”
Calling upon “every patriotic Naga’ to “have the courage to assert for the just rights and identity that has been inhumanly suppressed for too long,” the NSCN (K) said to ‘let the whole world know’ about “the suffering of the Nagas in the hands of one of the world's largest democracy and expose the sham and hypocrisy of India's democracy tainted and concealed with one of the most excessive human rights violation since her Independence from Britain till today.”
