Reacting to the non-cooperation move by Aghunato public, NSCN (K) MIP in a press note stated that the “public did not just converged by itself and declared non-cooperation to NSCN/GPRN for the latter’s attack on Indian occupational forces”.
MIP said some elements instead of focusing on the unresolved issue– 70 years of Indo-Naga-Myanmar political conflict and the sacrifices made by NSCN for sovereignty, took advantage of the public’s longing for peace and tranquility in the area and “manipulated the emotional situation and architectured the non-cooperation declaration”.
MIP said “security forces in an unprovoked attack gunned down one innocent civilian and injured another civilian at Aghunato Area last year in November 2 in which two NSCN workers were also killed”.
MIP said despite offensive combing operations continuing in the area, the architectures of non-cooperation seemed to have ignored the actual sustained provocative actions of the security forces responsible for NSCN’s retaliation.
It said over a dozen “NSCN workers were arrested, tortured, imprisoned and killed under Zunheboto district by security forces during the last 18 months”. However, MIP said NSCN had been maintaining maximum restraint and avoiding confrontation in the district to ensure public safety.
This, MIP said had emboldened the occupational forces to adopt more aggressive posture in the area.
MIP noted that Aghunato area had been the bastion of Naga struggle and the first Naga’s war of independence, the 1955 Indo-Naga battle was fought at Hoshepu, Aghunato as the people of Aghunato had stood by with the NSCN.
“It shall come to pass and anti-national elements involved in the declaration shall be exposed and defeated,” MIP stated.
Further, NSCN (K) said its army would “resist and encounter the occupational forces throughout Naga inhabited territories as long as the Government of India uses armed forces to suppress the Naga’s struggle for sovereign Independence”.
MIP said atrocities were being committed on innocent Naga civilians under the garb of AFSPA. This itself has demonstrated that Nagas were not Indians, MIP stated.
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