NSCN (K) has cautioned any legitimate Naga leader, cutting across party affiliations, against conspiring with “colonial forces” to betray the “established age old Naga identity” for temporal electoral based political advantages.
A press release issued by NSCN (K) deputy kilonser MIP, “Col” (Retd.) Isak Sumi, stated that the long standing Naga issue must not be dragged down or equated with the “present corruption riddled electoral politics.”
NSCN (K) said it was appalled that the government of India, instead of allowing the wounds to heal, was “forcing the festering of the old wound” by allowing the NIA to “outlandishly” attack even the Naga Christian Churches of extortion and criminal collaboration.
It stated that the Naga Churches, regardless of earlier desecration of Churches by Indian Army and security forces, in the true spirit of forgiveness, had for decades been ushering in peace and understanding between government of India and Armed Naga political groups and between conflicting Naga political groups without bias or favour.
However, it stated that the NIA in its effort to “scuttle the Indo-Naga political processes” and to completely down trod the Naga cause had gone 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,” stated NSCN (K).
It alleged 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.
Stating that even the chief minister and top Naga bureaucrats of the state were being harassed and arrested with impunity by NIA, the NSCN (K) said “where will the ordinary Naga people turn to for security but to resort to mass revolution and defiance as in the days of yore.”
NSCN (K) cautioned that it cannot remain mute and idle but would resort to “justified acts of vengeance equally against Indian Hindus, Indian public servants or civilians living anywhere including Nagaland”. It asserted 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.
NSCN (K) alleged that NIA was 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.”
It maintained that “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 struggle altogether. “It shall be recorded in the Naga history for posterity to credit even their progenies as traitors,” NSCN (K) stated.