Solution based on collaborators will create bigger disaster— NSCN (IM)

Dimapur, April 14 (EMN): National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) on Thursday stated that any solution that is based on ‘collaborators’ would only pave way for ‘a bigger disaster.’

It said that it was well aware of the forces working ‘hand in glove to engineer reedited 16 Points Agreement’.

“Let history be the living witness to testify that the NSCN stood alone at the hardest times of the Naga national struggle. We fought single-handedly against the mighty Indian security forces and also against the misguided Nagas (mercenaries) that were given shelter and made to operate from the Indian Army camps. The NNC groups were in Kohima Transit Peace Camp and of course the other groups using the NSCN nomenclature were everywhere in the Assam Rifles (AR) camps. Was the ceasefire and political dialogue brought by these people?

“Let it be known that these same people are used and created as a third force/party by the Government of India (GoI) to defend her interests against the right of the Nagas,” read a statement issued by MIP of NSCN (IM).

It claimed that even before the negotiation started, ‘they have already surrendered and accepted the Indian Constitution without any hesitation’.

“This is against what our great freedom fighters have died for. Blood, tears and sweat that we the living and past have gone through are not to taste this small morsel at the end. It would simply be a glittering morsel which will turn bitter later to repeat the blunder of the Indo-Naga history,” read the statement.

It said that if the NNPG were keen to go forward for a solution as per the Agreed Position, ‘we wish them to go ahead and let the Naga people witness what they could achieve for the Naga people’.

“But for the NSCN, we shall take the gentleman’s stand to give our word that we cannot be a part of the NNPG solution because of its betrayal to the Naga people’s mandate of the 1929 Simon Commission Memorandum, 1947 Naga Independence Declaration and 1951 Plebiscite. NSCN can never be a party to sell out the Naga’s political nationality and identity by stooping so low.

“ We are never going to surrender our rights so tamely. History will judge and we simply cannot betray the sacrifices of the thousands of martyrs,” it added.