DIMAPUR, MARCH 4: NSCN/GPRN while leveling allegations on GPRN/NSCN also sought to blame the Assam Rifles for holding combined operations against it. The NSCN/GPRN said their camps in Arunachal Pradesh have been attacked and resulted in deaths of their men during “combined operations” with 18th, 19th and 44th units of the Assam Rifles in a campaign codenamed “Rocket Operation”.
“It is not at all absurd to say that, one of the biggest political blunders on their part (GPRN/NSCN) is to allow these elements to gain impetus and advantages only to serve their diabolic agenda over the Naga peoples,” stated the MIP of the Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim.
“We are against harbouring non-Naga groups because their political agenda is clearly against the Naga people aspiration,” it added. The NSCN/GPRN said “reasoning together has no meeting point if we fail to reason deep down to the truth and realities of the national principle”. It recalled the April 9, 1995 Yangkhao move where GPRN/NSCN and FGN allegedly carried out a joint operation against them and considered the Monyakshu conclave (2010) and recent statements of the GPRN/NSCN a repetition of a similar policy.
However, the NSCN/GPRN asserted that the call of the highest level meeting is to solve “our differences” and regretted the deferment of the meeting using “excuses”.
The NSCN/GPRN said there could be two schools of thought within the GPRN/NSCN, with one section working against reconciliation and one towards it.
“We will never retreat or surrender but firmly stand on our ground for the COR (Covenant of Reconciliation),” the MIP reiterated. It questioned whether bringing the Naga political issue from zero point (of Shillong Accord, 1975) to the “highest level talk” is belittling the Nagas in the eyes of the world.
Clarifying that there was never a “charted of demands” to the Government of India, the MIP said it only made “proposals to retain what belongs to the Nagas.” It claimed that this led to India recognizing the uniqueness of the Naga history.
Meanwhile, the NSCN/GPRN said it will “remain committed” to the reconciliation process based on “unique historical rights of the Nagas” and in the interest of the people.
