GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NAGALIM
Ministry of Information and Publicity
PRESS STATEMENT
Oking, the 19th January, 2025
“Deceit” has been the dealing of the Government of India against the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) from the day the Indo-Naga political dialogue started in 1997. Significantly, this has become the reason why the Naga political solution remains elusive. The very meaning of deceit is “purposeful falsehood” to mislead the world on Naga political issue and Naga people’s identity. The other meaning of deceit is “cheat”. If Government of India is courageous enough to solve Indo-Naga Political issue, the acts of deceit should have been kept at a distance. When deceit is practice consciously, false impression is created to mislead the world on Naga issue and thus get away with something bad against NSCN to keep NSCN on the wrong side of justice. No wonder, it is an exasperating experience for NSCN to deal with the never ending suppressive and divisive policy, the hallmarks of India’s handling of Naga political issue for the past over 70 years.
Even after NSCN entered into ceasefire with India to pave the way for peaceful political solution, India never stops indulging in giving blows against NSCN below the belt by way of recklessly using the diabolic term “Terrorist outfit”. This is against the spirit of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), dated the 18th November, 2002, Milan, Italy. This MoU signified the conscious decision of the Government of India to discontinue the ban on the NSCN under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Politically speaking, the term “terrorist outfit” is henceforth a misnomer against NSCN.
However, the Government of India failed to act to respect the MoU, and rather, continues to mishandle the case of Kilonser Alemla Jamir, a “Prisoner of War”(POW) as per international law, by treating her unfairly and unjustly by linking her as a hardcore member of the misplaced “terrorist outfit” forcing her to incarcerate in the jail for the past more than four years. This is a pure case bereft of sincerity and understanding from human perspective. No doubt this is to intimidate the Nagas into submission. The irony is, India failed to realize that NSCN can never be browbeaten into submission. This has been the politics in the Naga revolutionary movement for the past 70 years that has confounded the worldly wise and the politically conscious people within India itself.
MIP, NSCN/GPRN