Dimapur, June 10 (EMN): The NSCN (IM) has dismissed the recent attempt to interpret the framework agreement by former chief minister Dr. SC Jamir (in an article titled Nagaland and her political voyage) as “an exercise in irresponsibility.”
Responding to Jamir’s article issued on Monday, the NSCN (IM) said it was “a matter of great indignation that Jamir acted in the manner as if he is privy to the (framework) agreement.”
“As seen from his narrative, Jamir is crafty enough to touch on Indo-Naga political history again and again, but to rock it in the manner that contradicts the actual political process. The historic framework agreement of August 3, 2015 is being handled very cautiously by government of India and NSCN given the fact that it is a very sensitive and vital issue,” it stated.
However, Jamir taking the liberty to give his own interpretation has created confusion in the minds of the Naga people and the world, according to the NSCN (IM). “He talked of factionalism and fragmented organisations in the Naga political movement.
“But, the fact is that he himself is one high profile Naga leader who sponsored factionalism to serve vested interests, particularly to weaken NSCN, the mainstream organisation. When Jamir talked of the present predicament faced by the Nagas, his hands are not innocent. Multiple governments and multiple taxations are all rooted in divisive and diabolic policy, which he executed with derisive pleasure during his hay time as Nagaland chief minister,” read the statement.
According to the NSCN (IM), it was Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, who had “torched the fire of mayhem in Nagalim by sending Indian armed forces in 1954.” His government went to the extent of formulating colonial policy of suppressing the movement of the Nagas through the Nagas, it stated.
“Accordingly, the so-called 16-point agreement was made to sign in the stolen name of the Naga people solely with an eye to uproot the movement of the Nagas on the one hand and divide the Nagas on the other. And that SC Jamir was one of the architects of that agreement. He was groomed and nurtured by the government of India with the one-point agenda of crushing the Naga political movement, no matter how diabolic it may be.”
It is painful, the group stated, to recall the horror of brutality of the Indian armed forces under Nehru and a number of innocent Nagas killed through Jamir’s “bloody policy” targeting NSCN and its support groups and communities.
“However, NSCN has declared its stand that it has forgiven all the past mistakes committed against the people and nation in the name of Jesus. No one should harden his heart against his own people, his own nation and his own children. All Nagas should unite in the declared national line through forgiveness.”
