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DIMAPUR, March 4
The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) while strongly condemning the brutal rape of yet another Naga girl by Farid Khan of “Bangladeshi origin” in Dimapur on February 23 has said that time and again Naga civil societies have raised concerns about the danger of harbouring people of Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants (IBIs) in “our own home”, giving them shelter and security.“However, because of our obstinate attitude and relaxed nature such heinous crime is being committed by the IBIs without any hesitation,” the NSF expressed. It then said the recent incident is not just a heinous crime but it is a direct challenge to the entire Naga community and unless we act tough on these people, slowly but surely these people become masters ‘our Nagas in our own’ land.
The NSF then said that in order to see a clean ‘IBI Nagaland’, every Naga individual should first realize the threat pose by the presence of people from Bangladesh. Moreover, government should have strong political will and come out with a strong legislation to seriously and effectively tackle the IBIs menace and government machineries should stringently implement and monitor the system to check the presence of IBIs and their activities, it stated. At the same time, Nagas should immediately stop employing IBIs in any nature of work; we should not harbour them under any circumstances. “Naga people should stop relying on people of Bangladeshi origin; else sooner than later the time will come when Nagas will be fighting with the IBIs for our rights and identity in our indigenous land like other certain States in Northeast region and other parts of India,” the NSF further said.
While demanding that the culprit should not bailed out under any circumstances, the NSF strongly urged upon the district administration and police to award exemplary punishment to the culprit.
NSF to hold rally in Dimapur (City Tower) on Thursday from 9 am
