Yung Aung accused of indulging in criminal activities

Dimapur, Aug. 2 (EMN): The newly breakaway Nyemlang Konyak faction of the NSCN (K) has accused its former president Yung Aung of trying to become a drug lord of an illicit drug empire.

Making a scathing attack on the credibility of Yung Aung, a statement issued by MIP in-charge Nikato Pilot Sumi on Sunday stated that the very utterance Yung Aung's name was synonymous and ‘conjures the abhorrent picture of a drug addict and a wannabe drug lord in almost all minds in the Eastern parts of Nagaland.’

To substantiate its claim, it stated that in the year 2010 Yung Aung along with one Naga and three outsiders came up with the proposal to bring a machine for manufacturing bullets before its leader SS Khaplang. It added that the proposal presented was in fact a sinister cover and a ploy for bringing in distillers and equipments needed for cooking illicit drugs.

It claimed that he never had any real intention of manufacturing bullets but masked it as cover for setting up an illicit drug manufacturing facility to fulfil his devious desire of becoming a drug lord.

“With his partners in crime, the facility was set operational and began producing illegal drugs but by divine intervention, his nefarious plans came crushing down and shattered when the profit sharing deal among his partners in crime went astray resulting in the murder of one of his partners in Delhi,” the statement read.

It added that all the attempts to cover up his crimes by destroying the illegal drug facility were discovered by late SS Khaplang, who took immediate action against him by forcibly discharging him from national service in order to save the Naga movement from being nearly tainted by his illicit drug based business.

“Being caught red handed, he pleaded guilty and sought forgiveness and constantly appealed to our leader late SS Khaplang to forgive him as he was willing to mend his criminal ways and promised never to return back to his wayward ways,” the statement added.

It has also accused Yung Aung of murdering late SS Khaplang by poisoning him.

“As he was a close aide of our leader SS Khaplang, this devious plan was hatched and carried out by poisoning our leader late SS Khaplang who unwittingly and with a trusting heart took the poison as medicine which ultimately resulted in his sudden death at a time when his health was robust for his age,” it claimed adding the ‘secret of the murder was brought to light by his close associates.’

Yung Aung was also accused of procuring all equipments for manufacturing illicit drugs located in the forested area along the forcefully drawn boundary line in the vicinity of Hashik and Chopkolangoi on the east and the Warap area to the west after becoming the president. It has welcomed anyone to independently verify from the villagers of the above mentioned areas about the drug facility in nearby forested area by inquiring whether any equipments such as distillers were brought into the above mentioned area from the Indian occupied areas and also whether generators were brought into the area from Burmese side.

It has further advised Yung Aung to gracefully desist from maligning the Naga image, while it also urged the NSCN (IM) to distance themselves as far as possible from him ‘least they too be dragged down into the abyss of criminality.’