Dimapur, July 30 (MExN): The Naga National Council, while highlighting various historical instance of what it asserted were violations of the principles of the Naga movement, questioned Eno Keditsu on his contentions.
A statement from the NNC issued by L Palang Khiamniungan while asserting that young Naga people have been misled by the NSCN-IM, forwarded some questions: That if the NNC and the FGN were “finished” in 1975 by signing the Shillong Accord as Keditsu asserted, when then Th. Muivah made AZ Phizo as President of the two organizations on August 16, 1976 and why Muivah upheld the NNC General Secretary office up to January 1, 1980; that if the NNC is a “dead organization” “why are you fighting against the NNC since 1980 and for what reasons.”
The NNC questioned why Th. Muivah “praised” the NNC on January 20, 2005 at Hebron Camp saying “It is the NNC that gave us the leeway, not me or Isak; it was the NNC, it was Phizo and who can deny that the NNC leaders laid the foundation”.
He NNC further asked that “if you said the NSCN men were killed on 27th September, 1980 (and it) was the first event of killing among the Nagas, then who had killed Brig.Ngamleo Konyak in December 1975 in Kachinland? Who burned down Khiamniungan villages and tortured Khiamniungan people in March and April in 1980?”
Asserting that the NNC and the FGN had maintained time and again that the Shillong Accord was rejected by the FGN in the national assembly held at Dihoma Oking in December 1975, it was stated that through it, the stand of the Nagas was made clear. “So also Muivah group always stated that Nagas have rejected the Shillong Accord” it was stated. The NNC also contended that if it was the Shillong Accord as the main factor for the division and killing among the Nagas, why did the NSCN-IM involved “in the Indian stated elections?”
It questioned: “Why did you leaders submit NSCN-IM 30-point competencies proposal to demand an autonomous state/federal relationship with India and why the talk is going on for the integration under the Indian union and not for sovereignty?”
