DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): President of the Naga National Council (NNC), General (Retd) Thinoselie M Keyho today stated that “any settlement short of full sovereignty as per the Naga Plebiscite of May 16 1951 shall be singularly most unacceptable, now or ever.” With talks of settlement between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) and NNPGs WC doing rounds, a press release from the NNC President said that the “Naga national stand since inception has all along been for full Naga sovereignty and nothing less, as had been immortalised both in speech and more so in writing.”
“For this noble cause the Nagas had been in active conflict with India for over 70 odd years. Hundreds of thousands had been subjected to tremendous sufferings, massive loss of wealth and property incurred besides substantial number of lives having been sacrificed. Sweat, tears and blood in superfluous quantum have been shed and bled for total sovereignty’s nurture and in her defence,” Keyho stated.
He expressed concern that “at this late hour, if any inconsiderate minds in the form of certain groups of people with vested interests choose to inhumanely trade away the eternal Naga National Rights and the peoples’ immense sufferings and sacrifices in tame surrender; such undertakings can never ever even begin to be considered as honourable and acceptable.”
“In all honesty, such acts would most certainly go down in history as acts of outright abject betrayal of the worst kind and nature,” he said.
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