DIMAPUR, April 18: The NSCN-IM said recently that the travel restrictions imposed on Neingulo Krome, Secretary General of the Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), by the Indian immigration authorities has once again exposed India’s suppressive and oppressive nature targeting the Naga indigenous peoples from going outside India to interact with the other indigenous peoples of Asia. “This is the harsh reality the Nagas are made to go through time and again as the government authority continues violating their human rights.
No doubt, the Government of India is desperately trying to drive the Nagas to the point to stop them from rightfully propagating themselves as a distinct people with their own historical and political identity”, the NSCN-IM said in a statement.
The irony is, according to the NSCN-IM, India has been caught standing on the wrong side of democracy where its claims as the largest democracy is falling apart when measured by the democratic principles to give equal treatment to the citizens, including the indigenous peoples. “India today is, thus, no longer the world’s largest democracy”, it added.
The NSCN-IM also said the question that has hit the political consciousness of the Nagas, why
India is getting so panic of letting the world knows about the historic August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement, signed between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim(NSCN-IM). This agreement had been uploaded in “world social media platforms” as desired by the Government of India, after giving the
agreement a high political profile that the world should know from correct perspective, it also stated.
The NSCN-IM then said India must stop going too focused on playing faults with the political issue of the Naga indigenous peoples by standing as a roadblock to
Naga’s right to self-determination, dignity and cultural identity that broadly defines the historical and political rights of the Nagas. “For all purpose of establishing meaningful socio-political peace, not only for
the Nagas, but for the entire northeast, India should stop the wildest dream of turning the clock back on the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015”, it added.
National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) then said it stands in solidarity with Neingulo Krome and expressed its indignation against the Government of
India for targeting Neingulo Krome, whose name is synonymous with the voice of the Naga people’s fight for human rights that concerns the historical and political rights of the Nagas. (NNN)
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