The Na­tional So­cial­ist Coun­cil of Na­galim (NSCN) protests the In­dian gov­ern­men­t’s dilly-dal­ly­ing at re­solv­ing the po­lit­i­cal con­flict in Na­ga­land and ac­cuses the In­dian Gov­ern­ment of es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence and com­mu­nal clashes in Ma­nipur, urg­ing in­ter­na­tional in­ter­ven­tion to re­vive the stag­nant Indo-Naga po­lit­i­cal di­a­logue. The World Sikh News brings you the lat­est de­vel­op­ments.

AS VI­O­LENCE IN MA­NIPUR ES­CA­LATES, the Na­tional So­cial­ist Coun­cil of Na­galim (NSCN), a promi­nent Naga in­sur­gent group, ac­cused the In­dian Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing to re­solve a 75-year-old po­lit­i­cal con­flict and in­cit­ing com­mu­nal clashes.

In a press state­ment re­leased by the Gov­ern­ment of the Peo­ples’ Re­pub­lic of Na­galim, the NSCN called at­ten­tion to the on­go­ing cri­sis in Ma­nipur, a state in In­di­a’s North-East, at­tribut­ing it to the Gov­ern­ment of In­di­a’s lack of progress in set­tling the pro­longed Indo-Naga po­lit­i­cal con­flict. The in­sur­gent group has crit­i­cized the Bharatiya Janata Party-led gov­ern­ment in New Delhi for veer­ing from the Au­gust 3, 2015 Frame­work Agree­ment, lead­ing to a “geno­ci­dal pogrom.”

The NSCN al­leged that the In­dian state is em­ploy­ing a well-planned pol­icy to dis­in­te­grate Naga ter­ri­tory by de­rail­ing the po­lit­i­cal ne­go­ti­a­tion with them. “It is a well-planned pol­icy to dis­in­te­grate the Naga ter­ri­tory through every con­ceiv­able de­sign which fits into its pol­icy of de­rail­ing the po­lit­i­cal ne­go­ti­a­tion with the NSCN,” the state­ment reads.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led gov­ern­ment in New Delhi has been veer­ing from the Au­gust 3, 2015 Frame­work Agree­ment, lead­ing to a “geno­ci­dal pogrom.”

The state­ment fur­ther ac­cuses the In­dian state of at­tempt­ing to por­tray it­self as the “Sav­ior” and the de­fend­ers as “cul­prits” and “of­fend­ers.” The NSCN ap­pealed to con­sci­en­tious in­di­vid­u­als, or­ga­ni­za­tions, and the in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity to counter-check and op­pose this pur­ported state-spon­sored com­mu­nal clash, warn­ing that this could lead to a never-end­ing cy­cle of vi­o­lence amongst dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties.

The NSCN also con­demned the BJP-led gov­ern­men­t’s al­leged at­tempts to es­tab­lish a Rashtriya Swayam­se­vak Sangh (RSS)-Hin­dutva to­tal­i­tar­ian state in North-East In­dia through com­mu­nal po­lit­i­cal en­gi­neer­ing.

The re­lease by the Ex­ter­nal Pub­lic­ity Wing and the For­eign Af­fairs De­part­ment of the NSCN/​GPRN said, “We are also closely watch­ing how In­dia and Myan­mar are fo­ment­ing con­flict and mil­i­ta­riza­tion in the Na­gas ar­eas un­der In­dia and Myan­mar, as well as among the other com­mu­ni­ties in In­di­a’s cur­rent North-East, by arm­ing and in­cit­ing one com­mu­nity against the other.”

Ask­ing the in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity to take ur­gent ac­tion, the body has ap­pealed to world pow­ers to con­demn In­di­a’s “di­vide and rule” pol­icy, op­pose such mis­steps and im­pose sanc­tions on the BJP-led gov­ern­ment.

Not ex­pect­ing the gov­ern­ment of In­dia to re­solve the con­flict, NSCN has called for third-party in­ter­na­tional in­ter­ven­tion to re­solve the stag­nant Indo-Naga po­lit­i­cal di­a­logue.

The or­ga­ni­za­tion also de­manded that the In­dian gov­ern­ment must be made ac­count­able for its fail­ure to up­hold the 2015 Frame­work Agree­ment in let­ter and spirit, an agree­ment that was signed and wit­nessed by Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi.

The NSCN lead­er­ship stated, “As the sit­u­a­tion in Ma­nipur con­tin­ues to de­te­ri­o­rate, all eyes are on the In­dian Gov­ern­ment and the in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity to re­spond to these ac­cu­sa­tions and calls to ac­tion. The press­ing need for a res­o­lu­tion to this con­flict has never been clearer, and the world waits with bated breath to see how this deeply in­grained po­lit­i­cal dis­pute will un­fold.”

Not ex­pect­ing the gov­ern­ment of In­dia to re­solve the con­flict, NSCN has called for third-party in­ter­na­tional in­ter­ven­tion to re­solve the stag­nant Indo-Naga po­lit­i­cal di­a­logue.

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