NSCN (IM) breaks silence, trains gun on 'unholy nexus'

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Feb 11 : Breaking its silence on the Litan conflagration, the NSCN (IM) has asserted that the burning of houses at Litan was a symbol of aggression against the Naga Nation while accusing the Kuki militants and Indian security forces of engaging in 'scorched-earth tactics'.
In a statement issued to the media today, the NSCN (IM) said that nothing could be further from the truth than the false stories presented by the Kuki frontal bodies on the Litan issue and added that the "complicity" of the security forces is simply appalling.
"What began as a result of Kuki drunkards beating up one Tangkhul youth was used as a pretext by the Kuki militants to collude with the security forces to target Tangkhul houses", the NSCN (IM) alleged.
The outfit further alleged that security forces were blatantly seen joining the Kuki militants with few of them using masks to hide their faces.
The NSCN (IM) said that everything more than indicated that the Kuki militants enjoyed the patronage of the security forces with the ‘green signal from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.’
“It was, therefore, a premeditated arson committed by the Kuki militants against the Tangkhul Nagas,” the NSCN-(IM) further alleged.
Accusing the Kuki organisations of playing the victim card, the outfit said they even dragged in the name of the NSCN (IM) of abetting the Tangkhuls in burning the houses of the Kukis. This is nothing but plain lies, added the outfit.
“The so-called World Kuki-Zo Intellectual Council (WKZIC) even has the audacity to write to the Prime Minister of India playing the victim card," charged the outfit.
The truth is the Indian security forces colluded with the Kuki militants and targeted the Tangkhul community and burnt down their houses at Litan, alleged the NSCN (IM) and added that this is a grave violation of human rights.
In the face of this "brute force of aggression on Litan Tangkhuls, the die has been cast, forcing the NSCN to put on record that the Litan issue is a symbol of aggression against the Naga Nation using unruly Kuki militants as the frontal body of the Government of India against the political rights of the Nagas," charged the NSCN (IM).  “We will stand the ground come what may to defend the land of the God-given Naga Nation” it added.