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10/12/2004: "April 16 2003"

A Naga International Support Center, Nisc
A human rights organization

Press Release

Break-in at the Office of the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, NPMHR, if not investigated fully, is an affront to the humanity of both India and Nagaland State

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To ensure good government the new Nagaland State Government, aided by the Government of India, should investigate all accusations of corruption, of ill gotten wealth by politicians and of channeling government funds to destabilizing parties

Amsterdam, April 16 2003

Recently Nisc learned that burglars took important and irreplaceable documents from the office of Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, NPMHR. This break-in has serious consequences for this human rights organization and is consequently an insult to the Naga Peoples.
Nisc thus calls on the new Nagaland State Government to ensure that the culprits of this lowly deed are being apprehended, tried in court and the documents returned.
Also the Nagaland State Government should investigate if those culprits acted alone or were assigned by others with interest in the said documents. In the last observation this break-in may have been politically motivated and should then be dealt with accordingly.
Nisc calls on the Nagaland State Government to employ all its resources to investigate, arrest and bring to justice all those involved in this heinous crime.

Following this to Nisc also calls on both the Government of India and the Government of Nagaland to earnestly start eradicating corruption and misuse of Government funds.
Those funds from the Government of India and other donors are made available for the good of all of Nagaland. They are meant for the people. They are not just meant for those that have access to these funds, the happy few.
Nisc states that if the new Nagaland Government is sincere and democratic it should investigate former politicians, including the former chief minister S.C.Jamir, for possible ill gotten wealth, misuse and misdistribution of funds.
Meant for the public of the state but rumored to be used and abused to supply funds to gangs and outfits to create terror and to play power politics, if found to be true on the grounds of investigations, these funds should be returned and the offenders prosecuted.

The Government of India and the Government of Nagaland State would then truly show the caliber of the democracy they profess to uphold and defend.

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