[Previous entry: "Centre will not intervene in NBSE affiliation case’ Manipur Minister appeals to Naga NGOs to withdraw the campaign Newmai News Network"] [Next entry: "ANALYSIS - Govt seen drifting in talks with northeast rebels By Reuters Sunday August 13 By Biswajyoti Das"]

08/12/2006: "NISC Press Release: Confronted by incessant attacks on its credibility The Naga International Support Center questions the Naga National Council and the NSCN-Khaplang"

Naga International Support Center, NISC www.nagalim.nl
A human rights organization

Press Release

Amsterdam August 11 2006

Confronted by incessant attacks on its credibility The Naga International Support Center questions the Naga National Council and the NSCN-Khaplang

Both the Naga National Council, NNC and the NSCN-Khaplang, NSCN-K, leave no opportunity unused to discredit The Naga International Support Center, NISC, as merely being an extension of the NSCN Isak Muivah. Once and for all NISC stresses it is a human rights organization. It is not a branch office of, or an extension of any Naga Organization, but supports the fundamental rights of all Nagas, especially the right to self determination.

Because their accusations are based on manipulative thinking, not on fact, NISC wonders what the real motivation behind the attacks is and questions both organizations, as they claim to represent of the Naga Peoples, on the credibility of their own stand on the following significant points. NISC asks The NNC.
In your defense you claim the Shillong Accord was not valid and did not need to be denounced or condemned and you may be very well right in that. However following your reasoning in the Accord being not valid, then we ask you to motivate its implementation:
- Why were militia formed with the purpose of disarming the Naga Forces? Don’t you think disarming the Naga Army is an act of surrender?
- Why did these militia arrest, threaten to kill or even kill those Naga Army soldiers who refused to comply with the implementation of the Accord, which according to you was not valid?
-Why did the NNC condone the arrest of its NNC own members who after returning from China after they heard the news of the Shillong Accord when they did not comply with its implementation?
Can the NNC explain the existence of Peace Camps?
Either there was no Accord which stipulated the Nagas would live under the Constitution of India and so there was no peace or, the NNC did comply with the intent of the Accord, disarmed its army and arrested, threatened to kill those who opposed its decisions, even from those who were part of the organization.
Does the NNC feel it is not accountable for an Accord on paper, which can indeed be refuted, but is accountable for the implementation of it?
NISC invites the NNC to conclusively show what actually happened in the aftermath of the, on paper, not so valid Shillong Accord. Who are the responsible leaders, who decided to kill opponents who did not want to surrender and deliver the Nagas to India. How does the NNC motivate its sell out to India?

Lastly, does the NNC stand for a Nagaland in which all Naga Peoples are united and part one sovereign nation and is independent of India?

In 1988 the Khaplang and his force reportedly attacked the camp of NSCN leaders who had come for a meeting with him on accountability of funds and other matters. Many people were killed.
Considering the gravity of this and the published reading of what happened then between the Khaplang and the NSCN of which he was vide president, NISC invites the Khaplang group to furnish their side of the story.
Considering too that Khaplang on a regular basis accuses NISC of being a mere extension of the NSC-IM, NISC questions the K group on their motivation of:

- their bloody departure from the NSCN. As Far as NISC knows Khaplang has never shown an account as to what happened there then on what motivation it was done.

Also, NISC asks

- what is true of the allegations on being furnished with weapons and funds from the Assam rifles the K-group is confronted with? Can the K-group conclusively show it is working for the Nagas. Can the K show conclusively also in what way it differs from the NSCN-IM?
- in order for both the Naga Peoples and the international community to understand, what is the purpose of the NSCN-K. Does it have a policy and objective?

Again, NISC stands for and support the Nagas as a people in their quest to be free and to govern themselves as a nation.
NISC asks both the NNC and the Khaplang group to clearly state what separates them from the NSCN-IM in vision, objective and in clear cut representation that warrants a disruptive to unity stand?
NISC pleads for all to bury the hatchet and come together as one so that a united Nagaland will be able to become the Nation Nagaland.

For more information visit our website www.nagalim.nl and/or get in touch with us through nisc@nagalim.nl