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11/11/2008: "The face of India's insincerity:Press statement V.S. ATEM Emissary to the Collective Leadership. NSCN"

Press statement
Nov.11 2008
The face of India's insincerity:

10 years of political talks without finding a solution is not something to be comforted in any sense of the term but to question India's sincerity in making a meaning of Indo-Naga ceasefire. This delayed solution or delaying tactics is done deliberately under one pretext or the other. But the world is watching the development and laughing at the way India handled the Indo-Naga issue. The deception of highest order is still a practice by India behind the Indo-Naga political talks, not willing to adhere to the spirit after the signing
of the Indo-Naga ceasefire. It may be pointed out there are about 100 NSCN members killed by the Indian Armed forces. Arms were also seized at random or on flimsy ground. Even NSCN officials who are involved in the peace process were also arrested or harassed for reasons not sanctioned under the present political process.
The pre-determined game plan of India against the NSCN is also witnessed but in a demeaning manner. Ever since NSCN took control ofthe Naga movement India has been supporting factional groups and harboring the leaders using all inconceivable means. Transportation of arms of the K-group is done in an organized manner under the tacit
support of the intelligences agencies. Numerous evidences are available to support these charges against India. Not finding that things are not destructive enough to wreck the NSCN, the intelligence hands played the communal card with great precision.
They incited one Naga tribe against another. "Quit notice" has not come from anywhere but from IB and RAW through Khaplang group. "Excommunication" issue was also generated by these agencies but executed in the name of Sumi Hoho. Going beyond and knowing no limit to damage the Naga's socio-political stability these two notorious
intelligence agencies are pocking its nose in the Church related issue to throw spanner in the works of the Church bodies on factional line.
There are instances which really put to test the NSCN's nerve. The most claring case is the stationing of all the declared terrorist groups in the India backed Khaplang Camp at Khehoi. These are the different face of India on the issue of Indo-Naga political peace
process and its much hyped voice against terrorism.
The way India handled the Kashmir issue also reflects similar face that speaks of India's insincerity and duplicity. Ever since the Election Commission of India announced Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir the unrest that followed cannot be treated as an isolated case of the law and order. It is rather a spontaneous reaction of the Kashmir people against the Indian imposed election. Because in the eye of the Kashmir people this is a serious dilution of Kashmir issue, and they have every moral authority to call for the boycott of the polls scheduled for the state. Significantly, they have been carrying on a democratic poll boycott campaign in Srinagar and the Election Commission has also signaled that voting in elections was as much a democratic right of the people as the right
not to vote.
Ironically, the government of India have come down with heavy hands against the pro-independence Kashmir leaders and arrested more than 100, for giving a call for boycott of assembly elections. Some of the Senior Leaders arrested are Mahammad Yasin Malik, Chairman, Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, Maulana Showkat, Jamaat Al Aadees,
Shabir Ahmed Shah, President Democratic Freedom Party, Naim Khan,
President, National Front, Ashraf Sarahi, General Secretary, Hurriyat (Geelani), Dr. Hubbi, Vice President, People's Party (Ghani Lone's party), Somji, Muslim Conference and Ayeshe Indrabi, women's organization.
In total violation of democratic spirit these leaders are detained in different jails in Jammu. Yasin Malik was arrested under the Public Safety Act, and slapped with various charges including "inciting Youth against army during the Safre-Azadi" and "going on hunger strike (following Gandhain methods)"
It is terrifying to observe that the independence movement in Jammu & Kashmir has been countered with "deceit and betrayal". All the parties, JKLF and Hurriyat support the peace process but have the common demand that Kashmiri people must be included in the talks on the future of the Kashmiris and the dispute cannot be settled between India and Pakistan alone. They are also raising objection to the inclusion of political parties in the peace process, particularly those parties that do not even acknowledge the political status of Kashmir as a disputed territory.
As part of his peaceful campaign, Yasin of JKLF has declared ceasefire since 1994 and has been mobilizing from village to village getting signatures in support of Kashmir independence movement that must be decided by the Kashmir people. Mobilizing from village to village getting signatures in support of Kashmir

GEN.(Retd) V.S. ATEM
Emissary to the Collective Leadership.
NSCN