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01/27/2009: "NSCN hails women’s role in defusing stand-off Nagarealm.com"

NSCN hails women’s role in defusing stand-off Nagarealm.com

DIMAPUR, JAN26 [EMN] : The MIP/GPRN has lauded the positive peace initiatives spearheaded by the women organisations led by Tangkhul Women Organisation (TSL) in the wake of a war-like situation created at Shiro by Assam Rifles sending out alarming wrong signals.


The Tangkhul civil societies, particularly the women groups from Hundung, Choithar, Langdang and Nungbi villages including the Ukhrul town sensing the possibility of hard earned ceasefire been put to jeopardy by Assam Rifles formed human chain through-out the night braving the midnight chill with a view to insure that guns don’t boom, a press statement issued by MIP/GPRN stated. It has also welcomed the onus taken by women to defuse the situation and bringing about peace between the NSCN and the AR, it added. Commenting on the peace initiative, the MIP/GPRN has further lauded the under standing of women that, ‘political settlement could be brought only through negotiation and not military confrontation.’

Crediting the women for saving bloody confrontation, the NSCN has flayed the unwarranted confrontationist approach adopted by AR to forcefully evict the cadres. While, clarifying that the NSCN has not been on the wrong, it has expressed angst against the GoI for showing different colors and not doing enough to reign in the AR. ‘The nerve of the NSCN has been put to greatest test, but the culprits will be AR and not the NSCN/GPRN’, it maintained. In a separate release, the National Socialist Women Organization of Nagalim (NSWON) has expressed its gratitude to all Naga Civil Societies, particularly the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, for making a sustained effort to free its chairperson Salem and her assistant Aphy from K-group without any harm.