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02/13/2010: "Hunting down ULFA and NDFB is the way to solve conflicts is Assam? A Naga International Support Center, NISC Press Release"

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

Amsterdam, February 13 2010

Hunting down ULFA and NDFB is the way to solve conflicts is Assam?

Though there is no official and/or public policy on how to deal with groups fighting for their rights to self determination, increasingly the local press reports on moves by Government forces to track down and arrest the leaders of the NDFB and ULFA.

Already branded as leaders of anti-talk groups it one does not need imagination to predict their fate when caught. Mocked by the Government of India as well as the State Government of Assam and elsewhere, these leaders are more than willing to talk peace but on the basis of self determination. As the Government of India is a signatory to the covenant of the United Nation which enshrined this right, it is then the Government of India which should initiate these talks. It should not precondition but work together to come to an honorable solution. Why the Government of India refrains from doing and instead resorts to violence against innocent people is beyond comprehension, because when it states that Boros and peoples represented by ULFA are Indians it should protect them, not persecute and oppress them. Driven into a corner it is well known a cat jumps unpredictably.

The Naga International Support Center questions the motivation of Government of India:

- Does the Government of India merely brand ULFA and NDFB to discourage and frustrate their legitimate quest for self determination, to rid their people of landgrabbing, persecution, oppression and even extermination?

Does the Government of India try to convince the Indian People that ULFA and NDFB want war rather than peace?

Does it have the policy of forcing to give up entirely them so they can live happily in the fold of India?

Considering the past with the sacrifices the peoples had to make it is not likely the ULFA or NDFB will oblige. They will not bow down to the Government of India, just like the Nagas will not bow down to any conditioning by India. They seek an honorable solution to the long term conflict, initiated by India by invading their lands, and on the basis of mutual respect, not force.

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