Source: The Sangai Express
Dimapur, January 14, 2012:
The NSCN-IM said today the itinerary of Muivah and Swu to Zunhebuto has been deferred on account of certain untenable conditions laid down by the Government of India and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) through its Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CFMG).
One condition of the MHA for the NSCN-IM leaders's tour to Zunheboto is that Muivah and Swu will travel without weapons.
The second condition of the MHA to the NSCN-IM leaders is that personal security guards shall not carry weapons even in concealed manner.
The third condition has been that the number of vehicles not to exceed twenty and the NSCN-IM leaders will not hold any public meeting or press conference "We are extremely shocked by the immature policy of the GOI when the NSCN is holding serious political negotiation to end the more than six decades of conflict.
We seriously question the stand of the government of India (GOI) and the MHA.
The position taken by the MHA has nakedly exposed the true colour of the GOI and a big question on their sincerity in finding an early and honourable political solution,� the NSCN-IM today.
The outfit then condemns in the strongest term "the double standard and provocative decision� of the GOI to prevent the visit of Isak Chishi Swu and Th.Muivah to Zunhebuto.
The NSCN-IM said it considers this a policy of dividing the Nagas and deliberately excluding the Naga people from the efforts to arrive at a peaceful political solution.
"Lasting political solution can be arrived at only through genuine democratic process of involving the people.
Therefore, we question the deliberate strategy of the GOI to exclude the Naga people from the peace process and that certainly will have grave ramifications,� the NSCN-IM stated while adding, "Failing to understand and value the steps taken by the Nagas to seek peaceful political solution to the decades old political conflict, we observe, is a serious political bankruptcy within the Indian leadership".
The NSCN-IM then thanks the Sumi people including the Sumi Hoho, student communities and Church fraternity for their earnest effort to welcome the 'collective leadership,' Chairman Isak Chishi Swu and General Secretary, Th.Muivah and their entourage.
"We learnt that you have given your utmost efforts", it concluded.