Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, Aug 23:
The United Naga Council (UNC) along with the Naga Women's Union, Manipur (NWUM), All Naga Students Association, Manipur (ANSAM) and the Naga Peoples' Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR-South) have termed the quit notice served on the Tangkhuls in Nagaland by the NSCN-K as a move which is detrimental to Naga unity and said, "the recent emergence of threat culture is totally against the process of Naga unity and is antithetical to the spirit of our common struggle towards our united vision.
"This joint statement is being issued against the background of 'quit notice' served by the NSCN (K) to the Tangkhul community recently through the local media (17th August 2006)', said the statement of UNC, ANSAM, NPMHR and NWUM.
In a statement issued to NNN yesterday the Naga social organisations said that the strategy of selective branding and targeting of a community falls within the larger stratagem of the dominant powers 'cut and clear' tactic to weaken the Naga struggle for self-determination.
"Its astonishing for any Naga struggle group to accuse another as 'terrorist' which similarly falls within the same propaganda wave of the subjugating powers, which endangers the collective peoples struggle, leading towards a self-annihilatory process besides projecting the peoples' movement negatively to the wider international community," explained the statement.
It then said that the Naga public should jointly speak out against promotion of such culture of hatred and intolerance and progressively work together with increasing understanding and goodwill for the fulfillment of our aspiration.
UNC, ANSAM, NPMHR and NWUM appealed to all the Naga political groups to maintain restraint, rationality and courageously work with a "united purpose to usher in healing and lasting peace in our homeland".