Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 14:
Reacting to the statement of Isak and Muivah, "We shall confront the force of evil at all cost" which appeared in local dailies of Nagaland on January 12, the Naga National Council has accused the NSCN (IM) for all the bloodshed in Nagaland since 1979. A statement issued by Thomas of NNC asserted that the NSCN (IM) group is the greatest evil force in Nagaland.
The outfit has been indulging in continued killings for the last 26 years quite indifferent to the call of the Naga people to stop such internecine killings.
Observing that it was an ominous sign for the IM group to attack NSCN (K) and kill one of its cadres on January 8 when the arrival of Muivah in Nagaland was announced, it took strong exception to the killing of NSCN (K) cadre Lichumthung Ezung on January 9 by IM cadres.
Thus they welcome Muivah with blood, it noted.
Again, when Isak was fasting and praying for three days his men abducted two Konyak youths Pongjai and Phoba of Chingkao Chengnyu village from Kohima on January 12 and killed them in cold blood on the same day in Kohima, disclosed NNC.
Blaming NSCN (IM) for the blood spilled in Nagaland since 1979 and subsequent destruction of Naga nation, it said that the killings can be stopped only when NSCN (IM) is sincere enough to desist from such heinous crimes and admit that they committed a blunder by forming an organisation to fight against NNC.
Saying that the Nagas have been condemning and fighting against them (NSCN-IM) as they are anti-Christ, anti-Naga and anti-social, NNC called upon the Naga people to check such evil activities perpetrated by NSCN (IM) in Nagaland.