Taking strong exception against the Supreme Court dismissal criminal charges against the Indian Army Officials in the killing of Naga civilians in Mon district, Nagaland, the Joint Council meeting of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim(NSCN) held today, October 1 has condemned the verdict

In the strongest term. In a press release issued by the Ministry of Information and Publicity, it has termed the decision as a ‘blatant violation of human rights and against the spirit of right to life and liberty’.

“Certainly, the Supreme Court of India found itself helpless to go against the notorious Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that continues to victimize the Nagas, even after the 1997 ceasefire to process the Indo-Naga political solution. Ironically, Nagas abhors AFSPA because it is incompatible to the spirit of the Government of India seeking Naga political solution. Nagas would not surrender tamely but fight for justice,” stated the NSCN-IM.

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The Joint Council Meeting also passed resolution against the controversial RIIN that violates the very meaning of indigenous peoples in the context of God-given Naga nation. “It dilutes the Naga meaning of indigenous as RIIN comes with divisive venom to divide the Nagas, as instigated by the forces against the Naga nation. Naga as indigenous peoples have no class and no boundary. Nagas are one and Nagas are indigenous wherever they in their God-given land, Nagalim. Therefore, the present form of RIIN classification of indigenous based on artificial state boundary not acceptable to the Naga people, come what may we shall resist!,” it asserted.

Another resolution adopted in the meeting was to resist the border fencing along the Indo-Myanmar international border and the scrapping of the

Free Movement Regime (FMR). “This also violates the spirit of Indo-Naga political talks to find peaceful Naga political solution. NSCN is against the scrapping of FMR and therefore shall not tolerate border fencing and we shall do whatever is deem fit to stop such aggression against the existence of Naga brotherhood as a nation,” expressed the group.