The NSCN (IM) on Tuesday called upon the international community ‘to uphold and defend international fairness and justice, promote an equal and uniform application of international law and reject double standards’ while opposing the occupation of ‘Nagalim’ by India and Myanmar.

International law, including the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, must be strictly followed. The occupying forces – India and Myanmar – must recognise that all countries, large or small, powerful or weak, rich or poor, are equal members of the international community. The occupying countries must immediately release all Naga Political Prisoners of War, a press statement said.

Citing the example of Alemla Jamir, who was detained by India on December 17, 2019 in New Delhi and later arrested in a terror funding case, NSCN (IM) called out India and Myanmar for framing the conflict as an internal issue and for viewing Nagas as a security threat to their respective countries and labeling them as “insurgents”, “terrorists” or “arrested under terror funding”.

Stating that there were no official or informal treaties between the Naga people and the British during the colonial British Empire’s occupation of the free Naga country, the statement added that Nagas declared independence as the British were about to leave the region.

We are defending our own country against forces that are purely an invasion and illegal occupation by India and Myanmar after the colonial British Empire left the Naga homeland, it said.

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