Imphal, May 27: Questioning the Indian Government whether Mongal Pandey, Bhagat Singh, SC.Bose etc are being treated as terrorist simply because the British Government outlawed them for waging war against them, GPRN/NSCN today justify their war against the government of India.
In a press statement emailed to Imphal Times, the rebel group said India must retrospect the tyranny her own people suffered for centuries under the foreign rule. All the inhuman laws which the British enforced in order to repress the freedom struggle of Indians only hastened the demise of British rule in India.
The press statement issued by Col. Issak Sumi, MIP NSCN/GPRN further stated that freedom fighter like Bhagat Singh was branded as terrorist by British government and hanged to death for his heroic act of patriotism (Bombing of the Assembly) but he was worshiped as a hero by every Indian and many youths drew inspirations from his sacrifice, took up arms and staunchly fought to expel the British forces from India and another great Indian freedom fighter Subash Chandra Bose remains immortalised and many Indians still refuse to accept his death to this day. The NSCN asked whether the heroic act of Subash Chandra will be accepted or not.
Indian government must understand from her long bitter experience under colonial rule that no amount of force however oppressive and overwhelming can be forceful enough to suppress the genuine human longing for freedom, liberty and justice for too long.
“The same oppressive British laws which oppressed the Indians for centuries nonetheless failing to suppress the Indian freedom struggle must have convinced the Indian leaders of the futility of reinforcing same laws upon the Nagas for more than half a century now. It has yielded nothing else but the senseless victimization of thousands of her young promising Army officers and soldiers, who massacres the Nagas and themselves get massacred at the altar of India’s false pride and ego”, the NSCN statement added.
The NSCN/GPRN claimed not even a single innocent Indian civilian citizen or hurt or sabotage the interest of Indian government has been targeted by the NSCN in any part of the Globe. “There is not a single report of the Nagas damaging the properties, assets and vital installations owned by Indian citizen or the Government of India hitherto”, it further added.
The statement added that the once independent sovereign Nagas had to defend herself against the Armed invasion of her country by marauding hordes of Indian Army aided by black law of the British era, the AFSPA, that give even the NCO of Indian Army the power to shoot on mere suspicion, arrest without warrant, raid without police and administration etc on the Nagas in our own home country.
“Instead of repealing the black inhuman laws of the British era that tormented Indians for centuries under colonial rule, enforcing this on the Nagas in a more systematic and sophisticated manner in an era of democracy and global enlightenment will certainly be highly regretted. India’s determination to experiment neo-colonialism on the Nagas will go down the annals of history as the darkest epoch only to the unmaking of India Union gradually”, the statement added.
