NSCN (IM) celebrates 32nd raising day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 01, 2012::
The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (I-M) yesterday celebrated its 32nd raising day at its council headquarters, Camp Hebron, 35km from Dimapur.
NSCN chairman Isak Chishi Swu today unfurled the Naga flag and reminded the members how the outfit was formed after the Shillong Accord.
NSCN general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah also spoke at the function.
He reminded the members that it was on this day that a correct decision had been taken.
However, he expressed regret that the foundation of the outfit was growing weaker.
Muivah emphasised the need to make things right with God for salvation.
On January 31, 1980, Swu, Thuingaleng Muivah and S.S.Khaplang formed the NSCN after the Naga National Council (NNC) signed the Shillong Accord in 1975 and unconditionally decided to accept the Constitution of India when some of its top leaders and cadres were still in China for training.
After many fratricidal killings among the cadres of the NNC, the trio formed the NSCN at Nokpa in Burma (eastern Nagaland).
However, the NSCN split in 1988 with Swu and Muivah leading one faction and Khaplang the other.
Swu said they had formed the outfit after the failure of the NNC to rise up to the occasion to save the "Naga nation".
He said there was a terrible crisis after the Shillong Accord but God came to their rescue and showed them the way to form the NSCN to spear-head the Naga struggle.
Subsequently, the outfit was able to win support on the home front and at the international level, Swu said.The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, The Hague, recognised the NSCN and other international contacts were also established.
All the brigades and battalions across the Naga-inhabited areas celebrated the raising day.
Swu and Muivah categorically warned their members to abstain from indulging in corruption and accumulating disproportionate assets at the cost of the people's good-will.
They had said the members of the outfit who indulged in corruption had distanced themselves from the people and the main cause of the Nagas.
Currently, the two NSCN leaders are holed up in Camp Hebron after the Centre imposed restrictions on their movements.
The outfit has warned that the Naga peace process was already in peril and said they were ready to face any fallout.