Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, January 03 2010:
Much to the anguish of Naga civil organisations particularly to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) a factional killing between two Naga underground groups has cropped up after a peaceful few months period in Nagaland.
According to the reports, one NNC/FGN cadre has been killed by cadres of NSCN-IM in Kohima district last night.
Reacting to the development the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) said tonight, "What has transpired the killing of the FGN cadre on the night of January 2, 2010, by the NSCN/GPRN is a disheartening news to the Nagas who have committed to reconciliation.
Today, the FNR expresses our unhappiness over the incident.
Let us be reminded of our commitment to "cease all forms of offensive activities in toto." The FNR calls for peaceful 2010" .
According to a report in a local newspaper here, the the FGN cadres were assembling at a village in Kohima district last night preparing for a programme for January 3 when cadres of NSCN-IM appeared and killed one of the cadres of the former group.
Attempt to contact NSCN-IM leaders to confirm the incident proved futile.
However, a senior functionary of the NSCN-IM in Dimapur said that he had been informed by a source of the incident.
Meanwhile, the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) said tonight that it stands by the credo that whoever believes in reconciliation stand with those who suffer the pain of violence, division and the conflict in this broken world so that together it may be overcome.
We can no longer put up with the circumstances in the divided and excluded world, because we have become different.
"The world of the Nagas must never remain as it is.
It is open for its freedom-its unity, because we have taken the journey of common hope of reconciliation.
We hope for the transformation of the present world of the Nagas because we believe in the reconciliation of God and fellow Nagas," the FNR said.
It is worth noting that for sometimes now that factional clashes among the Naga underground organisations have been halted in Naga areas, thanks to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation.
Football matches involving the three Naga underground groups and Naga civil societies had been held several times in Nagaland and abroad.