Source: The Imphal Free Press
Kohima, July 27 (PTI):
The NSCN (IM) has refuted media reports that it had asked Nagas to leave Imphal valley in the wake of anti-ceasefire agitations in Manipur and that it was running three relief camps, for the displaced persons in the hill districts of that state.
Describing the reports published in the print media, particularly two Imphal-based dailies, as "concocted stories" purported to malign the image of the NSCN (IM), the underground organization said that the concerned news persons seemed to have abandoned "'reasons and ethics of journalism".
The information and publicity wing of the NSCN-IM in a statement, released here yesterday, held such baseless reports responsible for mass-exodus of Nagas from the Imphal valley when the anti-ceasefire agitation took a violent turn in Manipur.