Dimapur, November 19: While reacting sharply to some charges from the rival NSCN-K that Tangkhuls were the assailants of Kuki Revolutionary Army chief K Hangshing in New Delhi recently, the NSCN-IM has said that it never deviates from the path of respecting the revolutionary standing of each group "on the Northeast ".

However, the Naga outfit said that in the matter of ULFA, the NSCN-IM has its "own standard of dealing and respect.

But at the moment, other than operational ethics that each group should adhere to there is no reason NSCN and ULFA should develop any conflict of interest.

But parroting somebody's interests with vicious intention will only go towards aggravating the atmosphere.

This calls for exercise of maturity of thought and moral conviction lest we make victims of our own making bereft of any morality without which revolutionary movement is hard to survive".

The NSCN-IM said that it was very unbecoming for "another notorious member of Khaplang Group in the person of one Athrong Konyak, Senior Kilonser to have indulged in something bombastic but not realistically interesting for public consumption".

On late Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) chief K Hangshing who was assasinated recently in New Delhi, the NSCN-IM asserted that "notwithstanding the unpleasant records of the conflicts between the Nagas and Kukis, certain section of the Kukis with the dawn of new political wisdom desired that the Nagas and Kukis must work in unity to secure their future political set up.

Late K Hangsing Commander-in-Chief of KRA was one with the revolutionary vision for the Naga-Kuki unity.

But for the forces who are against his visionary zeal, he was assassinated in New Delhi".

The Naga outfit added that it had taken no time in condemning "such act of cowardice".

It further stated that "true to NSCN's friendship with KRA", the NSCN-IM had advised KRA to remain steadfast in its determination to carry on the movement to fulfill K Hangsing's vision.

"In this context of the allegation by Khaplang group who again took the pleasure of using 'Tangkhuls' as assailants of K Hangsing is as unpalatable as any anti-Naga utterance from Khaplang group.

In the message to the NSCN the KRA clarified that KRA will never be carried away emotionally or politically by the Khaplang group's allegation naming 'Tangkhuls' who killed its leader.

They are rather pointing their fingers at KNA and KLA as the main suspects.

They are learnt to be thoroughly investigating the deeper meaning behind the murder", explained the NSCN-IM.

The NSCN-IM also accused the rival faction that to the indignation of the Nagas, who matter for Naga unity and for Naga-Kuki unity "the painful reality" of the NSCN-K had been to have aligned in hurry with "those very groups like Meiteis' UNLF who stands deadly against Naga unity and Naga-Kuki unity".

Terming that development as maddening for the NSCN-IM to watch and to forbear with, the outfit stated that it was because NSCN-IM is concern for the earliest solution of the IndoNaga problems.

"This is the reason why NSCN is compelled to target the Khaplang group as the obstructionist forces working at the behest of anti-Naga groups and controlled by Indian Intelligence Agencies to counterweight the NSCN", said the Isak-Muivah faction.

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