Dimapur, May 13: The NSCN-IM and the Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio have come under heavy firing from the Sema Naga tribe organisation on Tuesday on the issue of "unification".

While slamming the NSCN-IM and Neiphiu Rio, the Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) on Tuesday stated that the chief minister of Nagaland had denounced and disowned the present peace and unification process.

Neiphiu Rio had purportedly "denounced" and "disowned" the current peace and unification process.

The Sema tribe organisation Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) also accused NSCN-IM leader Thuingaleng Muivah as working hand in glove with the Government of India and its intelligent agencies against the aspirations of the Naga people.

This statement of the Sema or Sumi organisation came as a countering statement to the allegation of the NSCN (I-M) that Sumis along with the "Unification group" were working hand in glove with Government of India and its intelligence agencies.

"In fact, the IM self-styled Boss Muivah (NSCN-IM general secretary) is the one who is working with Indian Government and its agencies against the noble aspirations of the Naga people.

He is being housed at MP's residence at Delhi with full security coverage provided by GOI," alleged the Sumi body.

The Sumi body said the volte-face by the chief minister of Nagaland was shocking because it was his Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government that had been working for peace, reconciliation and unification through his avowed policy of equi-closeness.

"Yet, his sudden backtracking on the current peace and unification process has not only hurt the sentiments of peace-loving Nagas but it has grievously hurt the Naga unification process in its infancy", said the WSH.

The WSH then rued that the Sumis, who had almost single-handedly sheltered and fed the NSCN (I-M) to enable it stand on its own feet all these years, were being condemned by the faction now.

The WSH claimed even NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chishi Swu and some other senior leaders had endorsed the unification process before being "brainwashed" by Muivah.

The NSCN (I-M) had on Monday made it clear that the politics of the Naga National resistance movement was based on the rock of Nagas' right to decide their own future and to leave the legacy of living politics to posterity and therefore, leading and conducting a revolution was no job for unprincipled people.

While dubbing the NSCN Unification as "unprincipled" and an "illegitimate" organization, the NSCN (I-M) said it was ridiculous to expect national independence from traitors and illegitimate organizations and that history never made mention of traitors liberating a people.

Claiming that there is only one "NSCN" and that "NSCN-K" or "NSCN-U" are but the brainchild of the Indian press, the NSCN (I-M) in a press release issued by Convener, Steering Committee, Qhevihe Chishi Swu and kilo kilonser Kedutsu Tsuzu also alleged that the Indian Intelligence had "engineered defection of Azheto and Company through the good offices of Sumi Hoho and Western Sumi Hoho leadership." The NSCN (I-M) further alleged that the Unification group with the objective to strengthen their position, had implicated even the name of Isak Chishi Swu, the president of Government of the People's of Nagalim, by stating that unification move was done in tune with the directive of Mr.Isak.

"Is it logical to say that a man who stages a coup against a president is for the president?" NSCN (I-M) asked and added the unification move was nothing but an attempted coup.

Even the Government of India had termed the NSCN-Unification as an "illegal organization," the NSCN (I-M) said.

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