NISC wants 'NSCN-IM to break silence'
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Pamreiso Shimray

Ukhrul, September 20 2013 : The sensational murder of Jonathan Kashung, a frontrunner for the post of president in the Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) elections, has come under serious criticism of Naga International Support Centre (NISC) .

In a release available in social media on Friday, NISC expressed it ''vehemently condemns the perpetrators and those who ordered them to kill Jonathan Kashung", and questioned, "Who are they to decide on the life of others?'' .

NISC, a human rights organisation based in Amsterdam, was very critical of the murder while declaring that ''Jonathan is dead, brutally murdered' .

The rights group is also appalled by the incident that happened in Christian community.

''Nagas are predominantly Christian; Nagas knows the Ten Commandments by heart, yet like it has become the fact of life murder is committed on a regular basis,'' it claimed.

The statement quoted a Biblical reference, ''Thou shall not kill'' and added that it also applies to ''those who claim to represent peoples of Naga nation' .

The rights group iterated that "In a just society no stone will be left unturned to hunt the perpetrators down and so to bring them to justice.

Then how just is this emerging Naga society if factions don't stop killing their own (brethren)?" .

NISC also said "In a divided Naga nation, Jonathan Kashung, a candidate for the position president of the Tangkhul Naga Long, one among the many Naga organizations making up the Naga civil society, was abducted and found murdered on the outskirts of Ukhrul�on Wednesday" .

Further, it stated "�if the person has done wrong he should be brought before a public Naga customary court to do him justice..." .

In the prevailing situation, the NISC asserted "silence is golden but not in this case.

This is a severe case of injustice and as the family points to the NSCN-IM as the party responsible for and accountable to this murder, the Naga International Support Centre awaits for the NSCN-IM to break the silence�wants the NSCN-IM to come out with a statement of either denying it has had a hand in this execution or explaining on what basis it came to the decision to murder this fellow Naga" .

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