Imphal, June 05: Accusing the NSCN (IM) of indulging in a blame game campaign, the proscribed UNLF today said that instead of acknowledging that the IM group is disintegrating because of its own inherent weaknesses, it is still blaming the 'Meitei's UNLF' for all the problems besetting it.

Referring to the charges levelled against Khaplang of the NSCN (K) following an interview given to an Associate Editor of a State daily in Manipur, in which the IM group said 'Khaplang must tread very carefully lest his name is misused by Meiteis and others against his own people...for too long he has been held captive by the Meitei's UNLF,' UNLF in a statement said that instead of coming up with such baseless charges, the IM group should have pondered over why Khaplang had pointed its dubious stand on Naga sovereignty.

This shows to what level the leaders of the NSCN (IM) have stooped, said UNLF and added that they have been using the term 'dialectics' decoratively but do not practise it.

Raising a number of questions, UNLF asked, 'What is the main cause for the present disintegration of the NSCN (IM), which was once praised by the Indian media as the mother of all insurgencies in the NE and the most powerful group ?, Is it because of mistaken policy priorities in identifying the region's common enemy and Naga fraternal's peoples ?,' 'Was it because of the lack of a correct political ideology and leadership to build a Nation from the stage of tribe by resolving the inherent contradictions among the Naga tribes settled in far stretched mountains?.

The outfit further questioned, 'Or was it because of underestimating the basic unity in interdependence among the various ethnic peoples in the region and working against the course of history of the region,?' 'Or was it because of the wrong effort to make up their weaknesses by blaming the Meiteis and the Assamese ?'.

Instead of asking these questions themselves and introspect how deeply the Naga struggle has suffered, the IM leadership is still pursuing a mirage, contended UNLF.

As the UNLF see it, the present state of affairs within the NSCN (IM) is the combined effect of all the malaises stated earlier, it said.

However the basic and most important factor is the non-recognition of the National contradiction between the NE region and India as the principal contradiction.

It is this principal contradiction which has to be resolved first and foremost, observed UNLF and added that this should be accompanied by accepting the reality that there can be no separate and individual solution for independence except a comprehensive solution.

Citing an example, UNLF said that the Mizo National Front which suffered from such a narrow outlook had to give up their aspirations and sign the Mizo Accord in 1986 by accepting Statehood within the Indian Union. It is this same flawed outlook that led the NSCN (IM) to look for a separate solution to the 'Indo-Naga political problem' instead of providing leadership to fight against the common enemy, which is India, explained the statement.

The search for a separate solution led the IM group into the quagmire of cease fire and peace talk and asking the Government of India to integrate all Naga inhabited areas under one administrative unit called Nagalim, said the outfit.

It is this concept of Nagalim, which has sought to fragment the region along ethnic lines.

The Nagalim plan is to sever the age old relationships between the Meiteis and Assamese in the plains and their counter parts in the hills.

Devoid of a correct basis, the cease fire and peace talk are responsible for the disintegration of the IM group, it asserted.

Besides this the arrogance and violence of Tangkhul leaders against other tribal groups created internal fissures.

This was the root cause for the mass expulsion of Tangkhuls from Nagaland, UNLF claimed and added that it is the wrong policies of the IM leadership that led to the formation of the NSCN (U).

In view of the worsening violent internal situation, Muivah had to shift his headquarters from Hebron to Delhi where is being protected by Indian security forces.

Asserting that the opportunist policies of the NSCN (IM) have grave affected the Naga struggle as well as the liberation struggle in the region, UNLF stated that IM group propagated ethnic politics based on religious affiliations.

The groups, which were supported by the IM group were drawn into peace talks which has resulted in bloody clashes with the anti-peace talk groups.

Under the circumstances, it would be best for the NSCN (IM) to take responsibility for the degeneration of the Naga struggle and the negative trend of tribal politics in Naga society.

Blaming one another will not and cannot provide the correct leadership of the region's liberation struggle, noted UNLF and advised the NSCN (IM) leadership to wake up from their long slumber.

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