The stories of Tirap and Changlang districts in Arunachal Pradesh have never been pleasant. And those are the days when K-groups along with Assam’s ULFA and Manipur’s UNLF used the local people of these two districts in the most inhuman manner. They are in many ways given subhuman treatment. Atrocities are daily affairs. The villagers of Longphony, Borduria, Kaimi, Ozokho, Panituria, Panchaw, Khokla, Makto and Kothung villages are the villages that experienced the severest trial of humiliation and insult at the hands of these forces who claimed to be people’s revolutionary groups. But their presences in the area were a terrible torment.
Any show of resistance by the villagers was responded with instant killing. Mention may be made of the killing of Homrit Matey of New Panituria village, Meywang of Panituria village, Azing Wangham, chief of Panchaw village, lemwang Wangsu, chief of Khokla village, Sevok Atoa, Chief of Maktu village, Kina Wate,GB of Kothung village, Phawang Wangham, chief of Langphony village, Phawang Laytey of Borduria village (public leader), Wangkhon Lawang of Borduria, Malung Donglak of Kaimi village and Wangjo Hosai of Kaimi village. The list goes on. Beside, many children were also killed.
One PWD Assistant Engineer from Pasighat was killed by these K-group led marauders at Rongping village. Rape also took place in Chas village. The ULFA and ULFA also used the Tirap for their passage to the Myanmar border. The villages are forcibly used as laborers. The cries of the village authorities to security forces evoked no response, and the social crime of disgrace and suppression continued with impurity. A time comes when the people of Tirap and Changlang approached NSCN to come to their rescue. Naga Army of NSCN does not take time to study the plight of the people, and action was launched swiftly to throw out the anti-social groups from the area.
There was respite for more than ten years. Developmental activities also started. And there was cordial atmosphere in the area. Coming under the heat of army pressure in their home bases, the ULFAand UNLF are finding the going too tough to operate in Assam and Manipur. But for the K-group this change of security threat to ULFA and UNLF comes as a blessing in order to counterweight the NSCN in Arunachal Pradesh. For the villagers it is the return of terrorism, and the picture of back to terrorist acts is already seen in plenty. Enigmatically, the security forces are sitting pretty doing nothing to stand by the side of the villagers. They are rather found to be working in collaboration with K-group and its partner groups. The atrocities on the villagers are committed daily, but the Assam Rifles and CRPF are nowhere to be seen. In the Lapnam village the K-group and terrorist groups attempted to rape a woman on 18th March but saved by the public. On 26th March the CRPF and group of K-group met in Tisa when they came in two vehicles each. Virtually, these groups were given free hand to commit crime of any nature like looting, molestation of women, and torture of innocent public who show any sign of resistance. Houses were intruded and valuables were taken away at gun point. When the appeals to the Assam Rifles, CRPF and Dogra Regiment were not responded the people of Lapnam village come running to NSCN. And for the NSCN, there was no running away but to stand by the victims of terrorism.
The ground reality in these areas shows that the CRPF and Assam Rifles are using the enforcement of Armed Forces Special Power Act to initiate state sponsor terrorism. Instead of using this AFSPA against, the very forces creating mayhem in the areas, the security forces are turning against NSCN. What a mockery of security! But this speaks volumes of CRPF and AR working with the terrorist gang and just for the pleasure of running down the NSCN. More than anything else, the hidden agenda of signing ceasefire between GoI and K-group is coming to be surface with all these passing events. And the agenda is to finish the NSCN by using forces at the disposal of the K-group. It is to be observed that this K-group is operated by confused lot of people without any political thinking applicable to the common interest of the people. Many times they speak of Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front (IBRF) and the next day they started agenda of “Nagaland” only.
They will say their interest covers all Naga areas, but they showed abhorrence for anything Nagalim. And this is the exact teaching of IB, RAW and MI. the willing stooges of the divisive policy of GoI against NSCN. What else? Ceasefire between GoI and K-group is only facilitating creating more trouble spots for NSCN. These are indications that confused lot of people are writing for the K-group, and the writing on 27th March in Morung Express and Nagaland Post points towards this fact. But the ground situation of the past and the present remains unchanged. And the public’s discretionary power of judgment should not be faulted. No group escape public scrutiny of its activities and the truth must be shown and faults admitted with all humility.
Issued by:
MIP/GPRN