“Dimasa community in NC Hills also has a bounden responsibility to demonstrate clearly that violent targeting of any particular community in NC Hills will not be tolerated and is not supported even tacitly” the NPMHR said in a statement today. Despite the casualties “at the moment on the side of Zeme Nagas”, the NPMHR said, all neighboring communities particularly the “alleged group community” to work for peace and harmony through inter-community contact and dialogue. They must also be at fullest alert to thwart any inimical forces effort out to inflame the situation.
The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights denounced the ‘xenophobic actions’ carried out allegedly by the DHD (J) on innocent Zeme Naga villagers. The NPMHR said the very nature of the selective killings of nine Zeme Nagas point to a calculated strategy to create fear in the Naga population in the NC Hills.
NPMHR also sought solidarity from all to meet the humanitarian challenge faced by Nagas in Assam following the bloodbath unleashed by Dimasa militants of the DHD (J).
The Nagas are appealed to assist the Zeme community ‘who are in need of our collective solidarity and prayers, to give succor to their injured spirit; destruction of lives and properties by forces out to create hopelessness, fear and insecurity’. “The humanitarian crisis intentionally orchestrated by vested interest wherein more than 500 refugees consisting of aged, women and children are now been temporarily sheltered in the relief camps at Tousem sub divisional headquarters in Tamenglong Manipur, is a matter of serious concern” the NPMHR said. It considered the current machination as diabolic and demanded immediate intervention of NC Hills’ administration and particularly the Chief Minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi, before the situation spirals.
The NPMHR further said that the divisive elements have caused the present tension with the objective to drive out Nagas from their ancestral land; the diabolic elements unleashed terror to serve their devious objective of gaining control over land and resources, the organization said.
The NPMHR wondered whether or not “the current acts of xenophobia have been acted upon at the instances of other higher interests (state-corporate-ethnic) alike the past ethnic cleansing projects which were artificially induce to sow disharmony between communities who have shared harmonious relationship in the past centuries, to take control and deprive them of territories for end interest”.
Zeliangrong Nagas are under attack today as they occupy strategic intersections of Nagas with other ethnic communities towards the subcontinent and on whose territories mega projects such as Tipaimukh Dam, Trans Asian highway and Intangki Reserved Forest are. So, the NPMHR explained, tumultuous envronment are being created by many competing forces to operate to exploit the spoils.