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Time of India
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
NSCN-IM chairman asks Nagas to stand by historic Framework Agreement
Dimapur: NSCN (IM) chairman Q Tuccu on Friday urged the Nagas to take the pledge once again to stand by the Framework Agreement it signed with the Govt of India on Aug 3, 2015, affirming that the pact was based on the historic declaration of Naga independence and Naga plebiscite. Delivering his speech at the 75th Naga Plebiscite Day celebration at the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) headquarters at Camp Hebron, Tuccu said the historic Framework Agreement was signed cognizant of the unique history of the Nagas, which reveals the truth of the Naga declaration of independence and the Naga plebiscite, reaffirming the sovereign right of the Nagas to be an independent nation. "There's no going back to betray ourselves like falling off the cliff as devilishly planned by the Govt of India. Too many times the Govt of India has played with the Naga issue in the name of agreement after agreement," he said. Tuccu said enough harm has been done to kill the rights of the Nagas by creating many groups to counterweight the NSCN, the only authentic group that has firmly spearheaded the Naga political movement after the 'infamous Shillong Accord'. He said: "We are no novice to the divisive politics planted by the Indian agency." Tuccu accused the Govt of India of scheming a policy to destroy the Framework Agreement by placing it at the level of the Agreed Position of Nov 17, 2017. He said former interlocutor RN Ravi, representing the Govt of India, drafted the Agreed Position and made the working committee of the Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) sign it. According to him, the NNPGS compromised the historical and political rights of the Nagas and agreed to accept the Indian Constitution-based Naga political solution. "Anything that is deceitfully planned against the sanctity of the Framework Agreement is not acceptable to the NSCN," Tuccu said. He reaffirmed that the Naga political solution and the Framework Agreement of Aug 3, 2015, cannot stay apart. Tuccu said any attempt to seek solution diluting the Framework Agreement is unacceptable.
Indian Express
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Its 3 men killed in Assam firefight, NSCN-IM says: Ceasefire breach
The Naga Army, the military wing of NSCN(IM), on Wednesday claimed that three of its members were killed by security forces in Assam's Dima Hasao in a 'premeditated attack' on Tuesday. In a statement, the Naga Army said the incident has 'once again pushed the hard-earned Naga peace process to the brink of collapse'. The Assam police on Tuesday said bodies of three gunmen, suspected to belong to 'some faction of the NSCN', had been recovered after an exchange of gunfire in the N Kubin-Hera Kilo area of Dima Hasao district. According to the police, the office of National Highways Authority of India in Dima Hasao received an extortion letter and security forces received information that armed cadres, who had allegedly issued the letter, were hiding in the area. Security personnel from Assam Police Special Units and Assam Rifles conducted a search operation based on the tip-off. They came across the armed group, which fired on them, prompting retaliatory firing, said the police. In its statement, the Naga Army said one of its cluster camps in Dima Hasao battalion 'was attacked by the combined forces of Indian security force and Assam police'. The group called the incident a 'betrayal' of the ceasefire between the Government of India and the NSCN(IM) declared in 1997. The question on whether the ceasefire extends outside Nagaland is one of contention between the group, the government and other states such as Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur where there are regions with Naga population. 'These unprovoked attacks constitute a reprehensible violation and unilateral abrogation of the ceasefire agreement, a betrayal of diplomatic efforts and deliberate undermining of the ongoing peace initiatives. It is high time the Government of India spell out loud and clear whether there is ceasefire in Naga areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh,' it said.
