“What has really caught our eyes was when the names of the revered Naga national leaders AZ Phizo and Th Muivah were used playing tribal card to create destructive storms on tribal lines among the Angamis and the Tangkhuls,” stated the NSCN (IM)
By Imna Longchar, TFM Nagaland Correspondent
While India has resorted to indulge in proxy war against National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN IM) with the well-established nexus between the KNA(B) and PDF with AR (Assam Rifles), the NSCN (IM) on Sunday said that a highly orchestrated social media warfare is being explored by Indian intelligence agency using the tribal card to create fissure within NSCN, desperate to setting on fire the tribal sentiment.
MIP, NSCN (IM) in a press statement said that the modus operandi was to use fictitious Naga names belonging to certain tribes and writing provocative articles which the NSCN (IM) had recently come across an article followed by counter article under the heading “Muivah is a problem, not the solution” followed by counter article “Rendering political education to Zavisituo Angami” wherein fictitious Tangkhul name was used as the author of the article.
“What has really caught our eyes was when the names of the revered Naga national leaders AZ Phizo and Th Muivah were used playing tribal card to create destructive storms on tribal lines among the Angamis and the Tangkhuls,” stated the NSCN (IM).
Stating that these articles were made to go viral on social media platforms, the NSCN(IM) said that the irony was as we could see through the carefully considered social media strategy with the filthiest purposes, the most disgusting kind of propaganda that played with the sanctity of Naga national leaders.
AZ Phizo and Th Muivah have their respective place in the history of Naga political struggle and it was because of their tireless works that the world came to a nation said NSCN (IM) while adding that it was Phizo who led the Nagas from the front and declared Naga Independence and conduct Naga plebiscite to reaffirm the sovereign will of the Naga people to live as an independent sovereign nation.
“Naga people, young and old must appreciate and give due honour and respect to uncle Phizo for what he had done for the Nagas and their righteous cause at the right time. He had dedicated his entire life bearing the unbearable burden living in exile in London till his last breath”, added NSCN (IM).
NSCN (IM) also said that had there been no Phizo who had done so much for the political cause of the Nagas, the political status of the Nagas today would have been a different story today at the same time. It was Th. Muivah, who came into the Naga political scene and had played his role in the Naga political movement with tireless commitment to the political goals laid down by AZ Phizo and worked with dedication, persistence and well-focused.
Also stating that it was under his firebrand revolutionary leadership that the political status of the Naga nation with sovereign rights has been given a new meaning by the government of India after the historic Framework Agreement of the 3rd August 2015, the political significance of the agreement pointed to the recognition of Naga independence declaration on the 14th August 1947 and the Naga plebiscite of 16th May 1951, to reaffirm the Naga independence as the sovereign will of the Naga people.
The MIP, NSCN (IM) further said that Nagas wouldn’t be naïve enough to be carried away by misleading communal divisive propaganda waged by Indian intelligence agency to erode the NSCN.