NSCN (K) through its MIP has issued a clarification, refuting the statement made by the Army on the September 27 incident, which was published in an Assam based news daily.
NSCN (K) MIP through an email statement, pointed out that the Eastern Army command had “no idea that Langkhu village was deep inside Myanmar Naga area situated around 15 Kms away from the international boundary where the encounter took place before dawn on 27 September between Army’s para commandos and elite unit of NSCN/GPRN.”
It further said that the India Army (IA) Hq was completely ignorant about the ground realities and the apparent disconnect between the Command Hq and their soldiers getting killed and injured while operating in the field. MIP asked “Eastern command to stay connected with their soldiers deployed in the field and not to tweet wishfully and blindly sitting in their comfortable office hundreds of miles away from the actual battle scene.”
MIP said that the “IA Hq was also unaware of the fact that their soldiers had illegally trekked more than two hours deep into Myanmar and in the process had side-trekked the first two frontier villages from India side, Khammoi and Loji and had already reached the outskirt of the third frontier village Langkho from where they were halted, killed, injured and repulsed by the Naga Army.” MIP said “PRO, Lt. Col. Suneet Newton’s desperate rebuttal attempting to legitimise their blind claim by disowning Isak Sumi as NIA’s most wanted do not change the reality how their soldiers died, injured and suffered deep inside Naga Army’s territory on September 27.”
It has therefore asked the Indian Army’s higher authorities to ascertain the fact that Langkho village was nowhere near the so claimed Indo-Myanmar artificial international boundary but beyond several frontier villages. Meanwhile, MIP said it also noted that “while the Indian Army tries to derogate and undermine the Nagas as terrorists, they admitted to CNN, News 18 that after Pakistan, India is targeting the Nagas.”
This, MIP said clearly proved “India’s hypocrisy and their natural notion of suppressing Nagas as separate people and nation…”