Sumi Hoho (SH) delegation who met several NSCN (K) senior functionaries including its chairman, SS Khaplang in Myanmar’s Taga region, appealed to them to “take positive steps through peaceful means in the larger interest of the Naga people.”
A four-member Sumi Hoho delegation along with others undertook a nine-day “courtesy and goodwill” visit to NSCK (K) Council Headquarters (CHQ) at Taga, Myanmar from February 15-23, 2016.
During the meeting, both the sides held a through deliberation and positively sought for “right direction at the right time”.
Two senior civil and military leaders– NSCN (K), Naga Army commander-in-chief (C-in-C) ‘gen.’ Khumchok and defense kilonser Sangkhanchu also met the SH delegation.
Khumchok told the SH delegation that the NSCN (K) stood for “independence and sovereignty irrespective of region or political boundary (s) including both Indian union and Burmese/Myanmar territory”.
He said that the Shillong Accord battered the Naga Rights and maintained that, “August 3 Framework Agreement was just a surrender and compromise of Naga rights and sovereignty”.
Defense kilonser Sangkhanchu, lauded the initiative taken by Sümi Hoho to meet them and termed it as ‘historic’ and also the visit of the Naga Mothers’ Association earlier.
With regard to the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Myanmar, Sangkhanchu maintained that the “NSCN (K) government did not participate in the talks or signed the ceasefire since it was against and anti-Naga revolutionary movement”.
He also highlighted the policy, history and the contemporary political development of the Myanmar government/the Military Junta and transition of democracy and maintained that, “it will be a very crucial factor in determining the Naga Struggle and we are anticipating for the positive outcomes arising out of it”.
He further requested and appealed SH to convey the message of “brotherhood and revolutionary spirit to the other NSCN groups (IM and KK) not to wage offensive against ourselves or fall prey to the common enemy”.
Further, Sangkhanchu also apprised the SH team about the formation of the United National Liberation Front of Western South-East Asia (UNLFWSEA) under the leadership of SS Khaplang.