‘Nagas Don’t Trust New Delhi’- Yung Aung, NSCN(K) chairman
News Desk
NSCN (K) chairman Yung Aung said that the Nagas don’t trust New Delhi, while he thanked the other neighboring countries for providing assistance and “moral support” to the separatist movement.
Yung Aung, chairman of the insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagaland’s Khaplang faction (NSCN-K) talked about the future of Nagaland, the crackdown by Indian and Myanmar armies.
His statements come at a time when the National Socialist Council of Nagaland [Isak-Muivah] (NSCN-IM), which is the dominant faction of the NSCN, has agreed to talks with the government.
Aung joined the NSCN-K in the late 1990s, when it had signed a ceasefire agreement with the Indian government. But in 2015, SS Khaplang, the group’s founder, unilaterally ended the ceasefire and backed out from peace talks. Aung remained one of Khaplang’s most devoted allies and also became close with Paresh Baruah, the commander-in-chief of the banned United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent).
With Baruah’s help, Aung reportedly received training in weapons and intelligence. Last year, the (NSCN-K) elected him its new chief to replace Chairman Khango Konyak.
This charismatic leader of NSCN (K) says, ‘the Nagas don’t trust New Delhi, while he thanked the other countries for providing assistance and “moral support” to the separatist movement’.
Yung Aung thinks that so long as both colonial countries (India and Myanmar) continued to dominate our country, fighting is inevitable. They will continue the fight till their goal is accomplished. They cannot prevent their joint political and military operations, because it is their only option to completely annihilate their struggle. But that doesn’t mean that NSCN will be weakened. In fact, they are more strengthened than ever. As long as they have right and the people’s support, no force on Earth can stop them.
Yung Aung expressed that the whole world is watching their issue closely. Since the 1980s, thousands of Nagas have ‘sacrificed’ themselves for this struggle. But nowadays, due to globalization, the mindsets of new generation have been changed.
The Nagas held a survey in 1951 where 99 per cent opted for complete independence. They also boycotted the first Indian Election of 1952. The Nagas refused to be included in Burma’s Panglong Agreement of 1947 and also refused to be included in the Union.