Dimapur, April 24 : The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) today met in an emergency meeting with all its federal and subordinate organizations and has decided to launch ‘a severe course of action’ if the Assam Rifles do not withdraw army personnel deputed around designated camps of the Naga underground groups in all the Naga inhabited areas.
The army personnel are to withdraw from around the designated camps within 24 hours with immediate effect from April 24, from 6:00 pm, a statement form the NSF informed today. The NSF did not specify what ‘severe course of action’ it meant.
The NSF said that the Assam Rifles have been violating the Ceasefire ground rules “on many occasions and this is not the first instance.” The organization questions the Indian military’s integrity “for their carrot and stick policies towards the Nagas with their “unqualifying motto of ‘Friends of the Hill People.’”
“The federation while reminding the Assam Rifles for their ever betraying nature and atrocious treatment towards the Nagas on many major occasions like the Oinam incident of 1987, Mokokchung incident in September 1994, Akuluto incident and Kohima incidence of 1995, shall no more tolerate any illegitimate action of Assam Rifles,” the NSF said.