Close on the heels of NSCN(I-M) chairman Issac Chishi Swu's reiteration for his group's desire for the highest level meet with top leaders of other groups, NSCN(K) and NNC/FGN asserted that such a summit was not possible until "military offensive and territorial expansion mission" in Eastern Nagaland (Naga inhabited areas of Myanmar) are called off by NSCN(I-M).
Two groups of NSCN and NNC/FGN had signed the Covenant of Re-conciliation (CoR) in June 2009 in Thailand at the initiative of Forum for Naga Re-conciliation (FNR) and as part of the on-going peace and re-conciliation process, the FNR was trying to arrange a highest level meeting among top leaders of the three signatories for which Chishi has arrived in Nagaland.
In a joint statement here, the two signatories said that while the proposed highest level summit was supposed to be the most awaited event and perhaps the most decisive one, the NSCN(I-M) cadres led by a commander launched an offensive against NSCN(K) in Eastern Myanmar last month.
Claiming that NSCN(K) and NNC/FGN top leadership were making all necessary arrangements to facilitate their respective chiefs', S S Khaplang and S Singnya’s safe arrival for the proposed summit, the date for which was yet to be fixed, the statement regretted to inform the Naga public that that they would not be participating in the highest level meeting till the NSCN (IM) stopped its offensive.
"It is their ( Khaplang and Singnya) appeal that the highest level summit be deferred until military offensive and territorial expansion missions are called off by NSCN (IM)," the joint statement said.
The statement alleged that brushing aside the Covenant of Reconciliation and the FNR's appeals, in the first week of February 2011, NSCN (IM) dispatched a large number of its military to Eastern Nagaland to intercept and prevent Khaplang and Singnya's possible journey to Nagaland.
While appreciating Isak Chishi Swu's call for reconciliation through local media, it said that the arrival of NSCN(I-M) cadres in eastern Naga homeland nearly a month back and their military offensive motives could not be ignored.
"To those who genuinely cherish peace and reconciliation in Naga homeland, it is unthinkable to preach reconciliation in one part of Naga homeland and allow innocent blood to flow in another," the statement said.
"Chairman S S Khaplang and Kedahke Brig.(Retd) S Singnya, the two signatories of the CoR, despite the on-going military operation in eastern Nagaland by IM, believes that at an opportune time and hour, the will of the Naga people will come to the fore," it stated.
Meanwhile, expressing serious concern over the plight of Naga villagers across the border, Eastern Naga Students’ Association (ENSA) has appealed to both the NSCN groups to cease all kinds of offensive against each other.
Condemning the on-going factional clashes between two groups in Eastern Nagaland, the ENSA in a statement received here said that many precious lives were lost during the gun battle and many innocent villages were harassed and tortured by both the faction by ordering them to move out from their villages even during this peak season of seeds sowing in the fields.
ENSA president Michael Kaita said it was unfortunate on the part of the "Naga national workers to display their bitterness within the Naga family especially in front of innocent eastern Nagas who have been whole heartedly supporting the Naga cause from the beginning of Naga national movement."
The statement said that the ENSA believed "sovereignty" cannot be achieved with factional fight, but only through unity and reconciliation among the various factions and groups of Naga people
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