IN RESPONSE to a media viral wherein a personnel of the Naga Army is purportedly engaged in selling/supplying arms to a particular party/community, this clarification is necessitated to put the matter in the right perspective.
The person, Mr. H. Khosiivei Lovingson Roah s/o Hripunii Roah of Sirong village, Spmth region enrolled in the National service on 124 of October, 2022 and finished his basic military training during the early part of this year. He is a private in the Naga Army posted at Thungbo Brigade. On the 7″ of August, 2023 he was granted medical leave for ear infection and sent to Dimapur but he went missing since then. According to his Commander he is a habitual liar and of doubtful integrity- a combination of character unbecoming of a soldier. One evident is, he was never posted as a detail to Maj. Gen. Elijah Khamrang-MSM, MC as claimed.
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The Video clip is an evidently pre-planned and scripted production of some mischievous agency aiming at furthering the mayhem and also pain the NSC in the bad light. It is simply beyond credible sense that a mere rookie private soldier on leave could have access to such illicit arms dealing unless he has premeditated action plan in collusion with the Indian security forces/Agency.
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Naga Army has military units all over Nagalim with well defined geographical jurisdiction and area of operation. Any military matter at any given location is handled by the concerned Commander of the area with the sanction of the GHQ, and no officer can take any matter in his own hand, least of all a private soldier on leave.
This is a cheap propaganda stunt of the adversary pure and simple.
(Director PIB, Naga Army, published on August 18, 2023)
The Naga Army clarification is followed by MIP, NSCN/GPRN
This is in response to the video viral wherein personnel of the Naga Army purportedly engaged in selling/supplying arms to a particular party/ community. The person seen in the viral video is H. Khosiivei Lovingson Road, S/o Hriipunii Road of Sirong village, Shepoumaramth Region. He joined Naga national service on 12th October, 2022 and done his basic military training during the early part of 2023. He was then posted at Thungbo Brigade, Naga Army as private.
On 7th of August, 2023, he was granted medical leave for ear infection and sent to Dimapur but went missing since then. He surfaced through this viral video floating in social medias.
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According to his commander he proved himself a dubious character, a habitual liar and violating the integrity of a soldier.
Any layman on the street will understand that there is something cold and sinister about the video clip. The video is evidently a premeditated and pre-planned aimed at provoking communal antagonism and force the hypersensitive situation descends into mayhem by creating hostile environment among the communities and thereby portrays NSCN in bad light. Simply put, it is beyond credible sense that a mere rookie private soldier on leave could have access to such illicit arms dealings unless he has premeditated action plan in collusion with the Indian security forces/agency.
Naga Army handled its armoury or any military related matter with the crash tested security systems where no officer other than the concerned commander of the unit/area has access to it, least of all a mere private soldier.
All said and done, this video viral is nothing but the work of a bunch of “war-mongers”.
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