DIMAPUR, July 9 ? NSCN-K today said that a top brass of the NSCN-IM was involved in the July 1 border incident in which an executive magistrate of Diphu was shot dead. Both the factions of NSCN are at loggerheads with one another and a decade-old hit-and-run battle is continuing between the two aimed at crushing the other.
?It is very clear that the NSCN-IM is not involved in the recent Assam-Nagaland border incident but AZ Jami, secretary of the steering committee of the organization (NSCN-IM) has used his office and his boys in dismantling the security of Assam and killing of the Assam magistrate,? said Seocham Sangtam, deputy kilonser (minister) of the NSCN-K, the arch rival of the NSCN-IM.
The NSCN-K said that a letter sanctioned by AZ Jami on March 4 this year proved that the Aturkimi model village was built by one of his cousins, Nremo Avung with the support and full assistance of him (AZ Jami) and his armed cadres. Sangtam said that it should be very clear to NSCN-IM, governments of Nagaland, Assam and Government of India that if the NSCN-IM did not advocate violence ?then AZ Jami should be sanctioned a warrant of arrest for involvement in criminal actions.?